It was only a few months ago that former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop was seen as a prime candidate to take over for outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer at Microsoft. But as ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley writes, two major events conspired to quickly take Elop out of the running. In the first place, Elop’s departure from […]
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is preparing to retire from the software giant in the coming months, and ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley has interviewed Ballmer and a number of current and former Microsoft executives for Fortune magazine to provide what’s expected to be Ballmer’s final press interview as CEO. The bet on Xbox may have cost Microsoft billions […]
Microsofts on the threshold of something big — something thats likely to make its three major operating systems even more similar. Queen of Microsoft leaks Mary Jo Foley has caught word from some unnamed contacts that the next major update to the Windows family is codenamed Threshold. That name comes from an internal email from […]
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