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 Nokia was messy to say the least. The fact that he got a $25 million payday despite overseeing a major decline in Nokia’s share value that allowed his former employer to buy it up on the cheap was a major scandal in the Finnish media. Microsoft at this point in its history would probably benefit from an uncontroversial CEO and not one who would be
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