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Did Bill Gates Fire Steve Ballmer from Microsoft?

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Did Bill Gates finally get fed up with Steve Ballmer's dismal performance and crazy antics?

In my last column, I covered why Steve Ballmer needed to be fired from the CEO job at Microsoft. Well, lo and behold it happened! Not because of anything I wrote of course, but because Microsoft’s board of directors finally put their bongs down and woke up to what a disaster Ballmer has been for the company as CEO.

There’s a very interesting bit of dish over at All Things D about Steve Ballmer leaving Microsoft. According to the article, there may be more than meets the eye to his departure. Apparently, Bill Gates himself declined to continue supporting Ballmer as CEO of Microsoft.

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Comments (2)

seatex ·
Gates finally had his FIREBALLmer moment - none to soon. It is going to be interesting to see who his replacement will be.

gary_newell ·
They should hire the CEO of Yahoo. She seems to do well at spinning the truth

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