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● 09.10.11

●● Carol Bartz: Her Job is Done

Posted in Microsoft, Ron Hovsepian at 7:45 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Bartz recruited to attack Google, Elop installed to bury MeeGo and sue Android with patents, Hovsepian used to attack Red Hat

Yahoo! Blog from Sunnyvale, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0Generic license (caption added by us, with Ballmer’s words)

Summary: Bartz is out, but she was a temporary pawn all along

A couple of years ago Bartz [1, 2] and Ballmer posed for the cameras in the same way Elop and Ballmer did half a year ago and Hovsepian and Ballmer did in 2006. All those handshakes were the formal handover of car keys to Ballmer. Hovsepian was emitted from his chair a few months ago, Elop plans to leave next year (according to several sources), and Bartz has just been fired (after many former Microsoft executives had been installed inside Yahoo!). It is not as bad as it sounds. Their goal was accomplished as the companies they pretended to be CEOs of were put in the hands of Microsoft.

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