“Microsoft’s annual meeting of shareholders in Bellevue this morning opened with a surprise — Bill Gates, Microsoft’s chairman, who has been largely silent at these meetings in recent years, took the stage at the outset to address the shareholders on topics including Microsoft’s future prospects and its CEO search,” Todd Bishop reports for GeekWire.
“‘We’re pleased with the progress,’ Gates said of the hunt for a new CEO,” Bishop reports. “‘In fact, we met last night and talked a lot about where we are.'”
“He spoke about Steve Ballmer’s tenure in the role, and the challenges of the Microsoft CEO’s position. He paused and started to choke up for just a moment, before he concluded,” Bishop reports. “He said of Ballmer and himself, ‘We share a commitment that Microsoft will succeed as a company that makes the world a better place.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: Bellevue. How very appropriate.
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