Posted on 06/22/2008 4:33:50 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
A Harvard University dropout who ushered in the home computer age and made billions of dollars along the way will have his last official day of work at Microsoft on June 27.
Three people will essentially fill the void left behind when Bill Gates retires from the company he and friend Paul Allen co-founded in 1975.
Since Gate's began his transition from leading Microsoft to heading his personally-bankrolled charity, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , his job as chief software architect has been handled by Ray Ozzie.
Craig Mundie inherited Gate's chief research and strategy officer duties, while former Harvard classmate Steve Ballmer became chief executive officer at the Seattle-based software colossus.
Gates left Harvard after two years to found the firm that became global powerhouse Microsoft. He later received honorary degrees from Harvard and other universities.
After retiring, Gates will remain chairman of the Microsoft board of directors and its largest shareholder.
"I don't think anything is going to drastically change the day he leaves," said Matt Rosoff of the private analyst firm Directions On Microsoft............"
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Finally a name to blame Vista on: Ray Ozzie.
I always get Steve Ballmer and Paul Allen mixed up.
“Bill Gates surrendering Microsoft helm (Vista! I never heard of it!)”
Funny because hundreds of millions have and use it everyday.
Now go up and ask someone about Linux...
“Gates left Harvard after two years to found the firm that became global powerhouse Microsoft.”
I was under the impression that he was a straight A student and left in his senior year because he already had the IBM contract.
I’m not sure why people hate Vista so much. I bought a laptop with Vista about 6 months ago. I haven’t really noticed much difference between it and XP one way or another. So why the knock?
Farewell, Bill Gates
O Chief Software Architect
O BASIC programmer
O inventor of Windows, you
foisted a shoddy operating system on the world
and people ate it up without a clue.
Bastard!
“World’s Richest Man.”
That was your title.
and yet you couldn’t get a decent haircut.
I’ve read Gates spent most of his time at Harvard playing poker, and kind of cruised through his classes on autopilot.
A darn good salesman!
Jack
There is probably good reason, there always is, but for some people this is just the thing to do.
Paul Allen is the architect of the failure known a Charter Communications.
I read last year that rather than having earnings per employ, it has a loss per employee....$192,000 per employee
Ever try to access the cookies folder, so you can handle them yourself? Certain things are placed in awkward locations as opposed to where they are in XP (logical, easy to find places). Vista is extremely cumbersome and full of unneeded junk, and is still subject to easily-created hacks (viruses).
I have one XP PC and one Vista PC. The XP is much easier to maintain than the Vista one (at least for myself - a former WAN manager).
For one thing it is a resource hog... Vista needs twice the horsepower as XP to run at a good speed ,,, just as XP needs twice the power as W2K-Pro ... There is no advantage to Vista ,, it is just another “We need a new product” Product ,, just like “windows Millenium” ,I would also add that the user interface is worse than XP and I have some apps that do not run on Vista ,, could be real compatibility issues or it could be that the apps don’t recognize the OS’s name and assume they can’t run... either way I’m screwed... Then you add to the mix the p*ss poor customer service ,, the spaghetti code that is windows ,, and the general attitude at MSFT where they can break any law (stealing product after product in the 1980’s and 1990’s to add as features in DOS and windows... and then offering the codes owners a pittance in return after their companies were bankrupted) ,, Hell Gates didn’t even have a contract to resell DOS (CP/M) when he contracted with IBM ...
Ballmer sweats lot more.
Vista is Microsofts’ EDSEL, and, Microsoft needs a chief who is not riding multiple horses.
I have a new HP desktop PC that came with Vista. Is it feasible to replace Vista with a version of XP? What are the risks?
Stop whining and buy a Mac!;)
I say, I say...An awful lot of jealousy goin’ on ‘round hea’!
btt
Source, please?
If you have a home version of Vista, there is no free "downgrade" licensing path that Vista for Business licenses get. What that means is that you have to BUY a copy of XP. Then you need to be sure that XP drivers are available. If you contact HP support, you may be able to get a list of drivers to download, but some will be directly from the HW manufacturers OTHER THAN HP, which means that if something goes wrong, you're pretty much on your own. HP will NOT support a system with an OS other than the one shipped on it (at least for home users).
Finally, you could be in for a nasty surprise is your new HP uses SATA drives. You may be able to set the drive controllers to "Legacy Mode" in the BIOS setup, but if not, you will need to have a way to load the SATA drivers during the XP installation, since XP doesn't have SATA drivers built in. In simple terms this means that the XP installation may not be able to find the hard drive to install XP on.
Mark
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/whynow.mspx
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Windows Vista now supports 77,000 printers, cameras, speakers and other devices and components.
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Over 2,700 software programs are now certified to work on Windows Vista, including 98 of the top 100 consumer applications.
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62% of small business said Windows Vista saves them time, and 70% said that it makes them more productive, according to an independent survey.
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More than 140 million copies of Windows Vista have already sold, making it the fastest selling operating system in Microsoft history.
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71% of Windows Vista customers liked it better than their last operating system.
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People who are familiar with Windows Vista are two to three times more likely to have a favorable impression.
I use Vista albeit on a new Dell laptop. I am very happy with it
I remember reading somewhere he got kicked out because he was skipping too many classes running marathon poker games in the dorm.
Crap In, Crap Out.
Stop whining and buy a Mac!;)
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Why buy MAC when you can run Linux? Isn’t that the MAC OS nowadays?
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