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Bill Gates Doesn't Work At Microsoft Anymore
itwbennett writes "The recent Fortune article on Bill Gates' post-Microsoft life made one thing very clear to blogger Steven Vaughan-Nichols: 'Bill Gates was, and still is, the face of Microsoft. What Microsoft doesn't want you to know though is that Gates has almost nothing to do with the company anymore.' The fact is that Microsoft doesn't want to draw attention to Gates' absence because the company 'has been tanking in recent years,' says Vaughan-Nichols. 'While Microsoft's last quarter was far better than it was a year ago, thanks largely to Windows 7 finally picking up steam, neither Microsoft's growth nor its profits are what they were like when Gates was at the helm.'"
Microsoft is in such a bad shape, it would be good for them if people thought Bill Gates still worked there :-)
Ford is not being run by Henry Ford. Shocking news to everybody who thought that the latest version of the Model T would come out any day now.
In other news, Richard Petty Motorsports has only one race victory in the past decade. Questions of why the King hasn't been driving are unanswered.
Great. Now some Federal bureaucrat is going to read your post and the next thing you know we'll be seeing Bill Gates accepting his appointment as the Recession Czar or some such ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Isn't he still a shareholder with +50% of the shares, so he essentially still has a say anyways? I thought I heard that somewhere, but I might be mistaken. Board of directors or something. Point is, Microsoft is not without Bill's Guidance, he simply isn't dealing with the hassles that come with being CEO.
Microsoft's tanking* is completely independent of Bill's situation. They laid this path before them long long ago. You might even say it's Bill's fault they're in this mess.
*As a humorous anecdote, Tanks are a very important component to group play. I like to think of Microsoft as that big guy in the heavy armor who takes all the hits and soaks up all the damage, because it doesn't mean much to him anyways. I also think of Apple as the DPS, and if they keep critting too much with all their successful products, they'll eventually pull Aggro and end up getting all the criticism Microsoft recieves. And I think of *nix as a good healer, silently standing far away from everyone, keeping everything running nominally with their superior networking capabilities and low resource requirements. See? You can relate anything to World of Warcraft. I dare you to come up with something I can't.
Or Ballmer in a monkey suit?
Or Ballmer in a monkey suit and as a borg assimilating a chair?
Find new markets to penetrate?
Come up with a innovative product? Nah, couldn't happen...
This ain't rocket surgery.
... leave, let the company tank, then make a triumphant return! :-D
They cut off his salary, and moved him to a basement office - but that darn Gates keeps coming in! Can't a guy take a hint?
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Maybe, maybe not. Economists are still divided on that, many are predicting a double-dip too. I believe the Regan said
A recession is when your neighbor loses his job.
A depression is when you lose yours
A recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.
Assuming this to be true, there are a few possibilities
1) Recovery is not possible since JC has no job to lose
2) BO is the functional equivalent and recovery is when BO loses his job
3) Recovery is futile (after all this is an article re: Bill Gates)
Of course, the assumption may be flawed.
combine new and old markets and double-penetrate them both?
Maybe, but Ballmer will always be the chair-man of my raging heart.
combine new and old markets and double-penetrate them both?
Giggity!
If Bill is no longer "the face of Microsoft", perhaps we can change the Bill of Borg icon that's associated with Slashdot stories about Microsoft with one of Ballmer throwing a chair?
Yeah, but isn't their market share almost down to 90%? Let's face it. They're outta here..
For justice, we must go to Don Corleone
Balmer [...] assimilating a chair
Now now, we don't need any of that.
I'm not sure I want to know what you kids do with chairs these days, but where I come from chairs were for resting on, not for assimilating, or whatever it is you kids call it these days.
Hey I love my new Microsoft Kin!
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Well, he did make those commercials...
I mix metaphors like a plague of rubber.
but they lose billions annually on them so psssst, don't tell anyone who might be an investor.
LoB
"Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus
William Henry "Bill" Gates III is still retired from Microsoft.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Balmer does not assimilate chairs. I don't know what the suffix "imilate" means, but what he does with chairs is not related to the ass in any way.
Dude, I had my phone rooted in the parking lot and Cyanogenmod on it about 30 minutes after I got home. I'm sorry that you were having issues with the stock ROM but I wouldn't really know anything about that. To me, using the stock image is akin to buying a windows computer and not bothering to remove all of the trial crapware and useless docks that come with it. You wouldn't blame Microsoft for all of that crap and I don't blame Android for manufacturer's lame implementation of it either.
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