One Microsoft investor calls for firing Steve Ballmer

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



Nevertheless, the board of directors of Microsoft (in particular, Bill Gates, who owns the largest stake 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.