Microsoft Narrows Down CEO Shortlist: Elop, Mulally, Bates, Nadella In Mix

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday November 6, 2013 @04:31AM from the surprise-surprise-elop-wins dept.

rjmarvin writes "Sources have confirmed that Microsoft has narrowed down its search for its next CEO to five external candidates and at least two internal candidates. Rumored frontrunner Stephen Elop, former Nokia CEO, and Ford Motor CEO Alan Mulally are reportedly in contention, along with Microsoft's Skype head Tony Bates and their cloud and enterprise chief Satya Nadella. The other external candidates who've emerged from the approximately 40 rumored names swirling around since August have not yet been revealed."

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Re:Is this some kind of Miss World contest? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-11-06 04:40 · Score: 5, Funny

First they must be able to pull the chair from the sacred stone, if they can toss it in Google's direction they become CEO
Re:Those that know ... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-11-06 05:35 · Score: 5, Funny

I think dead Steve Jobs would do a better job than any of those.