Think you know who will replace Steve Ballmer as Microsoft's new CEO? Put your money where your mouth is.
Sports book Ladbrokes continued the European tradition of betting on well, just about anything, by offering odds on who will serve as the next chief executive of Microsoft. The current favorite? Steven Elop of Nokia, who is topping the charts at 5-to-1 odds.
The bookmaker appears to have sampled liberally from the various analyses of who could replace Ballmer, due to leave the building in at most 12 months' time. We're flattered to see that Samsung's Dale Lee, one of our outsider picks to lead the company, comes in at the middle of the pack at 20-to-1.
Who's the smart money betting on? A raft of Microsoft insiders, according to Ladbrokes. Topping the charts is Elop, who left Microsoft to run Nokia and has since forged strong ties with Microsoft and Windows Phone. But right behind Elop is current Microsoft chief operating officer Kevin Turner and the man credited (or not) with Windows 8, current venture capitalist Steven Sinofsky. Turner and Sinofsky are listed as 6-to-1 and 8-to-1, respectively.
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