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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Re:saturated market

[jcr]

The failure to see the rise of the netbook/tablet.

I'm not sure I'd describe it like that. Microsoft sure as hell tried to push the tablet form factor, they just sucked at it.

-jcr