Steven Anthony Ballmer was born on March 24, 1956 . More known as Steve Ballmer , is a businessman and former CEO of the computer company Microsoft Corporation. The August 23, 2013 , announced that he would leave office in 12 months. Finally, on February 4, 2014 it was announced that Satya Nadella is the new CEO of the company to replace Ballmer.
Steve Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980 , he became the first business manager , replaced Bill Gates on June 27, 2008 . During the exercise of its executive mandate made several changes to Microsoft , which was the renewal of the platform mobile with Windows phone and Windows conversion on an adapted version of touch screens, at the time that tablets and smartphones became popular .
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Steve is on the annual Forbes list with a personal fortune of at least $ 15.2 billion of . It is located at number 51 of the richest people in the world according to the 2013 list of Forbes magazine .
In 2012 the same magazine enlisted the 5 worst CEOs worldwide and Steve Ballmer of Microsoft topped the list for its incompetence to run the company and the mistakes he made .
