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.'"

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MS profits not gates, but win 2K and Xp act work

[cinnamon colbert]

I don't think MS profits have anything whatsoever to do with gates they have to do with the fact that MS finally got an OS that works in windows2000 SP3 and XPSP2 and later, and an office suite that works in office 2000 I was happy as a clam with my 2001 HP laptop running windows2000 and office 2000; I replaced it in 2009 because the HARDWARE broke - i would still be running that OS/office if my laptop hadn't busted a screen I'm a bit of retrogrouch (def below) but I havn't found that vista/win07/office 07 do anything whatsoever that i want. wait, thats not true: In office 2007, if you do a graph in excel with a log axis, you can have set the axis endoints to somethinhg other then a multiple of 10, eg you can scale an axis from 3 to 300, which is great for certain data retrgrouch: in bicycles, people who long for the old days (pre 1980s) when bikes were simple

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[SuperKendall]

You moderators need to catch up on your classic geek movies more.