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Microsoft board set to meet this weekend—just not during Super Bowl—with CEO choice coming next week

Satya Nadella speaks during a Microsoft Search Summit event in San Francisco, California, Dec. 15, 2010.
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According to numerous sources, the board of Microsoft will be meeting sometime this weekend to begin its longish process of voting in its new CEO, which is likely to be enterprise head Satya Nadella.

One thing that will interrupt is the Super Bowl, which is apparently some big football game that is important to the Seattle area where the software giant is headquartered.

Read the whole story at Re/code.

By Kara Swisher, recode.net.

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