Microsoft announces new CEO?Pres

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Bill Gates announces Steve Ballmer as new President and CEO of Microsoft effective Jan27.

MSNBC now 4:45pm

-- Sally Strackbein (sally@y2kkitchen.com), January 13, 2000

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Very clever but it probably won't work with respect to Justice Department, too late. Gates is a terrible "politician", crude and obvious at every step. If they had done this six months ago, Justice would have backed off, IMO. Of course, they will have a couple of years to fiddle with this in the courts before a final break-up decisoin is made .....

-- BigDog (BigDog@duffer.com), January 13, 2000.

Let me add to this that they probably hope this will provide enough face-saving to all parties that Justice can be prevailed upon to work out a "deal" - "hey, Gates isn't really running Microsoft anymore, isn't that enough?"

Right. And Rasputin wasn't running anything either.

-- BigDog (BigDog@duffer;.com), January 13, 2000.


The Mac is meant to RULE the world!

Billy Goat the Thief must be untangled from the world's dependence on inferior software.

Billy Goat should remove the Java Screwed deliberate jinx!

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), January 13, 2000.


Mac will rule the world? Say hi to Peter Pan while you are living there in "Never Never Land"

-- (BillyBlaze@nightshift.com), January 13, 2000.

Sally:

They are talking about breaking MS into the component parts. Doesn't sound so good to me. Multiple companies writing buggy code instead of one. Like those horror movies where the hero cuts the monster into little pieces and each piece becomes a new monster. Well, I really can't complain that much. Without the buggy MS software, I couldn't work.

Best wishes,,

-- Z1X4Y7 (Z1X4Y7@aol.com), January 13, 2000.



Bill, we hardly knew ye.

-- (DOS@RevengeOf.TheNerds), January 13, 2000.

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