Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 19th Jun 2006 18:18 UTC
Now that Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates has started his two-year goodbye from a day-to-day role at the company, it's time for CEO Steve Ballmer to set a resignation date, too. Since Gates stepped down as CEO in 2000 in favor of Ballmer, the company has floundered technically and strategically. As the company's chairman, chief software architect and supposed visionary, Gates deserves blame for missing the wave of Web-based software that has propelled Google and Yahoo. But Ballmer has made gaffes of his own in his longtime role as head of the company's business side. In addition, Microsoft has started a wiki-like thing to allow its employees to ventilate ideas to the higher echelons of the company.
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2006-01-03
"BTW, I'd love to see gates invest in helping america's youth. They are millions of children in america's lower class that don't have enough to eat while the majority is fat off cakes and cookies and nobody seems to care "
Sorry; that cause has less PR value than helping the third world. The Gates Foundation is mostly about creating that phony aura of philanthropy. Note how it came to prominance during the MSFT antitrust trial (That trial really irked me: the govt. nailed MSFT to the wall and then the GOP all-corruption party comes in and lets campaign-donor Gates off with a slap on the wrist!)