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TIME reported last week that Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold's leave of absence was, according to some sources at the company, engineered by president Steve Ballmer. Myhrvold, who has occasionally written for TIME, assures us--and other Microsoft executives agree--that his leave was his own choice and that he has not been spending half his time on his own outside interests. We did not mean to spoil the joy of his well-earned leave...
...over the year, Harvard literally plowed ahead with the $20 million Maxwell-Dworkin computer science and electrical engineering building, which is being paid for by gifts from computer giants William H. Gates III, Class of 1977, and Steven A. Ballmer '77, also a former Crimson executive. The building, named for the donors' mothers, Mary Maxwell Gates and Beatrice Dworkin Ballmer, is being built on a site near the law school...
Microsoft founder Bill Gates, a member of the class of 1977, and Microsoft executive vice president Steven A. Ballmer '77 donate $25 million for a new building and a professorship in computer science and electrical engineering. The building, named Maxwell Dworkin for the donors' mothers, is scheduled for completion this summer...
Rumors in Silicon Valley and inside Microsoft abound that the sabbatical is the presentable public face that has been put on a very private ousting orchestrated by Microsoft's president, Steve Ballmer. According to one source, Myhrvold, once hailed as Bill Gates' favorite geek, has been given the golden boot for putting his outside interests before his job. (Not your usual geek, Myhrvold pursues paleontology, cosmology, zoology, Formula One car racing, gourmet cooking and piloting his $38 million Gulfstream jet.) For the past year, Myhrvold has seemed to be on an unofficial sabbatical, out of the office more than...
Talk of his departure heightened when Ballmer formed an inner circle of executives, the Business Leadership Team, and Myhrvold wasn't on it. Moreover, his brother Cameron, with whom he founded Dynamical Systems Inc., which Gates bought in 1986, recently left the company...