Comments on: In 7 Days, Bill Gates Leaves Microsoft in Flux. What’s Next?

By: tarusjulius

tarusjulius — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:53:24 +0000

thanks mr Gates your teaching impress me, your character and advise, may God bless you

By: triyono Budi santoso

triyono Budi santoso — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:03:37 +0000

I love Bill Gates and owe him a lot..so I think I am sending this message speacially for him and hopefully he can access this message soon. Anyway this business is not bad for me. I am doing this too. Windows are needed eventhough Linux has come to us…. Thanks a lot….

By: Alan McRae

Alan McRae — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:26:06 +0000

Evolving some Windows O/S flavors that have an improved security architecture is clearly in eveyones long-term best interests. Discontinuing availability of a mainstream workhorse flavor like Windows XP is a huge disservice to the computing community. Just when many SMB’s are starting to experiment with server & desktop virtualization, forcing everyone to try to get their legacy apps to run on Vista & Server 2008 is annoyingly opportunistic. Making analysts quarterly forecasts by coercive marketing tactics is, in the long run, going to cause many CIO’s to explore open source options that they might have preferred not to even consider awhile ago. Bad will, like good will, is cumulative…

By: theWild1

theWild1 — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:35:01 +0000

Maybe a breath of fresh air is what Microsoft will need. It will be interesting to see what happens with the stock in the days surrounding.

By: Drea

Drea — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:52:26 +0000

Mike–Good point. I would argue that others perceived M$ as scary well into the early 2000s, whether it was objectively scary or not. For example, I remember Google’s Eric Schmidt making several references to wanting to take MS down around 2003.

William–Good catch. I think he was official CEO for 22 years…but definitely with MS before that.

Ray–I couldn’t find any information stating that the foundation currently has that amount in assets. Thus, I used the numbers listed at the end of 2007.

Greg–I wonder what they’re going to do? A new, charismatic exec might not be a bad idea…

By: William Bingham

William Bingham — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:08:01 +0000

Additional correction. If the picture caption is correct, then Gates has been with Microsoft atleast 25 Years.. (or he’s gone already..)

By: Greg Glockner

Greg Glockner — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:53:24 +0000

Drea: The problem isn’t limited to Microsoft. Any company that has an iconic founder/leader – Apple, Berkshire Hathaway, Virgin – is going to have a difficult time replacing the leader. Remember when Steve Jobs was kicked out of Apple in the 90s? Steve Ballmer is no Bill Gates, and I fear that that won’t be good for Microsoft.

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:46:44 +0000

Correction – The foundation boasts $44.7 Billion in assets

By: stock market blog

stock market blog — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:43:29 +0000

Saudi Arabia has already boosted its production by 300,000 barrels a day, or about 3 percent, to 9.45 million barrels a day last month. But that has had little impact on soaring prices. Oil futures in New York have gained more than 40 percent this year. They rose 2 percent to $134.62 a barrel before the meeting on Friday. very interesting: Will the market implode or rally?? http://www.wallstreetjournal.com/story/market_implode_or_rally?

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:01:22 +0000

Drea,

Microsoft hasn’t been scary for a while. Gates had the entire PC marketplace figured out back in 1989, but seems to have gotten stuck in that “own the platform” mindset and Microsoft hasn’t been the same since.

Mike