Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th Jun 2006 22:16 UTC, submitted by DigitalDame
Bill Gates is transitioning out of his full-time role at Microsoft, the software giant that's been under pressure due to a sagging stock price, competition from Google and nagging delays in the Vista operating system. In a press conference held Thursday after the stock markets had closed for regular trading, Gates announced that over the next two years he will gradually step away from his daily responsibilities at the company he co-founded some 30 years ago.
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2006-01-01
I am not a friend of Steve Ballmer's family. I seriously doubt my abilities as a writer, so I would be reticent to be anyone's biographer. I've met with and talked to him personally on three separate occasions, and I have a few friends who work for Microsoft. I'm from the area originally, and that's where my family lives.
Why are you so simple-minded as to judge people by theatrics? Why don't you ask Paul Otellini what he was on. They're showmen. It's what they do. They sell things. It's certainly nothing I could do with a straight face.
Have you ever made any attempt to know anything about the people that are banded about like celebrities on the Internet? It's not as if Steve Ballmer's life is shrouded in mystery.