According to numerous sources close to Microsoft, the selection of a new CEO could happen within the next week.
The effort has utterly agonized the rank-and-file, slowed a massive restructuring inside the company and exposed some serious boardroom rifts, in a search that now dragged on for more than sixth months.
Read the entire story at Re/code.
—By Kara Swisher, recode.net.
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