[Info-vax] Maybe a bit OT, maybe not.. in any case an interesting article

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Mon May 14 22:59:10 EDT 2012


On 5/14/2012 10:53 PM, JF Mezei wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> Ballmer has been CEO of MS for 12 years.
>>
>> And he has had a bunch of successes (Windows XP/7/2003/2008,
>> .NET, Sharepoint, XBOX, Azure) and a bunch of failures (Windows Vista,
>> Bing, Windows Phone).
>
>
> But Bill Gates was still at Microsoft for much of that time driving the
> technology vision. He only recently totally left the company in the last
> couple of years if I recall correctly.

He still worked as chief architect until 2006. From 2006 to 2008
he transitioned that job over to Ray Ozzie (that has since left
MS with no replacement).

Arne




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