Ballmer ousts Microsoft server chief Muglia

Longtime Microsoft executive Bob Muglia, president of the company's server and tools business, will step down from his position later this year, according to a Steve Ballmer memo issued Monday to company employees.

Muglia will continue to run the STB (Server and Tools Business) while his replacement is found, Ballmer wrote. He will step down "this summer," according to Ballmer, which means his departure should happen sometime between June and August.

In the memo, Ballmer touted Muglia's considerable accomplishment of building the STB into a $15 billion-a-year business, though he alluded that someone else may have been needed to handle the division going forward.