At the very top of the ranks at Microsoft sits the world's scariest man, Steve Ballmer. The dude is f*cking freaky, no question. In the past he has scared the sh*t out of me from a distance at press conferences. Just his existence gives me the creeps sometimes. For this reason alone I think he should step down. I feel like he would be a good franchise manager for a local cluster of Cold Stone Creamery locations or something. 

Others have more solid reasons to ask the Microsoft CEO to step down. Hedge fund manager David Einhorn was the first to call Ballmer down, saying that he needs to leave and "give someone else a chance." 

"His continued presence is the biggest overhang on Microsoft's stock," Einhorn said at a investment research conference. His company owns 9 million MS shares.

GI points out that IBM overtook Microsoft in market value for the first time in 15 years. And now Apple is the biggest tech company in the US. Things were better when Bill Gates was boss. He was just nerdy, not scary.

http://www.destructoid.com/microsoft-s-steve-ballmer-being-called-to-step-down-202064.phtml

Man this guy is on a roll today.

First he buys a $200M minority share in my New York Mets (About 40% or so of the team from what I hear) and now I find out he wants Ballmer to step down. O_o

Anyways, what % do you think his 9M shares equals out to? Is his voice loud enough to get things moving?

Of course nobody thinks this will happen in the short term, I see his 9M shares only equate to about 0.1% of the company, but this writer believes that Einhorn may be wanting to maybe get Sinofsky to take the helm.

http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/investor-calls-ballmers-head-who-will-replace-him-326?page=0,0

I like Ballmer. Lots of enthusiasm!!

Regardless of where Microsoft have gone in the past, I think Ballmer is taking them in a great direction now. Their focus on new ways to interact with technology is one I like very much, and consumers are showing their support for it too, at least with Kinect.

So rock on Microsoft!

Who is David Einhorn?

Finkle is Einhorn.

KILL IT WITH FIRE!

Apparently he's important enough to get the main headline at Yahoo Finance:

http://finance.yahoo.com/

Microsoft Shares Rise After Einhorn Blasts CEO

omg that's terrible