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November 16, 2013 05:32 am GMT
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Interview Confirms Ballmer Wasn't Fired, But His Exit Was Accelerated
Microsoft 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.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/pf84nQJo8Ow/
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