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News Source: Valleywag
| about 1 year ago
The Economist tidily sums up billg's career this week, now that Microsoft's Rain Man (see video) has walked away from the company after 33 years...When Bill Gates helped to found Microsoft there was a company rule that no employees should work for a...
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News Source: The Mercury News
| about 1 year ago
PDT Goodbye Bill Gates and Windows XP Chris O'Brien, Monday, June 30: It's all yours, Steve Ballmer. The Bud Abbott of Redmond, Wash., and perhaps the tech world's most famous sidekick, has officially taken the reins of the world's most important...
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News Source: Japan Times
| about 1 year ago
a tasteful, wooded corporate retreat north of Seattle...A large group — mainly chaps in their mid-40s — stand around...Here's how one described the scene: "Steve Ballmer was sobbing...But the audience of 130 of Microsoft's senior leaders waited...
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News Source: Times of India
| about 1 year ago
That coming from a person who boasted when he started Microsoft that he wanted to get a computer running his software in every home, and succeeded in having over 90 per cent of the computing world using Windows, might seem a bit hypocritical.
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News Source: The Advocate
| about 1 year ago
AP In this photo provided by Microsoft, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, right, speaks to employees as CEO Steve Ballmer looks on, during a farewell event celebrating Gates years at Microsoft, on his last day as a full-time employee, at company...
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News Source: Seattle Times
| about 1 year ago
Gartner In Bill Gates' send-off from full-time work at Microsoft on Friday, Steve Ballmer and Gates reminisced about their friendship, careers and the development of the software industry. If the earliest part of their friendship was any indication,...
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News Source: San Francisco Chronicle
| about 1 year ago
As Bill Gates embarks on a new era of his life, the world isn't just his playground...After more than 30 years, Microsoft's chairman is leaving daily life at the company he grew up with, planning to focus on the global philanthropic enterprises of...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| about 1 year ago
The departure of Bill Gates, who stepped down as chairman of Microsoft on June 27, means Microsoft's helm will now rest with Steve Ballmer after he moved into the corner office vacated by Gates. Ballmer, 52, has been Microsoft's CEO for the past...
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News Source: New Zealand Herald
| about 1 year ago
On his final full day at Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates went on stage to reminisce with his longtime friend Steve Ballmer, and neither man could hold back tears as Ballmer handed Gates a large scrapbook as a farewell present. Gates, who is stepping back...
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News Source: New Zealand Infotech Weekly
| about 1 year ago
Bill Gates has said a teary goodbye to Microsoft Corp, the software maker he built into the world's most valuable technology company based on the ambitious goal of placing a computer on every desk and in every home. He leaves his full-time executive...