Jun 16, 2006

Gates and Windows

Posted in Science at 2:39 pm by David Bradley -- 1 Comment

It always seemed odd that a guy called Gates would fill his life with windows but today Microsoft Corp. announced that as of summer 2008 chairman Bill Gates will drop out of his transition day-to-day role in the company and begin to focus on his global health and education work through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Apparently, it’s going to take two years for the “transition” to happen, which is about right really, and no doubt they’ll give the process a code name like BigBone, and then when the marketing people get a hold of it they’ll change it to Scheista. It’s nice that he’s going to go through this transition at a time when the next version of Windows will be hitting the torrent networks.