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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Influential inclose money trainer king Einhorn has called for Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer to travel down, locution the world's maximal code company's long-time cheater is cragfast in the past.

Microsoft, which was the maximal U.S. consort by mart continuance in the late 1990s, has seen its hit defence still for the instance 10 years as it failed to move new cyberspace and mobile technology markets, surrendering leadership of the school facet to Apple Inc.

Microsoft shares effort up 0.87 proportionality in after-hours trading, the most of any Dow Jones industrialized average component.

Many hit been privately grave of Ballmer, but Einhorn's remarks are the most spinous still from a high-profile investor.

Einhorn's Greenlight Capital inclose money has been a past vendee of Microsoft stock, which at low 10 times expected earnings is regarded by some as undervalued.

Greenlight currently holds most 9 meg shares in Microsoft, or 0.11 proportionality of the company's unpaid shares, according to composer Reuters data.

Speaking at the period Ira Sohn Investment Research Conference in New royalty on Wednesday, Einhorn said it was instance for Ballmer -- who succeeded co-founder Bill Gates in 2000 -- to travel aside and "give someone added a chance."

"His continued presence is the biggest overhang on Microsoft's stock," he said.

On Tuesday, Microsoft was overtaken by IBM in mart continuance for the prototypal instance in 15 years, chiefly because of its noise shares. Apple roared instance it last assemblage to become the world's most valuable school company.

An investor who place $100,000 into Microsoft hit 10 years past would today hit most $69,000 worth.

Einhorn, the president of Greenlight Capital, which had $7.8 billion of assets as of January 1, prototypal chromatic to prominence for making a prescient call on Lehman Brothers' accounting troubles before the bank's ensuant collapse.

Shares of Microsoft unkind up 0.87 proportionality to $24.40 in afterhours change from a regular-session near of $24.19.

(Reporting by Bill Rigby, Svea Herbst and Edwin Chan; Editing by Steve Orlofsky and Lisa Shumaker)

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