Is Gates' retirement Linux's chance?
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| On June 15, Bill Gates announced that he would be retiring from Microsoft
| in July 2008, and everything changed.
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| It may be two years away, but when a giant the size of Gates moves, the
| world moves with him. And, in that movement, in this period of change,
| Linux may have its best chance ever to seize the marketplace momentum from
| Microsoft.
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| [...]
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| Microsoft may actually be especially vulnerable to a fall. Steve Ballmer
| may have been president and CEO since January 2000, but to the outside
| world at least Bill Gates has continued to be Microsoft's face.
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| [...]
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| Take Vista and its endless delays. Even now, after having missed its
| drop-dead shipping date, the betas are still, well, awful. Let me remind
| my Windows-friendly readers that it's not just me, a Penguin-supporter,
| saying this. Even Microsoft's friends are having a hard time finding
| nice things to say about its status.
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| Take Vista and its endless delays. Even now, after having missed its
| drop-dead shipping date, the betas are still, well, awful. Let me remind
| my Windows-friendly readers that it's not just me, a Penguin-supporter,
| saying this. Even Microsoft's friends are having a hard time finding
| nice things to say about its status.
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| It's not just Vista, though. It's a malaise throughout Microsoft.
| Microsoft's own managers and developers publicly whine about
| mis-management. The company can't keep straight what it really means
| by either ".NET" or "Live". And, saying "Windows security" continues
| to be an oxymoron, no matter how often the company insists that it's
| securing its software.
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| If this was another company, if this hadn't been Microsoft, the
| analysts would have long ago been shorting the stock and predicting
| trouble ahead without major changes.
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| Well, we are getting a major change, but it's not the one Microsoft
| needed. With Gates walking away, everyone will start seeing that
| Microsoft has feet of clay, that the giant can stumble and fall.
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS3436284810.html
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