Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was pushed to retire early

This time next year, Steve Ballmer will no longer be the CEO of the world’s largest software company. The widely criticized executive announced last week that he planned to retire from his role as Microsoft’s chief within the next year, and he penned a heartfelt letter to Microsoft employees as part of the announcement. While the maligned Microsoft boss said in interviews that the decision to leave was his, a new report from AllThingsD’s always reliable Kara Swisher paints a different picture of Ballmer’s departure. Swisher says she interviewed dozens of people inside Microsoft and close to the company, and they say the Ballmer’s imminent retirement was “neither planned nor as smooth as portrayed” by Microsoft or by Ballmer in



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