Microsoft's leading investors require Bill Gates to resign as chairman

ByMohammad Jangda

Microsoft is the world's largest computer and software company founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and several colleagues, and it is a PC OSWindowsAnd office suite productsOfficeWe are a company that has created a lot of services that form the basis of the present information society. It seems that some major investors seem to see a move to let Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, resign from the position of chairman.

Exclusive: Time for Gates to go, some top Microsoft investors tell board | Reuters
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Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's current chief executive (CEO), has worked under the pressure of "to improve the company's performance and improve stock prices" for years, but finallyPresident announces that he will retire from the current CEO position within 12 months in August 2013. Microsoft is currently looking for a new CEO to succeed Ballmer. Meanwhile, three major shareholders (three major shareholders who own 5% or more shares of the whole) are moving in search of Gates' s chairman resignation.

Gates is the largest individual shareholder holding Microsoft stock 4.5%. When Microsoft issued the initial public offering in 1986, it owned about 49% of the total, but it handles this stock a little at a time each year, and if he goes according to plan, he will hold his holding by 2018 It is planned to be 0.

ByNiall Kennedy

If Gates's existence would inhibit or restrict the new management strategy and corporate change by the newly elected CEO, and leading shareholders seeking to resign Gates' president's job are concerned It seems to be. In particular, he points out the special role of Mr. Gates to look for Mr. Ballmer's successor (new CEO), which is why Gates thinks that Gates' authority within Microsoft will be larger It seems to be.

However, at the board meeting is a tablet terminalSurfaceAnd home fixed game machinesXboxWe are stating that we will continue to continue the strategy adopted by Mr. Ballmer, which manufactures terminals such as mobile phones and other devices and changes Microsoft's software into services offered on the Internet.

ByRoxanne Ready

Microsoft is about $ 22 billion in net profit last fiscal year and is still one of the world's most valued companies, but its core Windows OS and Office related software is being used by Apple's mobile computing I am lagging far behind the iOS device and Google's Android device, and I am also raising a sense of crisis. Recently released Office 365 may adversely affect the sales of Office and other products, Surface manufacturing and acquisition of Nokia may be an existingOEMAs it may have been to make a partner company uncomfortable, there is a possibility to endanger existing services and partners with a new management strategy, but it is also true that Microsoft is seeking some new change I can feel it.

ByMbiebusch

Some investors seem to think that Bill Gates is planning to return CEO of Bill Gates that Gates will have a greater influence on CEO than president, but Microsoft's new personnel affair and that What kind of thing will his role change in inside?