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Microsoft: The King Is Dead; Long Live the King

Posted by brideoflinux on · 6 comments
FOSS Force; By Christine Hall 		Mail this story
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So we don’t have Steve Ballmer to kick around anymore. The buffoon is gone. He’s out the door, replaced by Satya Nadella, a 46 or 47 year old geek from India who spent 22 years rising through the ranks at Microsoft to capture Redmond’s top prize as CEO. His starting salary in his new position will be $1.2 million. Nice work if you can get it, eh?

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Comments (6)

maxxedout ·
I wonder if he will be as deceitful as the last two that held this position.

I noticed that Bill is back to help with the break-in period.
montezuma ·
Microsoft? I vaguely remember that they were relevant once............................
Steven_Rosenber ·
As long as the free-OS community keeps its eye on UEFI Secure Boot and starts focusing on opening up ARM devices to alternative OSes, we should be OK.

MS should probably be more worried about Google crushing it.
jdixon ·
Hmm. A communication error occurred: "Connection refused".

It was working last night. :( I thought the picture made him look like a Bond villain. The only thing missing is the cat.
brideoflinux Story submitter ·
@jdixon FOSS Force is down right now. Has been for several hours. The tech guys and gals with our host is working on it right now. It appears, though I'm not sure, that the outage is affecting all of the VPS's on the server.
the_doctor ·
Microsoft CEO = Microsoft scapegoat. But at least the pay is good.

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