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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mashable:&lt;/strong&gt; Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has sold 12% of his stake in the tech giant in a transaction worth over $1.3 billion.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href="http://secfilings.com/searchresultswide.aspx?link=1&amp;amp;filingid=7540020"&gt;a filing&lt;/a&gt; with the SEC, Ballmer has sold 49.3 million Microsoft shares over the last three days, bringing his total ownership to 358.9 million shares, or approximately 4.2% of the company. Essentially, he sold 12% of his shares at a price between $26 and $28.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Microsoft CEO: next Windows release is &amp;quot;riskiest product bet&amp;quot;</title><link>https://omid.dev/2010/10/24/microsoft-ceo-next-windows-release-is-riskiest-product-bet/</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 21:49:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://omid.dev/2010/10/24/microsoft-ceo-next-windows-release-is-riskiest-product-bet/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Windows 7 might be &lt;a href="http://boelectronic.blogspot.com/2010/10/windows-7-year-one-240-million-licenses.html"&gt;selling like hotcakes&lt;/a&gt; but that&amp;rsquo;s only going to make it even harder for Microsoft to top. When asked about the riskiest product bet that the software giant is currently developing, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer answered “the next release of Windows” without so much as a second of hesitation. Unfortunately, his interviewers don&amp;rsquo;t ask him for an explanation, so we&amp;rsquo;ll have to speculate as to why he chose Windows and not something else like Windows Phone, Xbox Kinect, or Bing.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>