Kara Swisher: ‘Microsoft CEO Selection Unlikely to Come in January’

Kara Swisher, writing for Recode:

Gates is a key player in the CEO search, despite the high profile of another director, John Thompson, who is heading the search process. “This is a Gates search, even though the board is very involved,” said one source with knowledge of the situation. “But nothing is going to happen without him, especially since he will be much more involved in the company going forward.”

If he’s going to be “much more involved”, Gates should just take the job himself. Otherwise, he should be much less involved, and let the new CEO run the company.

★ Wednesday, 8 January 2014