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November 16, 2013 05:32 am GMT

Interview Confirms Ballmer Wasn't Fired, But His Exit Was Accelerated

2013-11-15_15h58_26Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was not forced out of his role at the company, but its board did hasten his exit, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, whose sources include Ballmer himself, as well as a number of his lieutenants. Ballmer's exit was not a firing over the painful reported a $900 million chargerelatedto the Surface tablet line that was recorded earlier this year.That's a polite way of saying that Microsoft grossly overestimated demand for its new devices and lost a bundle in the process.

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