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Ballmer to Retire as Microsoft’s Chief

Steve Ballmer, who succeeded Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates as chief executive of the company in 2000, will retire within the next 12 months, the software giant said Friday.


http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/23...fts-chief/

Good riddance.

I wonder whether Gates had picked him up as the successor just to demonstrate the difference