As we have previously reported, Microsoft is having interviews with possible CEOs because current Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer would retire next year. Mulally is Ford CEO (also former top Boeing executive) and will remain as such until the end of 2014. According to CNN, Continue reading »
tags: Alan Mulally, Boeing, Ford, Microsoft, Steve Ballmer
As we already reported, Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer will retire by the end of next summer and he won’t get retirement payout from Microsoft. According to Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is in active hunt for new CEO and Continue reading »
tags: Alan Mulally, John W. Thompson, Mark Hurd, Microsoft, Satya nadella, Steve Ballmer, The Wall Street Journal, Tony Bates
Steve Ballmer got only $550,000 of his predicted $700,000 bonus check, because Microsoft woefully overestimated how many Surface tablets it would sell. Microsoft was forced to take $900 million hit to its earnings due to awful Surface sales. Ballmer got also last year a smaller bonus than planned. Last year Microsoft failed to provide a browser choice screen on European PCs running Windows, as required by an 2009 antitrust settlement. Ballmer will retire by the end of next summer and he won’t get a retirement payout from Microsoft, but he owns ca. 333 million shares of Microsoft. And this stake is worth almost $11,3 billion. Continue reading »
tags: Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, Surface tablet