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		johns on Jan 20, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Eric Schmidt: On April 4th I Will Step Down, Larry... Gates was CEO from the beginning of Microsoft until he became Chief Software Architect prior to his retirement. Ballmer became CEO after Gates. There was never a gap between founding and CSA where someone else was CEO of MS.

chollida1 on Jan 21, 2011 [–]

Hmm how about that, it looks like you are correct:)

I though John Shirley was the CEO for most of the 80's:)

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