{"id":1100,"date":"2013-08-24T00:28:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T14:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2013-08-24T03:51:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T17:51:56","slug":"steve-ballmer-to-retire-as-microsoft-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/steve-ballmer-to-retire-as-microsoft-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Ballmer to retire as Microsoft CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Ballmer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am writing to let you know that I will retire as CEO of Microsoft within the next 12 months, after a successor is chosen. There is never a perfect time for this type of transition, but now is the right time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is huge news.<\/p>\n<p>You can certainly make an argument that Steve Ballmer has been a bad CEO for Microsoft. Their recent failures in the smartphone &amp; tablet divisions were directly under his watch, as well as other product disasters like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/8\/23\/4651678\/ballmers-biggest-regret-windows-vista\" target=\"_blank\">Windows Vista<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand though, Microsoft has continued their successes in the Office, server &amp; enterprise areas, and Xbox has certainly flourished under his tenure. He made the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/19\/technology\/microsoft-profit-rises-19.html\" target=\"_blank\">company loads of money<\/a>\u2014even in a slumping PC industry\u2014and was undeniably a CEO that lived and breathed everything Microsoft represented (for better or worse).<\/p>\n<p>The real question when the dust settles will be&#8230; who can possibly fill Ballmer&#8217;s shoes? Right now, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/microsofts-next-ceo-whos-on-the-short-list-7000019798\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Jo Foley money is on Tony Bates<\/a>, the current Microsoft VP of Business Development, Strategy and Evangelism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steve Ballmer: I am writing to let you know that I will retire as CEO of Microsoft within&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}