Some had tipped Tami Reller, head of finance at Microsoft's Windows division, to replace Mr Klein.
Mr Klein's dispiriting announcement comes just weeks after Michelle Rhee stepped down as Washington, DC's chancellor.
For those countries, some standards, however modest by Mr Klein's lights, would be better than none.
Mr Klein's departure was announced just months after Steven Sinofsky, the head of Windows, quit the firm.
Mr Klein's first, and new, charge is that Microsoft initially tried to push Netscape into colluding with it.
He urged Mr Klein, to no avail, to give the industry more time to sort out the problem.
This allowed Mr Klein to avoid the political battles he would have encountered if taxpayers had paid for them.
Other provinces, such as Manitoba and Quebec, disapprove of Mr Klein's rollicking campaign.
Mr Klein, who has been with the tech giant for 11 years, is the latest in a series of executives to leave the company.
Over many months, Mr Klein's team has unearthed Microsoft documents which appear to confirm that Microsoft really did see the threat in these apocalyptic terms.
But he is less popular than the folksy Mr Klein.
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Mr Klein's earlier interventions were too late and too little.
As an appeals-court lawyer by training, Mr Klein thinks that, when matters of public policy are at stake, a settlement is no substitute for a ruling upheld by the courts.
In May, Mr Klein's government alarmed such people when it pushed through a new law allowing regional health authorities to contract out routine operations, such as hip replacements, to private clinics.
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Despite Mr Klein's misgivings, Microsoft could bring about a settlement if it took the initiative by volunteering to break itself up, perhaps into an applications company and two or three competing operating-systems companies.
According to Salon, Mr Klein cultivated links with Californian Coptic Christian Joseph Nasralla, who has been identified as president and CEO of Media for Christ, the organisation alleged to have produced the film.
As well as hoping to persuade Judge Jackson that a break-up would re-establish competition and have the great merit of being self-policing, Mr Klein is eager to see conduct remedies put in place now, which is within the court's power.
How Mr. Klein became a fixer at News Corp. partly reflects his importance in the eyes of Mr. Murdoch, who views education technology and the reform-minded Mr. Klein as vehicles to both profits and a legacy as an agent of change in the U.S. education system.
Mr. Murdoch subsequently formalized Mr. Klein's role at the center of the response to the crisis, announcing that he had selected the former education reformer to "provide important oversight and guidance" and that Mr. Klein, along with News Corp. board member Viet Dinh, would keep the board apprised.
Mr. Klein supports Mr. Cuomo's efforts on abortion but can't bring the bill to the floor without Mr. Skelos's assent.
The committee will report to Mr. Klein, who in turn will report to Mr. Dinh.
Perhaps nobody has risen more quickly in the News Corp. hierarchy than Mr. Klein.
The contract expired more than a year ago, and talks hit an impasse under Mr. Klein.
"Education is the one industry where innovation has been missing, " Mr. Klein said in an interview.
Mr. Klein is an Israeli journalist who covers military and intelligence affairs for Time magazine's Jerusalem bureau.
Mr. Klein says CommonBond is in talks with other business schools and may branch out beyond M.
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