Bill Gates to Step Aside!

[LeeRyder]

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13348456/

REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft chairman, chief software architect and co-founder Bill Gates said Thursday he plans to cut back on his work at the software giant beginning in July 2008 to spend more time on his charitable enterprises.

 

[jdk]

Interesting. Good for him to put more work into the Charitable side.

 

[NameYourself]

I'm not sure how familiar people are with his charitable side, but he gives a lot! Congrats to the man, what a model. :amen:

 

[MrDude]

Im in the UK and the computers at my local library are partly thanks to him, allthough I still think hes an asshole

 

[LeeRyder]

Goes to show, no good deed goes unpunished.

 

[jdk]

He has to be one of the hardest working individual for the amount of money he has. I know there are many scholarships for school, and MUCH more he contributes too.

 

[LeeRyder]

he is, by far..the biggest philanthroper in History.

 

[richard]

he is, by far..the biggest philanthroper in History.

Possibly in monetary terms, but don't forget who
started philanthropy off all those years ago,
Andrew Carnegie.

 

[LeeRyder]

odd, philandthropy is a greek word. Plato was knowingly a philanthropist. Carnegie... was good, but it began well before him

 

[NameYourself]

Possibly in monetary terms, but don't forget who
started philanthropy off all those years ago,
Andrew Carnegie.

Yes he did plenty good as well, but Philanthropy isn't about credit.

 

[demo]

Here is a nice video of Bill and Steve being interviewed on Channel9 developer network earlier today.

channel9.msdn.com

I've been using Bill's software since he wrote Atari Basic in 1979!

 

[petrosc]

so he's leaving huh better burn out than to fade away

 

[kiviniar]

Now there is no stopping Google...

 

[lionheartk]

I think the company can run by itself like he intended it to already...

 

[Ian]

I think the company can run by itself like he intended it to already...

whoever will succeed him has to be realy smart to beat the competition out of google and apple who are narrowing badly on microsoft. does anyone know who might take over?

 

[LeeRyder]

well I think all this "google" is taking over crap is just that, non-sense.

It's like saying that because delphi (car radio manufacturer) makes 3 billion a year more than GM, that GM is doomed.

It's a related industry, but for the most part, not a competition. The only areas where they compete directly are Search Engines (I prefer MSN personally because of better, more accurate, relevant and timely results) and contextual ads (well, soon anyways).

Google won't be making an OS in the foreseeable future...and would need 5-7 years to get it from idea to "shelves" regardless.
Despite the fact that the majority of people like Microsoft products and services and are willing to buy them, Google is however attempting to break into some of Microsoft's markets (Word as an example). But most do not trust open source, 2nd rate software... and with good cause. There is no liability factor (eg, you cannot sue someone if it breaks down massively) and once something like googles word attempt gets massive exposure, hackers and viri will target it... and without the support that Microsoft can give it's customers... who will be there for those fools using the google opensource junk?

Certainly not google.