Steve Ballmer's Nine Year Retirement Plan
| Bill Gates is retiring from Microsoft this year and the exec he left in charge, Steve Ballmer, is ready to leave in nine years. At this evening's keynote at the opening of the CeBIT computer tradeshow in Germany, Ballmer departed from his prepared script long enough to say, "I've got about another nine good years in this business." He made the off-script remark while contending that the technology world was entering a fifth computing revolution with the series of major changes taking place every seven years or so. See Mike Vizard's blog item on the keynote. Ballmer also said Bill Gates is very busy taking free online technical courses from MIT. |
Comments (8)
in 9 years ms will have ripped us off billions of more dollars. i guess we will be on service pack 11
Posted by lou | March 3, 2008 10:45 PM
Windows Vista was supposed to come out in 2003, but was released 30th January 2007. So in Microsoft time he will leave in 2036, assuming Redmond has any chairs left by then.
Posted by Zeth | March 4, 2008 7:56 AM
9 GOOD years left ? so - when is he going to start ?
Posted by Jerry Clark | March 4, 2008 8:36 AM
So that's one more release of Windows? Guess he wants to see Windows 7 through and then call it quits. ;-)
Posted by TemporalBeing | March 4, 2008 9:49 AM
"Ballmer also said Bill Gates is very busy taking free online technical courses from MIT."
Ironic that he is taking advantage of an open academic program while hoarding what he and his company have to offer.
Posted by Jon | March 4, 2008 11:06 AM
But how long do we have to wait for him to be good?
Posted by GrueMaster | March 4, 2008 3:40 PM
In the 25 years that I have been in computers, nevermind...
That's why I use Linux, exclusively, for the last 8 years.
Posted by Mike | March 4, 2008 6:24 PM
Free online courses from MIT? I'll have to check that out immediately!
Posted by Mr. Sustainable | May 22, 2008 9:27 AM