Commentary: Gates' planned exit changes everything
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| ? Redmond will bleed (more) talent. Gates' departure will make it
| more difficult to attract and retain top talent at a time when people
| are already flocking to Google...
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| ? Microsoft will likely dig in its heels. The shift of day-to-day
| leadership from Gates to others in Microsoft will mean the debates
| inside the company about interoperability versus portability may
| go differently...
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| ? A software paradigm will go out to pasture. Gates' departure comes
| at a time of deep soul-searching at Microsoft. The tried-and-true ways
| of creating and selling software aren't working--witness the latest
| missed ship date for Vista, the company's hammering by investors for
| producing uninteresting results in the third quarter of fiscal 2006,
| as well as blog grousing by Microsoft's own employees.
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| ? Ballmer will need to make tough business model decisions...
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| ? Ozzie will have to keep his eye on Live...
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