Gates Plans to Tutor New Microsoft CEO

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CommanderFrank

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As soon as Microsoft picks a successor of retiring CEO Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates will be right by his side guiding his decisions, whether he wants his advice or not. Hey, he’s Bill Gates….Mr. Microsoft, when he wants to give advice on running the company, people will listen. :D

Gates also said he’s spending much more time on Microsoft business than the one day a week he planned when he stopped working there full time in 2008. The disclosures highlight Gates’ continued influence as Microsoft prepares for its first chief without ties to the company’s founding.
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Well the new successor is going to be called Steve, cause Steve is popular CEO nerd name. Bill will give him some rules that Microsoft lives by.

#1 Don't give customers what they want, but what you want.
#2 Keep saying how Cloud is the future.
#3 Developers developers developers. Make sure to be sweating like a pig, this is important.
 
What would his advice be?
1. Make sure your mom knows the CEO of IBM so you can get a sweetheart deal.
2. Buy an OS from someone else, and put your name on it.
3. Sit back and watch the billions roll in, as everyone is now locked into your software.
 
Well, let's look at it this way... I'm sure they would rather have Bill Gates do the coaching rather than Steve Ballmer.
 
Its halarious seeing shit posts like the ones above. Your talking like the single most influential person in the world around computer tech doesnt know what hes doing? What a fucking joke some of the people on these boards are
 
VladDracule said:
Its halarious seeing shit posts like the ones above. Your talking like the single most influential person in the world around computer tech doesnt know what hes doing? What a fucking joke some of the people on these boards are
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Single most influential in tech and sixth most powerful in the world.
 
The prospect of being tutored by Bill Gates is more exciting than actually being CEO of Microsoft.
 
VladDracule said:
Its halarious seeing shit posts like the ones above. Your talking like the single most influential person in the world around computer tech doesnt know what hes doing? What a fucking joke some of the people on these boards are
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+1, the envy runs deep with some. Heck, I'm not an Apple fan by any stretch but I do respect what Steve Jobs accomplished. It's not like what guys like Jobs and Gates have done happens on a routine basis.
 
Ashbringer said:
Well the new successor is going to be called Steve, cause Steve is popular CEO nerd name. Bill will give him some rules that Microsoft lives by.

#1 Don't give customers what they want, but what you want.
#2 Keep saying how Cloud is the future.
#3 METRO METRO METRO.
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FTFY
 
Ashbringer said:
Well the new successor is going to be called Steve, cause Steve is popular CEO nerd name. Bill will give him some rules that Microsoft lives by.

#1 Don't give customers what they want, but what you want.
#2 Keep saying how Cloud is the future.
#3 Developers developers developers. Make sure to be sweating like a pig, this is important.
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#4 When your new tablet fails and people can't figure out what it is (Win RT / Surface / Surface Pro wut?), repeat nearly the exact same mistakes a year later.
 
ocellaris said:
#4 When your new tablet fails and people can't figure out what it is (Win RT / Surface / Surface Pro wut?), repeat nearly the exact same mistakes a year later.
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Not exactly. The biggest mistake that Microsoft made with Surface last year was simply making too many Surface RT devices. I'd bet everything that they are not stockpiling Surface RT devices. The Surface Pro for what it is actually did reasonably well it would seem. And the overall Windows 8 tablet market is quite different from last year. Starting prices are much lower and there's actually some inexpensive devices, like the 8" tablets. I got the Dell Venue 8 Pro yesterday from Walmart. And that's another thing that's different from last year, you can buy Windows 8 tablets at a place like Walmart which you couldn't last year. And then there's Bay Trail. What a dramatic improvement over older Atoms, this Venue is actually pretty snappy, it's impressive that something the size of a mobile OS mini-tablet with no fan and similar battery life can run a full desktop class OS with solid performance.
 
And so it begins!

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VladDracule said:
Its halarious seeing shit posts like the ones above. Your talking like the single most influential person in the world around computer tech doesnt know what hes doing? What a fucking joke some of the people on these boards are
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Were the most influential people in the industry. Since Vista was introduced it's been one screw up after another with Windows 7 being intermission between it all. That's been going on for nearly 8 years now.

Remember they're replacing a CEO for a reason. While I respect Bill Gates as a human being and a business man, he hasn't really been involved in Microsoft for some time, except for some rare occasions. To say Gates is going to Tutor the new CEO is mostly theater. It helps investors sleep better at night
 
VladDracule said:
Its halarious seeing shit posts like the ones above. Your talking like the single most influential person in the world around computer tech doesnt know what hes doing? What a fucking joke some of the people on these boards are
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The man whose last act after all the anti-trust violations was to stifle the web, so that if you took someone from 1999 and showed them the internet today, they may react to the new content, but the tools of delivering the new content and user interaction are no different than before y2k. The exception being those driven by mobile devices, but on PC advancement was frozen.
 
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