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http://www.nextmicrosoftceo.com/ http://www.nextmicrosoftceo.com/ presents some good candidates. However, I doubt that the first contender, Gabe Newell would le

http://www.nextmicrosoftceo.com/ http://www.nextmicrosoftceo.com/ presents some good candidates. However, I doubt that the first contender, Gabe Newell would leave Valve, and that the second-place contender, RMS, would be a good business decision.

Crito 13y ago
Of those top three, only Newell really has experience running a company, and his company is structured radically differently than Microsoft's (Ignoring the wildly different scales of the two companies, Valve has a vaguely non-hierarchical lattice-like organizational structure. I would not count on those CEO skills being transferable.) Linus can obviously manage a large project, but that in no way makes him a good fit for being the Microsoft CEO. I don't know much about the non-top three suggestions there, but the ludicious choices for the top three make me inclined to doubt them.