Are you saying “ah!! Not again!! All the magazines have written about it.. come on!!”
Well, I’m not copying any of those magazines (not wholy though). I will try to comment uniquely and hopefully will have some good responses.
Bill Gates, the father(who’s the mother?) of Windows is all set to walk out of Microsoft, retire to pursue his interets in the Gates Foundation, full time into philanthropy. One among the (should I say co-) founders of Microsoft and the man behind many inventions(?) of Microsoft, currently (still) the Chief Software Architect of Microsoft will remain to be a non-executive chairman of Microsoft, though still being the highest share holder(9% of MS) in the company.
Gates was the same person who once commented that a 640KB of mamory is what a computer can get maximum and thats a whole-a-lot of space for anyone. It might be history, but he quotes the same in many of his speeches and regrets what a fool he was to have done it.
Gates is one among a very few who saw the internet revolution well before it actually happenned. Very early in 1996, he had forseen the usage of internet to pay bills and what nots. He had forseen the extent to which web servers can be exploited to get the best of it and make technology fun and interactive.
Gates, had forseen very early (even before), the advent of tablet PCs and PDAs, what a computer could be a decade or two later. People thought he was asking for too much. Its irrelevant now to think if it was MS or who came up with the innovations. But history will remember him as one of those geniuses who made PC usable by the normal crowd.
There might be n-number of lawsuits against MS for anti-trust or what nots. But, the dominance in the market and the sheer joy that you see on children’s faces when they use the MS Paint makes u forget anything that you have against him / MS.
Gates showed what monopoly means to the market. He might be a college/high-school dropout, but he proved to the world that school education is not the ONLY way to be educated.
Though MS has made a huge net profit of year on year succesively, surely its shares have fallen down comparitively. MS has not been on the innovation spree; instead it hs always wanted to buy companies now and then and increase its porfolio of offerings. But Gates has always had lots to talk about MS and its future plans in every speech. Gates has been a source of inspiration to his (fellow) employees @ MS. He has been instrumental to grow MS from a 30 employee strenght to what it is now, > 80000 worldwide.
More has to be thought about the social responsibility that he has. The determiniation he has to achieve them. When someone asked him, what his Gates Foundation is all set to achieve, he said “Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.”
Now that he is retiring, Steve Ballmer (his old mate and current CEO of MS) and Ray Ozzie (assuming role of Chief Software Architect) will not have Bill Gates in the next cabin everyday. Though Gates wants to dedicate an equivalent a day of a week to look into MS, he surely will not be around forever.
MS has not been a major driver of innovation in the industry but for the Windows Operating System and the Office Suite. Though Gates had forseen the internet revolution, he/MS did very less to combat the competetion (latest, giving up the deal with Yahoo).
How much will MS and MS Executives miss Bill Gates?
Will Ozzie be able to fill in for Gates in his new role?
Only time will answer the above questions
Well, I’m not copying any of those magazines (not wholy though). I will try to comment uniquely and hopefully will have some good responses.
Bill Gates, the father(who’s the mother?) of Windows is all set to walk out of Microsoft, retire to pursue his interets in the Gates Foundation, full time into philanthropy. One among the (should I say co-) founders of Microsoft and the man behind many inventions(?) of Microsoft, currently (still) the Chief Software Architect of Microsoft will remain to be a non-executive chairman of Microsoft, though still being the highest share holder(9% of MS) in the company.
Gates was the same person who once commented that a 640KB of mamory is what a computer can get maximum and thats a whole-a-lot of space for anyone. It might be history, but he quotes the same in many of his speeches and regrets what a fool he was to have done it.
Gates is one among a very few who saw the internet revolution well before it actually happenned. Very early in 1996, he had forseen the usage of internet to pay bills and what nots. He had forseen the extent to which web servers can be exploited to get the best of it and make technology fun and interactive.
Gates, had forseen very early (even before), the advent of tablet PCs and PDAs, what a computer could be a decade or two later. People thought he was asking for too much. Its irrelevant now to think if it was MS or who came up with the innovations. But history will remember him as one of those geniuses who made PC usable by the normal crowd.
There might be n-number of lawsuits against MS for anti-trust or what nots. But, the dominance in the market and the sheer joy that you see on children’s faces when they use the MS Paint makes u forget anything that you have against him / MS.
Gates showed what monopoly means to the market. He might be a college/high-school dropout, but he proved to the world that school education is not the ONLY way to be educated.
Though MS has made a huge net profit of year on year succesively, surely its shares have fallen down comparitively. MS has not been on the innovation spree; instead it hs always wanted to buy companies now and then and increase its porfolio of offerings. But Gates has always had lots to talk about MS and its future plans in every speech. Gates has been a source of inspiration to his (fellow) employees @ MS. He has been instrumental to grow MS from a 30 employee strenght to what it is now, > 80000 worldwide.
More has to be thought about the social responsibility that he has. The determiniation he has to achieve them. When someone asked him, what his Gates Foundation is all set to achieve, he said “Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.”
Now that he is retiring, Steve Ballmer (his old mate and current CEO of MS) and Ray Ozzie (assuming role of Chief Software Architect) will not have Bill Gates in the next cabin everyday. Though Gates wants to dedicate an equivalent a day of a week to look into MS, he surely will not be around forever.
MS has not been a major driver of innovation in the industry but for the Windows Operating System and the Office Suite. Though Gates had forseen the internet revolution, he/MS did very less to combat the competetion (latest, giving up the deal with Yahoo).
How much will MS and MS Executives miss Bill Gates?
Will Ozzie be able to fill in for Gates in his new role?
Only time will answer the above questions
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