>>>can somebody tell me if Bill Gates has cut ALL ties to Micosoft and now has nothing to do with Microsoft. I'm just curious and a little confused.
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>>He recently handed off the day-to-day operational responsibility to Steve Ballmer and appointed himself Microsoft's "chief software architect".
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>< g > sure sounds like to me that he's tired of being in the hot seat and wants to revert back to true geekhood & become a code monkey again. Considering the dark sordid History of MS DOS which was from him past code monkey life, I think the only folks that should be concerned here are the hot seat sitters at companies like Sybase & SAP. ( LOL! )

I think anyone in development at MS might be squirming a little bit now, too -- hoping that they're not deemed to be deadwood when they end up under Gates' microscope.