“Microsoft Corp. is closer to naming a new chief executive, according to a source familiar with the board’s thinking, but it lost a front-runner candidate on Tuesday when Ford Motor Co’s chief, Alan Mulally, said he would not be going to the software giant,” Reuters reports.
“Mulally’s comments reignited the guessing game over who will take over at Microsoft, following the elimination in December of another reported candidate, Qualcomm Inc’s Steve Mollenkopf,” Reuters reports. “Microsoft said last month it expects to appoint a new CEO early this year.”
Reuters reports, “Sources familiar with the process have told Reuters that Microsoft is down to a ‘handful’ of candidates, including one or more outsiders from the tech industry, former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop and insiders Satya Nadella and Tony Bates.”
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MacDailyNews Take: We wholeheartedly endorse Stephen Elop!
Please Please let it be Stephen Flop…. we want microsoft to continue to be a great circus.
Have a duo like BB. Lloyd and Harry will be perfect CEO’s!
Why not go “Classic” Microsoft and get Bill Gates back. That is what Dell did before they had to close the doors and go private again.
You mean GTMBTTS.
It’s so going to be Elop. I reckon the whole reason he was outsourced to Nokia was to bring them into the Redmond fold, so having completed his mission he’ll be rewarded.
Only one reason why Mullaly “pulled out”. He became aware he was no longer under consideration for the job. Frankly, if I were him, I would have given Microsoft a few weeks to decide and then walked on my own. Mullaly now looks a little foolish leaving his name in play all of the time.
Yeah but how do you go “Da da da daaaaa! Ladies and Gentleman our new CEO, direct from his failed leadership engagement at Nokia, Microsoft’s new CEO – STEPHEN ELOP!!!” “Elop, Elop, Elop…” with a straight face and have the business world say or think anything but “O… M…. G… we are doomed.” Not to mention a sudden rash of suicides in Redmond, WA.
If the teleprompter goes down, they could just ad lib with Elop’s anaface score.
Elop – Ballmer 2.0. I second MDN’s motion.
Is it Clippy?
Elop would be named “Another Steve”…
Thorsten Heins! Thorsten Heins!
Thurston Howell, Thurston Howell, Thurston Howell the third three times!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZaDpLAcrRw
“Microsoft close to naming CEO”
If it’s a boy I think they should name him Thor.
If it’s a girl, Matilda would be good.
Romulus and Remus would be great names for twins!
I wish they choose Steve Ballmer all over again to be CEO of microsoft, after all he won’t need induction and getting familiar with MS, and the monkey stage dance, or having “Machine Gun Kelly” perform concerts 😆
I have it on good authority that the last three candidates are, in no particular order, Larry, Moe and Curly Joe.
Why just one? Triumvirate?
I glad Alfred E. Newman is already under contract.
“What, me worry?”
Perfect!
Wouldn’t tearing off your own testicles be a more rewarding task than taking over Microsoft?
Let me do the job, and I will ruin the company even faster than they can do alone.
Heidi Klum – anything Yahoo can do, Redmond can copy……..
I hear the guys at Blackbury may be available soon. Balsillie anyone?