c issues on the immediate horizon — including a potentially nasty proxy fight, continued business performance declines and, perhaps most of all, that Ballmer’s leadership was becoming a very obvious lightning rod. Interestingly, Ballmer actually indicated that he had planned on staying in his letter about

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