Ballmer sets a new (and potentially much later) retirement date
Last time CEO Steve Ballmer offered a tentative timeframe as to when he might retire from Microsoft, he put the date at ten years or so from now (around the time his youngest goes to college).
But now there’s a new date. And Ballmer may be sticking around a lot longer than many are thinking, or, in some cases, hoping.
According to scuttelbutt from Microsoft’s annual employee meeting, which was held in Seattle on September 18, Ballmer told attendees that he is going to stay on at Microsoft until Microsoft’s search share exceeds Google’s. Ballmer’s retirement reference is in the comments section of a new blog post on the company meeting by Mini-Microsoft.
