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So, after a 2 year transition, today is the day that Bill Gates steps down from his full-time job at Microsoft (although he will remain Microsoft\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s chairman and will be involved in select projects based on direction from CEO Steve Ballmer and the rest of Microsoft’s leadership team).<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>I commented on Gates’ departure a couple of years back<\/a> and more recently wrote about Mary-Jo Foley’s concept of Microsoft 2.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s 33 years since Microsoft was formed<\/a> and 30 years since the famous photo with most of the founding employees was taken in Albequrque. 30 years is a long time in IT. \"The<\/a>Come to think of it, 30 years is most of my life (I’m 36) and I was interested to read about how the famous photo had been recreated for 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Stephen Levy has written an article for Newsweek entitled “Microsoft After Gates. (And Bill After Microsoft.)”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There’s a Microsoft video looking back at Gates’ life – and forward to the future<\/a> but I prefer the version from the 2008 CES keynote:<\/p>\n

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Some people love to hate Microsoft. Some people can’t stand other people being successful – and it’s difficult to deny that Gates has been successful. For 14 years now, I’ve followed a career in IT, during which I’ve worked largely with Microsoft products, so I’d like to say “thank you and good luck” to the world’s most famous geek as he does what all of the world’s richest people should do at some stage in their life and changes his focus to work with helping those who are less fortunate<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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