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Steve Ballmer the best Microsoft CEO candidate?  Summary: What
if the best CEO for Microsoft turned out to be the one it
already has? Ballmer has the experience, guts, and passion to
succeed.  While there was nary a tear shed when Ballmer
announced his impending retirement, after three months hearing
about proposed CEO candidates, it begs the question, what if
Ballmer actually was the best choice?  Aside from his in-depth
knowledge of the Microsoft machine, with a record quarter just
reported, is Steve's strategy finally paying off? He's shown
tenacity, pouring money into Xbox, Bing, and hardware; grown the
enterprise business, made some gutsy (and/or insane)
acquisitions, and put Microsoft into the fight on many fronts.
Certainly he has his detractors--Microsoft executed poorly on
mobile, has a cutthroat internal political culture (stack rank),
and has been slow to get its talented technical teams to work
together. Perhaps a rebuked and humble