Microsoft CEO to go in 2010?

Is it end of the road for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer? So predicts NewWeek magazine. In its tech predictions for 2010, Newsweek has forecasted that Microsoft will oust Ballmer during his 10th year as chief executive.
According to the magazine Ballmer led Microsoft into a decade of failures, set up by the Windows Vista fiasco. While he was distracted by poor reception of the operating system, Newsweek argues, Microsoft’s other businesses lost direction.

NewsWeek writes, "Microsoft stock has dropped by nearly 50 per cent on his watch, lagging not just other tech companies but even the Dow Jones industrial average. Distracted by the Windows Vista fiasco, Ballmer has missed every big new tech market of the past decade."
Adds NewsWeek, "Google won the race for Internet search and keyword advertising. Apple won in MP3 players and online music sales, and now holds the high ground in mobile phones, while Windows Mobile fades away. Microsoft’s Zune music player is a dud. Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, will never catch Google." READ MORE…

• Microsoft strikes Web search deal with Sun Microsystems
• Google to cut 200 jobs
• Microsoft criticizes employee for Apple remarks
• CBI arrests MD of software company for piracy
• How to boost Windows XP performance
• Microsoft shares super cheap
• Intel layoffs cause H1-B backlash
• Google is hiring, even after layoffs
• Pink slips to H-1B visa holders too: Microsoft
• Microsoft goes black, Chinese see red