Saturday, June 17, 2006
Gates to leave Microsoft
Bill Gates is giant in a number of ways, but non so more importantly in his charity work in providing vaccinations for third world countries around the world via his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Gates, 50, has decided that its time to exit Microsoft’s hands on work and stay as the companies chairman. Microsoft in recent years has gone a spending spree of purchasing companies who have the staff with appropriate skill sets to provide them with further opportunities to remain market leaders in computing technology.
Windows, Microsoft’s flagship product is the operating system of choice by computer users and is run on over 90% of the world computers and servers. The only threat to Microsoft is the constant upsurge in Open Source software for both windows and linux operating systems.
When Microsoft purchased Groovey Networks recently it was to gain the skill set of a very important employee of Groovey Networks, Mr Ray Ozzie who was the original creator of the IBM’s Lotus Notes office communication software. Microsoft has through this deal installed Ray Ozzie as the chief technical officer.
This was the roll was the roll that Bill Gates was holding until the announcement yesterday, Gates, will remain in this role along side Ozzie in a transition period lasting 16 months.
Gates is confident that he will be leaving a great team that will be able to handle his departure from the day to day running of the company successfully and step up to provide a successful and smooth transition.
Gates says that all his energy will be devoted to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which hands out grants of more than US$1 billion annually, predominantly to the fight against diseases such as polio, malaria and AIDS.
Gates, 50, set up the company in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen, who quit the business six years ago. The pair steered Microsoft's Windows operating system to its dominant position in the software world.
Gates, 50, has decided that its time to exit Microsoft’s hands on work and stay as the companies chairman. Microsoft in recent years has gone a spending spree of purchasing companies who have the staff with appropriate skill sets to provide them with further opportunities to remain market leaders in computing technology.
Windows, Microsoft’s flagship product is the operating system of choice by computer users and is run on over 90% of the world computers and servers. The only threat to Microsoft is the constant upsurge in Open Source software for both windows and linux operating systems.
When Microsoft purchased Groovey Networks recently it was to gain the skill set of a very important employee of Groovey Networks, Mr Ray Ozzie who was the original creator of the IBM’s Lotus Notes office communication software. Microsoft has through this deal installed Ray Ozzie as the chief technical officer.
This was the roll was the roll that Bill Gates was holding until the announcement yesterday, Gates, will remain in this role along side Ozzie in a transition period lasting 16 months.
Gates is confident that he will be leaving a great team that will be able to handle his departure from the day to day running of the company successfully and step up to provide a successful and smooth transition.
Gates says that all his energy will be devoted to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which hands out grants of more than US$1 billion annually, predominantly to the fight against diseases such as polio, malaria and AIDS.
Gates, 50, set up the company in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen, who quit the business six years ago. The pair steered Microsoft's Windows operating system to its dominant position in the software world.
# posted by Peter Saville - IT Consultant @ 2:54 AM 
