One Microsoft investor calls for firing Steve Ballmer

On May 25 at the Ira Sohn Investment Research conference, David Einhorn, who is the head of Greenlight Capital and a Microsoft investor, called on Microsoft shareholders to remove Steve Ballmer from the post of CEO of the company because “the company is stuck in the past and you need to give someone else the opportunity to manage the company ". Apparently this is due to the fact that not so long ago, IBM bypassed Microsoft in terms of capitalization and because of this, instead of the $ 100,000 that he invested in the company's shares, David would receive only $ 69,000.

Nevertheless, the Microsoft Board of Directors (in particular, Bill Gates, who owns the largest shareholding and is the only person with the right to dismiss the CEO of the company) supports Steve Ballmer in this situation and is not going to dismiss him.