Bill Gates to become just ordinary billionaire

[YKhan]

Microsoft Chairman Gates to leave day-to-day role. - Jun. 15, 2006
http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/15/technology/microsoft_news/index.htm?cnn=yes

 

[Jan Panteltje]

Microsoft Chairman Gates to leave day-to-day role. - Jun. 15, 2006
http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/15/technology/microsoft_news/index.htm?cnn=yes

He does not look very happy in that picture, was he forced to step down?
Shares of MS are lower then the market.
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=microsoft
There also was some high volume selling start of may
One of the higest volumes in the last few years (choose view max).

 

[Yousuf Khan]

He does not look very happy in that picture, was he forced to step down?

I doubt it, I've seen that picture before. It's a stock photo of Gates
while he is giving some kind of speech from a few years ago. He was
probably giving a speech about how great Windows is, or how open source
is a virus, or something. That would explain the glum look.

Yousuf Khan

 

[Jan Panteltje]

I doubt it, I've seen that picture before. It's a stock photo of Gates
while he is giving some kind of speech from a few years ago. He was
probably giving a speech about how great Windows is, or how open source
is a virus, or something. That would explain the glum look.

Yousuf Khan

OK, possible ;-), but I did see an other one later on the web, where he was
with his successors...
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/17/technology/17soft.html

He almost looks sleepy.
I hope he wakes up, really...

It is perhaps possible he has seen the MS has reached max growth....
Dunno how you can make money with a charity, but if anyone can it is Billy.
40 billion capital, maybe he sold some MS shares....

Maybe he will install Linux Open Suse at home.

 

[George Macdonald]

I doubt it, I've seen that picture before. It's a stock photo of Gates
while he is giving some kind of speech from a few years ago. He was
probably giving a speech about how great Windows is, or how open source
is a virus, or something. That would explain the glum look.

Maybe still pondering that pie he got in the face in Belgium(?) He was
*NOT* happy about that one.

 

[The little lost angel]

I doubt it, I've seen that picture before. It's a stock photo of Gates
while he is giving some kind of speech from a few years ago. He was
probably giving a speech about how great Windows is, or how open source
is a virus, or something. That would explain the glum look.

Or maybe he was about to do another live demo of plugging something
into the latest Windows beta? pP