[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]
“Love him or hate him, Bill Gates was, and still is,
the face of Microsoft. What Microsoft doesn’t want you to know
though is that Gates has almost nothing to do with the company
anymore.“That’s what comes across loud and clear in the recent Fortune
overview of the world’s richest man. Instead of plotting out how to
knock Apple back into the dirt or how to put Google in its place,
Gates spends his days on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
stopping by the laboratories of Intellectual Ventures to talk
blue-sky ideas every few weeks with Nathan Myhrvold, and dropping
off or picking up his three kids from school.“Bill Gates? The great white-shark of computing doing the
suburban dad routine!? Yes, yes he is, albeit I doubt he drives a
mini-van.”