Thursday, September 18, 2008
Ballmer Dials Up Busy Signals in Search for Microsoft Digital Head
Time waits for no man–but Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer seems to be taking an awful lot of it in picking who will head the software giant’s long-foundering digital efforts.
Two months after the departure of former top exec Kevin Johnson, most inside the company had expected Ballmer to make the most obvious internal choice of SVP Brian McAndrews. Longtime digital SVP Yusuf Medhi has been seen as the No. 2 candidate.
But many sources report that Ballmer remains more intent on hiring someone outside the company, with the idea that such a person could better re-energize Microsoft’s moribund Internet efforts and bring in a fresher perspective.
