http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2885
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All jokes aside, I wonder what MS will be like without that fish faced icon. To many, BG and MS are synonyms.

I bet it will be the same. This won't free us from Windows. :vomit:

Yeah, nothing will change.

We've got two years until his retirement anyway.

So THATS why he was on BBC News 24 at the Oxford services this morning...

You just watch. Two years of retirement and he'll be broke. *laf*

Well, when Sam Walton left Wal-Mart it became a money grubbing corporate machine. M$ already is a money grubbing corporate machine which means we're looking at the rise of the cybermen in 5 years time.

BG has the money to bribe every single human being into giving him all their money (bribes included), so I don't think he will need to worry about bread and water for a couple of eons. Beside, he do spend some billions of dollars on helping others. I guess he's not quite as bad as I would like to imagine him... I don't know. Maybe he'll go all Mother Theresa and maybe pigs can fly :D

Gates hasn't been a terribly big factor in Microsoft since he stepped down as CEO in 2000. This will change -- quite literally -- nearly nothing. Ballmer stepping down, on the other hand (as has been speculated about and called for recently), would have a far more significant impact. Microsoft needs an executive to actually do something or its stock is going to continue to plummet.

Well, as an icon, a logo if you will, he is quite unique. Logos are important because logos sell.

He won't go broke, he's a smart millionaire. He's got his money all stashed away safely, locked away in various untouchable investments and so on. Also he avoids a lot of tax by donating to charity. Plus he's a tightwad. That always helps. :P