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Microsoft CFO to leave

Microsoft chief financial officer Peter Klein is leaving at the end of June after three and a half years in the post, as the world’s biggest software company struggles with sharply declining personal computer sales and a lukewarm reception for the new Windows 8 operating system.

Klein, an 11-year Microsoft veteran, is the latest in a line of top-level executives to leave the company, following Windows head Steven Sinofsky last November.

Some have questioned whether chief executive Steve Ballmer is still the right leader for Microsoft, whose shares have remained essentially flat for the last decade.