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Kicked out Bill
Gates enjoys the Poison that gestated when Microsoft to be listed
Frank Oct. 6, 2013 in Waterloo, Canada
http://frank-waterloo.blog.163.com/blog/static/2052390292013924390430/
Recently, there were reports
that Microsoft investors push for chairman Gates to Step Down
after Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was pushed to retire early, such as:
1. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was pushed to retire early
2. Exclusive: Microsoft investors push for chairman Gates to step down
I think this is the Deadly Side Effect of
Microsoft to be listed has started the toxicity attack. It may be harmful for
the development of Microsoft after two experienced top leaders to be ousted.
April, 4 2013, in the article <Dividend Makes Industrious
German Lazy>, I have discussed the side effect of a
enterprises to be listed by the experience of Robert Bosch GmbH - a German
enterprise. It experienced the process of to be listed and then to be delisted.
Now I copy some of paragraph here, let us to see why and how?
Robert Bosch, the German industrialist,
engineer and inventor. He has found the Robert Bosch GmbH in 1886. His
philosophy is that “we should all strive to improve current situation.”
As same as that of many German enterprises,
the Robert Bosch GmbH is significant in great scale of operation with many
inventions, but rarely aired. The name of this company is not popular, but
their products are popular, very popular. Here, I mention two inventions of
them to demonstrate its popular: Automotive spark plugs, and Car anti-lock
braking system – ABS.
As that of general popular practice of
business operation world widely, in 1930s Robert Bosch GmbH once had listed and
gave the stock to the management team. After a while, Mr. Robert Bosch found
the top mangers changed their habit and attitude, they went to lazy and not
work as hard as before. The dividend income encouraged them paying attention on
enjoying life. So Mr. Robert Bosch changed his mind to have bought back the stock
and delisted.
At that time, only three people knew this
secret, and it was disclosed until recently by Mr. Franz Fehrenbach, the
incumbent president of Robert Bosch GmbH, when he was accepting the interview
of talk show of China Central Television in May 20 2012.
The delisting has played a positive effect
to the development of the enterprise. The interview also has revealed that
Robert Bosch GmbH is ranked at 119 in the world’s top 500 enterprises. The
sales revenue is 50 billion euros, in which the profit is about 8%. It is
inventing 16 patents a day. Its technology is playing a role of determining the
level of the development of the automotive industry of the world and is earning
most of the profits of the vehicle manufacturing.
Since, its every effort is affecting the
development of the world's automotive industry, and thus, it is referred to as
the Intel of automotive industry. As long as you drive, you can not do without
it, because the core components of the inside of your car are almost all manufactured
by Robert Bosch GmbH.
Above is the story of listed and
delisted in incentting the work enthusiastic of staff. But that is not
enough, Mr. Robert Bosch also summarized other bad effects as listed
Company.
1. Loss of autonomic power in decision-making.
2. Loss of autonomic power in financing.
3. The pursuit of the stock market value will be made fall
into a short-term behavior in business running, to affect long-term development
investment.
4. Listed Company can not keep excellent CEO, they may be
ousted due to poor short-term profit caused by focusing long term
investment. Some prospective researches may need long time to reach
practical results, such as, 5 years, 10 years, even more.
The hard experience of Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates is a good
example.They are being
attacked by Deadly
Side Effect from Microsoft
to be listed.
In the article <129 years Rationalization
Proposals in Germany>, I have introduced a more significant
incentive measure that is popular in Germany. It is the Key of German companies
keeping in full vibrant.
--- frank Oct. 6 2013 in Canada
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was pushed to retire early
By Zach Epstein on
Aug 26, 2013 at 7:15 PM
This time next year, Steve Ballmer will no
longer be the CEO of the world’s largest software company. The widely
criticized executive announced last week that he planned to retire from
his role as Microsoft’s chief within the next year, and he penned a heartfelt letter to Microsoft employees as
part of the announcement. While the maligned Microsoft boss said in interviews
that the decision to leave was his, a new report from AllThingsD’s always
reliable Kara Swisher paints a different picture of Ballmer’s departure.
Swisher says she interviewed dozens of
people inside Microsoft and close to the company, and they say the Ballmer’s imminent
retirement was “neither planned nor as smooth as portrayed” by Microsoft
or by Ballmer in interviews.
“While the decision to go seems to have
technically been Ballmer’s, interviews with dozens of people inside and outside
the company, including many close to the situation, indicate that he had not
aimed to leave this soon and especially after the recent restructuring of the
company that he had intensely planned,” Swisher wrote.
In other words, he was pushed out early.
The report states that the timeline of
Ballmer’s retirement was accelerated “drastically” by the Microsoft boss and
the company’s board of directors, including Bill Gates. “That was due to a
number of increasingly problematic issues on the immediate horizon — including
a potentially nasty proxy fight, continued business performance declines and,
perhaps most of all, that Ballmer’s leadership was becoming a very obvious
lightning rod,” the report stated.
Swisher also noted that several of her
sources said Bill Gates personally never asked Ballmer to step down earlier
than initially planned, though he did support the notion once it was being
discussed by the board.
2. Exclusive: Microsoft
investors push for chairman Gates to
Step Down
http://www.reuters.com/article/comments/idUSBRE9901H320131002
Microsoft founder Bill Gates speaks during
the Millennium Development Goals event on the sidelines of the United Nations
General Assembly, at the U.N. Headquarters in New York September 25, 2013.
Credit: Reuters/Brendan McDermid
By Nadia Damouni and Bill Rigby
NEW YORK/SEATTLE | Tue Oct 1,
2013 9:11pm EDT
NEW YORK/SEATTLE (Reuters) - Three of
the top 20 investors in Microsoft Corp are lobbying the board to
press for Bill Gates to step down as chairman of the software company he co-founded 38 years ago,
according to people familiar with matter.
While Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer has
been under pressure for years to improve the company's performance and share
price, this appears to be the first time that major shareholders are taking aim
at Gates, who remains one of the most respected and influential figures in
technology.
A representative for Microsoft declined to comment on Tuesday.
There is no indication that Microsoft's
board would heed the wishes of the three investors, who collectively hold more
than 5 percent of the company's stock, according to the sources. They requested
the identity of the investors be kept anonymous because the discussions were private.
Gates owns about 4.5 percent of the $277
billion company and is its largest individual shareholder.
The three investors are concerned that
Gates' role as chairman effectively blocks the adoption of new strategies and
would limit the power of a new chief executive to make substantial changes. In
particular, they point to Gates' role on the special committee searching for
Ballmer's successor.
They are also worried that Gates - who
spends most of his time on his philanthropic foundation - wields power out of
proportion to his declining shareholding.
Gates, who owned 49 percent of Microsoft
before it went public in 1986, sells about 80 million Microsoft shares a year
under a pre-set plan, which if continued would leave him with no financial
stake in the company by 2018.
He lowered his profile at Microsoft after
he handed the CEO role to Ballmer in 2000, giving up his day-to-day work there
in 2008 to focus on the $38 billion Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
In August, Ballmer said he would retire
within 12 months, amid pressure from activist fund manager ValueAct Capital
Management.
Microsoft is now looking for a new CEO,
though its board has said Ballmer's strategy will go forward. He has focused on
making devices, such as the Surface tablet and Xbox gaming console, and turning key software into services provided over the
Internet. Some investors say that a new chief should not be bound by that
strategy.
News that some investors were pushing for
Gates' ouster as chairman provoked mixed reactions from other shareholders.
"This is long overdue," said Todd
Lowenstein, a portfolio manager at HighMark Capital Management, which owns
Microsoft shares. "Replacing the old guard with some fresh eyes can
provide the oxygen needed to properly evaluate their corporate strategy."
Kim Caughey Forrest, senior analyst at Fort
Pitt Capital Group, suggested now was not the time for Microsoft to ditch
Gates, and that he could even play a larger role.
"I've thought that the company has
been missing a technology visionary," she said. "Bill (Gates) would
fit the bill."
Microsoft is still one of the world's most
valuable technology companies, making a net profit of $22 billion last fiscal
year. But its core Windows computing operating system, and to a lesser extent
the Office software suite, are under pressure from the decline in
personal computers as smartphones and tablets grow
more popular.
Shares of Microsoft have been essentially
static for a decade, and the company has lost ground to Apple Inc and Google
Inc in the move toward mobile computing.
One of the sources said Gates was one of
the technology industry's greatest pioneers, but the investors felt he was more
effective as chief executive than as chairman.
(Editing by Stephen Coates)
Comments
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josephmartins wrote:
Collectively the three own slightly more
than Gates himself. A whole 5% stake? Take a hike should be the appropriate
response to that group. Plenty of investors standing in line to take their
place.
Oct 01, 2013 9:28pm
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nose2066 wrote:
What’s so interesting is that for years
Microsoft protected their software monopoly by copying other people’s software
and incorporating that software as a free addition to Microsoft’s own products
– like adding an internet browser to Windows for example (That famously killed
off Netscape Navigator). Well, now Google has returned the favor by giving away
an operating system for free (Android) in order to help sell Google’s
advertising. Meanwhile, various software companies are selling office
replacement applications for a nominal price – about $10 per application.
Apparently the strategy of going into
devices, is to try to protect Microsoft’s monopoly in the software business
(the hardware ties you to the software). So far, very few people want to buy a
Microsoft brand computer and now Microsoft is competing with the hardware
vendors that are its big customers.
Oct 01, 2013 9:58pm
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tjordanchat wrote:
The guy is a crook. I worked for Novell
when Gates ordered his engineers to break Netware so that it looks like an
inferior product. It worked and Gates became gangster number one.
Oct 01, 2013 10:07pm
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oldcarman wrote:
I will resist ever having to use software I
pay for, that lives on somebody else’s server. This is the worst scam anyone
has thought of. Downloading was bad enough… I guess the Chinese will have to
figure out a way to hack their server to make the software affordable!
Oct 01, 2013 10:24pm
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JohnTheGreen wrote:
The entire industry is done. We are
breaking in to a new paradigm where “Computers” cost $49.99 and software is
free. If you had big plans of selling tablets for just under a grand, than you
will quickly be made extinct. It is hardly an industry when no one has a good
reason to upgrade… and even if they did… it wouldn’t cost anything to do so.
Officially mature at this point. It’s over. We don’t need programmers either,
just a few people to do maintenance here and there.
Oct 01, 2013 10:27pm
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tjordanchat wrote:
It is about time. Bill Gates was from a
different era. A more cowboy era. He will be fine.
Oct 01, 2013 10:48pm
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tjordanchat wrote:
The picture reminds me of Bill Gates
telling the courts that he can outsmart them anyday. The problem is that this
is recorded history.
Oct 01, 2013 10:53pm
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tjordanchat wrote:
Thank God for guys like Stallman and
Torvalds.
Oct 01, 2013 10:55pm
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ARJTurgot2 wrote:
Is it just me, or does that picture make
Gates look like Woody Allen?
Oct 01, 2013 11:01pm
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tjordanchat wrote:
There is no indication that Microsoft’s
board would heed the wishes of the three investors
But still, I am sure you know a good story
when you see one.
Oct 01, 2013 11:40pm
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brianpforbes wrote:
I struggle to understand how investors, who
are not interviewed or hired by Microsoft, should have any say in the company’s
strategy. It doesn’t seem the company is in great need of investors anyhow ,
not to mention their mere 5% ownership of stock ? Where did this
investor-centric view of the universe originate ?
Oct 01, 2013 11:58pm
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amd65 wrote:
On the one hand, BillG is a nice guy who
has build this business with his blood and sweat, and these investors have a
lot of nerver to suggest he leaves.
On another hand, a company such as
Microsoft, one of the largest in America, deserves a top guy who is 150%
committed to making the company successful. Gates is mostly committed to
philanthropy right now (kudos to him), and not to running Microsoft. So he
should move on, or else a new CEO will never be able to truly run the show
there with The Big Founder being a chairman.
Oct 01, 2013 12:01am
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amd65 wrote:
On the one hand, BillG is a nice guy who
has build this business with his blood and sweat, and these investors have a
lot of nerver to suggest he leaves.
On another hand, a company such as
Microsoft, one of the largest in America, deserves a top guy who is 150% committed
to making the company successful. Gates is mostly committed to philanthropy
right now (kudos to him), and not to running Microsoft. So he should move on,
or else a new CEO will never be able to truly run the show there with The Big
Founder being a chairman.
Oct 01, 2013 12:01am
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leungsite wrote:
I also hold minority shares in MS on the
belief Bill Gates is a super-heavy corner stone for this company. Why is his
presence appeared so much objectionable to some substantial stakeholders who
somehow want symbolic leader to sidestep ? I wouldn’t
wager for such change.
Oct 02, 2013 1:49am
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YesNoMaybeSo wrote:
It was Gates baby to begin with, they
wouldn’t have a pot to pee in if it wasn’t for him. Balmy was the one to push
out, it deserves must better than him…and why did it take so long to realize
that.
Oct 02, 2013 1:57am
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izrahim wrote:
Maybe he can do a Steve Jobs and return to
Microsoft as the CEO.
Oct 02, 2013 1:59am
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Verpoly wrote:
Hang around in the flea market for a whole
day just to end up buying a broken lamp. Nobody wants another Madoff-like
coming back to chair the board.
Oct 02, 2013 2:14am
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marusik wrote:
What a joke! The world’s richest man being
asked to surrender his post?
This is what I love about Capitalism…
It’s all about shareholders sake, or stake
in this case…
Oct 02, 2013 2:30am
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stphnsn wrote:
He should go to work for Grey Matter.
Oct 02, 2013 2:40am
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beancube2101 wrote:
Bulky software will no be tolerated because
they locked down users’ properties, assets and data.
Oct 02, 2013 5:15am
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1_Stock wrote:
It may sound…. but it is about time to…..!
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Gmann20213 wrote:
Shows that the value, of an original
creator, Bill Gates, is undervalued. But of course, the three investors could
be ‘Trojan horses’, placed to confused, deceive and even create chaos during
this time interval. All business is a form of war. What did Sun Zu say? All war
is a form of deceit!!
Oct 02, 2013 7:13am
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clemency13 wrote:
Though I have disliked Windows in recent
years and switched to linux system, I must agree that Bill Gates and Microsoft
did indeed revolutionize the computer domain. Had it not been for Bill Gates,
computers might not have been so ubiquitous as they are now!…I specifically
adore Steve Jobs, but Bill Gates is a respectable pioneer too. He put in a lot
of effort to build Microsoft. Its indeed a shame that people ask him to step
down on support of 5% share.
Oct 02, 2013 8:01am
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NotRusskie wrote:
Billionaire Gates stole everything from the
very beginning. I watched him on TV a few years ago not answering pointed
questions how his company came up to existence. It’s widely well known now.
Notwithstanding hundreds of billions of dollars this company is done because it
was based on lies and deceptions. Just recall .NET affair when they cracked
Java open to create a “better” Microsoft software.
You can stick fork in it. Filet Mignon.
Oct 02, 2013 8:18am
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Zappo15 wrote:
Sounds ridiculous but microsoft is going
down. The surface is worthless and not selling its not connected to wireless
phones and windows 8 is a bad operating system. The MS management team is fat
and complacent. The Koreans are very active and Google is just getting going.
The problem is not Gates stepping down who is going to step up? Nobody
worthwhile.
Oct 02, 2013 8:39am
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rkhalloran wrote:
Gates did a BASIC for the original 8-bit
computers back in the day. He lucked out when IBM came to him to provide the OS
for the original PC, which he ended up buying from a small Seattle developer
(do a wiki search on 86-DOS). The market-hoarding tactics MS employed during
the 90s are well-documented. Now the market is moving to mobiles & tablets,
where MS has failed spectacularly to gain traction, and dragged Nokia down with
them in the process. Trying to force a small, touch-screen model onto
traditional PCs with Windows 8 has gone over with a resounding thud, leading to
reduced sales for the typical OEMs (it’s telling that HP is now selling an
Android-based convertible tablet). MS has no major successes outside of Windows
(and to the XBox fans, remember that it only started outselling PS3 & Wii
this past year, and Nintendo still has more units sold than MS & Sony
combined), and there looks to be little prospect of changing that anytime soon.
Ballmer needed to go, but he was acting on
BillG’s mindset of protecting Windows+Office at all costs. With the migration
to mobiles and tablets, and the BYOD mindset taking hold in many businesses,
the MS infrastructure is beginning to be seen as more of an obstacle than an
advantage, and that mindset actively harmful to the company’s long-term
prospects.
Oct 02, 2013 9:38am
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rkhalloran wrote:
Gates did a BASIC for the original 8-bit
computers back in the day. He lucked out when IBM came to him to provide the OS
for the original PC, which he ended up buying from a small Seattle developer
(do a wiki search on 86-DOS). The market-hoarding tactics MS employed during
the 90s are well-documented. Now the market is moving to mobiles & tablets,
where MS has failed spectacularly to gain traction, and dragged Nokia down with
them in the process. Trying to force a small, touch-screen model onto traditional
PCs with Windows 8 has gone over with a resounding thud, leading to reduced
sales for the typical OEMs (it’s telling that HP is now selling an
Android-based convertible tablet). MS has no major successes outside of Windows
(and to the XBox fans, remember that it only started outselling PS3 & Wii
this past year, and Nintendo still has more units sold than MS & Sony
combined), and there looks to be little prospect of changing that anytime soon.
Ballmer needed to go, but he was acting on
BillG’s mindset of protecting Windows+Office at all costs. With the migration
to mobiles and tablets, and the BYOD mindset taking hold in many businesses,
the MS infrastructure is beginning to be seen as more of an obstacle than an
advantage, and that mindset actively harmful to the company’s long-term
prospects.
Oct 02, 2013 9:38am
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Jack___Davis wrote:
They had to Photoshop his index finger into
the picture.
Oct 02, 2013 9:52am
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ChangeWhat wrote:
LoL the balls on these investors, he could
by their shares for 3x there worth and throw in a trip around the world too.
Idiot shareholders think they have the know how to run a company like
Microsoft. I’ll say if it wasn’t for mommy and daddy helping these shareholders
when they were younger financially, they wouldn’t have a pot to piss in today.
Oct 02, 2013 9:53am
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LibsAreSatan wrote:
Investors should be pushing for MS to
eradicate Windows 8 from the planet.
Oct 02, 2013 10:10am
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JIMTFMB wrote:
What fools. Bill Gates is one of the best
men to ever walk the face of the Earth.
Oct 02, 2013 10:17am
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Cleansesociety wrote:
How can Microsoft suck so much?!
Why can’t these guys realize they need to
stop reinventing the wheel?!
While I’m am not very familiar with the nuances of tablet/mobile apps
industry/market, I DO know that windows 7 and 8 are absolute boon doggles and
PC killers. I’m just amazed at how behemoths like GM, Microsoft, Ford, etc…
continually screw up and seem to be in the process of committing business
suicide.
Bottom line – stop reinventing the wheel,
improve performance through adding functuality without altering the basic user
interface that the vast majority of us finally got accustomed too over the last
20+ years.
Oct 02, 2013 10:18am
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tmc wrote:
These are the kind of investors that
believe that you let entrepreneurs build a name brand then you buy it from
them, milk it for all it’s worth until it is nothing but a dried up husk of
what it was, then sell off the remaining assets and buy the next name brand you
can find. It’s the American way. Welcome to the USCA.
Oct 02, 2013 10:31am
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kelliann wrote:
They need to re-learn the fact that people
use Microsoft products for specific things and that’s what they want them for.
They don’t want another company aping Apple. As long as they keep trying to
break into markets they don’t belong in, their shares will never go anywhere.
They have something unique. They need to focus on it.
Oct 02, 2013 11:51am
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thebeaver wrote:
I’m left wondering why this is in the
news?? I seriously doubt (whomever these 3 clowns are) that their suggestion
would be taken seriously by anyone that matters.
Oct 02, 2013 11:53am
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Sue01 wrote:
Finally…while Bill himself became a
billionaire, now $$ safe from taxes in a “trust”, the stock is still in the
$40′s…while Apple and Google are out in the stratophere moving to exit the
solar system!!
Oct 02, 2013 12:00pm
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donbvonb wrote:
Fire all the humanitarians to make room for
more corporate collusion and implementation of rights violating tech!
Capitalism is so wonderful, you guys!
Oct 02, 2013 12:18pm
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Jake987 wrote:
Maybe Gates and Obama could just exchange
jobs?
Oct 02, 2013 1:10pm
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numb3r2 wrote:
This seems familiar didn’t Apple dump Jobs
at one time. What happen to Apple? I think Mr. Gates has some type of handle on
the technology business he arguably created. He definitely has more sources and
resources than the rest of you. : )
Oct 02, 2013 1:30pm
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chekovmerlin wrote:
He “invented” Microsoft. He made it what it
was. For shame. Men’s Warehouse the same. Kick out the person who started the
company and made it what it is. No sense of history, not gratitude for those
who began the company. If Jobs hadn’t died, they would have got rid of him
also.
Oct 02, 2013 1:41pm
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chekovmerlin wrote:
He “invented” Microsoft. He made it what it
was. For shame. Men’s Warehouse the same. Kick out the person who started the
company and made it what it is. No sense of history, not gratitude for those
who began the company. If Jobs hadn’t died, they would have got rid of him
also.
Oct 02, 2013 1:41pm
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RPhillips111 wrote:
I would think Gates and Ballmer both would
want to hang on until Obama leaves office. Like the media, it’ their “job”, to
see that Obama succeeds, and the power of Microsoft has been and continues to
be a very active arm of the “Obama Movement”.
But then, Gates appears to already be partnering
with JeeeBBB Bush as Obama’s successor, so maybe Gates and Ballmer feel their
work for Obama is basically over.
Oct 02, 2013 2:04pm
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sharktail wrote:
The devil in an angels disguise
Oct 02, 2013 2:19pm
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richardrothey wrote:
Finally, everyone is getting to the crux of
the whole problem. Microsoft needs an infusion of fresh talent with fresh
ideas.
Oct 02, 2013 3:05pm
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bullfrog84 wrote:
Great. People without the brains want those
with brains to get out of the way so they can make more money.
If you don’t like it don’t buy it.
Oct 02, 2013 4:30pm
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johnriley wrote:
Bill Gates is the brain behind Microsoft.
He is present as the founder, not interfering in the operations at all. He
can’t be replaced. If this happens, already under-fire Microsoft will face
pressure from all corners.
Oct 02, 2013 6:38pm
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ded2me wrote:
They want him out. And I want him to stop
pushing poison vaccines onto everyone. And he can keep his GMO mosquitos too.
Oct 02, 2013 6:42pm
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CmdrBuzz wrote:
Gates should have stepped down 38 years ago
and then we would not ever had that piece of crap known as Windows thrust upon
computer users.
Oct 02, 2013 7:00pm
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CmdrBuzz wrote:
Gates should have stepped down 38 years ago
and then we would not ever had that piece of crap known as Windows thrust upon
computer users.
Oct 02, 2013 7:00pm
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CmdrBuzz wrote:
Bill Gates should have stepped down 38
years ago and then we would not have had that piece of crap Windows thrust upon
computer users.
Oct 02, 2013 7:06pm
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jncarlos007 wrote:
I think Gates is too busy training his
private Blackwater army and monopolizing education to really care about MS
anymore. He just wants the title so people still call him up for his opinion.
At some point the man went Soros and nobody noticed…
Oct 02, 2013 7:13pm
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TumeloDavidKubu wrote:
I agree with joseph, why would a group
“minorities” be against Bill ? Yes the company is kind of slacking while there
is alot of challenge in the marketing but getting Bill out is not a good move!
This is always in IT / Web companies, when the CEO / Founder has or is close to
archiving their vision someone or people have to be against it… People who
where not there when the company started!!!!
Oct 02, 2013 7:21pm
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LynxEye wrote:
Well, Gates isn’t a saint, but he it’s
Beelzebub either. He’s simply a hard-nosed dirty street fighter businessman,
like a lot of people. His charity work is a fa?ade. Bill and Malinda care about
Bill and Malinda, it’s as simple as that.
Oct 02, 2013 9:10pm
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OlMart wrote:
Wow.. this is Steve Jobs and Apple all over
again.
You gotta love talentless shareholders who
make such huge decisions. But it is their money.
Another Con of being a public company.
Oct 02, 2013 9:58pm
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TJPride wrote:
The Surface was actually a good idea – with
one major flaw. It’s running Windows. I would totally buy a Mac OS / iOS hybrid
touchscreen, but I am tired of reinstalling Windows over and over because of
gaping security holes. I can not use a Windows computer for work.
Oct 02, 2013 9:58pm
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rkhalloran wrote:
Gates needs to keep arms-length from
Ballmer’s replacement, or that person will simply be seen as Just Another
Sockpuppet For BillG. Gates is unloading his MS holdings over the next five
years to fund his foundation; let him keep some figurehead position on the
board until then but let The New Guy have the breathing room to make the
necessary decisions to keep the company relevant in the current tech space.
Given the problems with Win8, Surface, WinPhone and XB One, Ballmer’s successor
has their work cut out for them.
Oct 03, 2013 8:16am
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rkhalloran wrote:
Gates needs to keep arms-length from
Ballmer’s replacement, or that person will simply be seen as Just Another Sockpuppet
For BillG. Gates is unloading his MS holdings over the next five years to fund
his foundation; let him keep some figurehead position on the board until then
but let The New Guy have the breathing room to make the necessary decisions to
keep the company relevant in the current tech space. Given the problems with
Win8, Surface, WinPhone and XB One, Ballmer’s successor has their work cut out
for them.
Oct 03, 2013 8:16am
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jkolen wrote:
“I’ve thought that the company has been missing
a technology visionary,”
The company has always been missing a
technological visionary. Bill Gates was a shrewd business man, but never a
technological visionary.
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