Ballmer becomes lone voice at Microsoft's helm
 

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Steve Ballmer has been CEO at Microsoft Corp for eight years, but he will finally get to move into the corner office vacated by Bill Gates (http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/gates), the college friend who brought him to the company nearly three decades ago.

The pressure of leading the world's largest software maker will only escalate in the wake of a bungled attempt to acquire Yahoo Inc, a move that forced the Web pioneer into the waiting arms of Microsoft's archrival, Google Inc.
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*Source: Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/techn...300220080629)*

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