Well, nothing new really. Bill Gates has stepped down from the active role of chief imaginator after stepping down as CEO some years back. Over time I have grown nausious at times thinking how big Microsoft got.
There’s no questions necessary to confirm Bill Gates was the man that changed the way productivity was measured in the 20th century. Within 20-years the workplace evolved through the information revolution. It took a hundred years or more to pull off the industrial revolution.
Microsoft is still used to getting it’s way with everything. No longer can the computer provide the bread-and-butter. The computer has gone from a paper-weight, to electronic typewriter, power tool for numerous tasks, and a window into a vast sea of knowledge and productivity gains never seen as such in history.
We all have this to blame on Bill Gates with distaste and gratitude. The jobs in the workforce Microsoft created alone for his company and all other sibling industries is staggering. However, at the same time Microsoft went from an engine of innovation to a blob of blubber pushing people around and buying other entities it lacked in innovation as it got more bloated.
Ultimately, like all industry giants, Microsoft has matured in the economic sense that the only thing left is to diversify. So in the macro economics world it only makes sense to buy other sectors to grow. Since the Internet took off, which Mr. Gore didn’t invent, Microsoft has struggled. No longer do big monster size corporations rule the business world. Now small entities, as small as one, can churn unbelievable opportunity.
The computer is here to stay, but we don’t need Microsoft to repair it. Let the competition do it. We really need that.
