Bill Gates - Looking Back, Moving Ahead!
Well, it’s not easy to not write about Bill Gates’ transition today!
If you’re one of those a few guys who don’t know, today Bill Gates transits its main role at Microsoft to a Chairman role in order to spend more time on Bill and Melinda Gates foundation! This somehow means that Bill Gates is leaving its active role at Microsoft, the role that we all knew him for it!
So in a few hours, we’re going to say goodbye to the most famous man on the software world, or even in the whole computer world!
For those like me who have grown up in Bill’s age, this is a tragic day! I started computer with an MS-DOS operating system when was just a kid!
In the past years of my existence I’ve been working around software especially around various products that were coming out from Bill’s company, the Microsoft! As long as I moved upper and upper in this way and reached to better positions, I found some negative opinions about some elements of the Microsoft strategies and you might have read a part of this opinions on this blog. But all in all, none of these negative opinions can stop me from saying that Bill Gates is a great guy who has added much to the world in his life! Of course, he has much respect from everyone regardless of the technical and business perspectives.
There is no doubt that Bill took the software from a baby that was known to a limited group of people to help make it something more general, the world’s leading science that is growing fast and has become a main science that is feeding all other sciences. Even though Linux and Mac are great competitors for Windows but no one can disagree that there is no choice but Windows when it comes to applications. Whether you are an engineer or a professor, a student or a soccer coach, a musician or a writer, you should end up with an application that only works in Microsoft Windows. Of course, this Windows thing can be challenged seriously from a technical point of view but we’re still too far from that point!
Microsoft is not limited to Windows and has proven to be a big company targeting the High Tech with many employees around the globe! I don’t want to advertise Microsoft but want to say that Bill Gates’ role in this success is not ignorable! This success is a big success that has targeted the life of all the humans in the past two decades!
Bill is the most well-known person on the software world. I have faced with many people who just knew him as a legend. They were some guys who even didn’t know some guys like Steve Jobs so you can guess the difference here!
By the way, Bill is transitioning from his main role at Microsoft to a Chairman to work on more important goals in his foundation. His new goals are much more important and respectful for me. Many of you may not know some facts about the disaster that is going on in our world but I have seen it many times with my own eyes! What he is going to do is what our world needs right now! I really hope that he can be success in his new route and I’m almost sure that he can!
One of my hopes from the childhood days was meeting this guy in person. In the recent years it turned to be a hope to sit and watch one of his keynotes but none of these hopes could be achieved when he had an active role! In the past 2-3 years I became much much closer to his company and am know playing an effective role around the Microsoft. I also received some offers inside the company but due to my nationality and legal problems I was unable to leave the country and apply for them.
As of some side-notes, Bill’s page on Microsoft PressPass has been updated with his new role and he’s now just a Chairman! There you can find one of the latest quotes from him in this page:
We've really achieved the ideal of what I wanted Microsoft to become.
In this page you can also find a video named “Looking Back, Moving Ahead!” that is an overview of Bill’s life and interviews with his family members, friends and co-workers. It’s an interesting video to watch today!
Recently Channel 9 had an interview with Bill about his transition and he has described this transition in more business details.
As BBC points out, the original Microsoft family have joined together to retake that famous old photo after many years, after that their small company became this giant in the world!
Time goes faster than ever! I feel old now!!
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Goodbye BillG of Microsoft
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libhomo
06.28.2008 @ 8:02 AM
In honor of Bill Gates' achievements I issue him one illegal operation, one page fault, and one blue screen of death.