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Justice may be more mollified by another announcement made last week: Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates relinquished the title of CEO. Steve Ballmer, 43, president since 1998, was named to replace him. "Gates' sidestepping helps a little bit," says George Washington University law professor William Kovacic, "to the extent you change the face you have to deal with. Nobody speaks of Ballmer as the villain...
...longer a CEO. With an antitrust case and a major shift in the market of his firm's core area of business looming, Bill Gates stepped down as CEO of Microsoft Thursday, handing the reins to long-time protégé and college buddy Steve Ballmer. Gates for his part will ratchet back to the role of chairman and "chief software architect." The move ends a 25-year stretch as Redmond's top dog, during which Microsoft became the world's most valuable firm and Gates its wealthiest individual. In that time, Gates also embodied the resurgence of American...
...Once upon a time in the 1970s, a question arose among the Bee Gee faithful: What's grooving at Harvard? A guy named James J. Cramer '77 (then hair-famous; now street.com smart) and Crimson pal Steve A. Ballmer '77 (then a turkey shoot victim; now a Microsoft billionaire) decided to start a Crimson magazine. They named it What Is To Be Done, a shout out to communism, a form of socio-political organization, that Mr. Cramer liked a lot. We hear he runs his hedge fund like a good Leninist. Once upon a time, in the late 1990s...
This project comes in the wake of two $20 million private donations given by Microsoft executives Gates and Ballmer, one to MIT and one to Harvard. The money is being used to build new labs for technology research at each school...
Harold Abelson, co-chair of I-Campus, said Microsoft's involvement in this area is different from Gates's and Ballmer's private gifts because it means MIT and Microsoft employees will continue to work together...