As some of you may know, I was recently involved in a tagline competition for The Printed Blog.
The prize for the winner was a Nintendo Wii. Despite being way behind after missing a day’s worth of voting, I ended up winning the contest, with over 51% of votes.
I'm still trying to make out whether this is an elaborate hoax or if Bill Gates has finally lost his mind, but numerous reports and tweets (including one from Evan Williams himself) indicate that he has just unleashed a bunch of mosquitoes on the crowd at the TED conference, say
It’s been said and feared that once a man stops working he starts dying. But honestly, give me a billion, just one, and you’ll never see me again unless it’s at a margarita bar somewhere beautiful. Not so for Bill Gates, though, recently semi-sorta-retired from Microsoft. He’s starting a new company.
The latest Nielsen stats put Microsoft's share of the search market at an unimpressive 11.9 percent. What's more (or to be accurate, less), its year-over-year growth is negative. But Microsoft's search team has an interesting ally in its corner, as it turns out Bill Gates may still be lending some sort of hand.
William Henry Gates III (to some known as Bill) has retired from Microsoft as you probably well know by now. Gates who will remain chairman, has left a huge mark on the technology world and the world in general, and has inspired many, many others to dream of just accomplishing a small fraction of what he has.
To be fair, I think any one of us would be thrilled to move 140 million copies of something. But Microsoft is held to a higher standard, and so Bill Gates's positive comment about Vista sales is raising some eyebrows.
It's a common negotiation tactic: go to the dealership, look at a car, and leave. The dealership may drop the price when you come back, and if it doesn't, there are other cars, anyway. But according to Bill Gates, Microsoft isn't pulling this stunt with Yahoo.
Recounting the recent Microsoft-Yahoo stuff would be a waste of space; we all know what happened and who was involved. One name rarely came up, though, and in case anyone was wondering what Bill Gates thought about the outcome, well . . . he doesn't seem to have lost sleep over it.
Eric Schmidt and his fellow Googlers probably can't wait for Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to get the heck out of the business world and go on with his philanthropic works.
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