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Microsoft Investors Call For Bill Gates To Step Down As Chairman

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pour-some-gasoline-on-it dept.

rjmarvin writes "Now that Ballmer is on his way out, flak for Microsoft's middling stock prices and lagging mobile innovation is starting to land on Bill Gates himself. Three of the company's top 20 investors are lobbying the Board of Directors, pressing Gates to step down as chairman. The stockholders believe his presence would handcuff the next CEO's ability to re-make the company with new strategies and sweeping changes. They also think Gates wields a disproportionate amount of power relative to his financial stake and day-to-day activity within the company. No word yet from Gates or the board on this internal strife."

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  1. Killing the goose that lays the golden egg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Microsoft without Bill Gates is like Apple without Steve Jobs.

    You may be able to sell pretentious faggots a new shittier cellphone, but they will hate you withing 5 years.

  2. Re: Misleading Headline by Mabhatter · · Score: -1, Troll

    But like any other EMPLOYEE, what has he done for Stockholders lately? If they are equal stockholders, what has Gates done THIS DECADE (2010's) that deserves the EXTRA money for being CEO?

    Giving help to starving kids is nice, but that's not what THEY are PAYING HIM FOR. Microsoft may be only 10% of Gates' wealth, but as CEO the company really NEEDS 100% of his time... Not 10%. That's not fair to the people holding the other 95% of the voting stock.