Bill Gates Steps Down As CEO Of Microsoft
Author: SmellyGeekBoy | Date: June 27, 2008
Well, it’s been a whole two years since that announcement, and the end of June 2008 is finally upon us. That means that Bill Gates is standing down from his position as CEO of the company he founded all those years ago, to work on his charity, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Apparently some balding gibbon creature is going to be taking over his position.
Seriously though, while I’ll be the first to admit that I use a Mac and Linux at home, I can’t help but admire old Billy boy and the huge contribution he’s made to the world of computing. From MS-DOS (which they didn’t write, but we’ll forgive them for that) to the heady heights of, er, Windows Vista, the world would be a very different place without those boys from Redmond, Washington.
There’s a great tribute to Bill Gates today over at Ars Technica to mark the occasion, and it’s much better than anything I could have written, so read that and pretend you’re still here on Team Teabag.
I wonder what direction Microsoft will take now? Will they carry on with the same old same-old, invent the next big thing, or even collapse into obscurity? I guess that only time will tell.
That picture makes me tingle in my special places.
I can’t be sure whether it’s the sultry pose Bill is laying in, or whether it’s the old computers.
Perhaps both.
You see that behind his right shoulder? That’s what makes me tingle. Also, the IBM monitor in the foreground is pure retro computing sex.
Yes, I am special.