The Leaving of Microsoft, America USA

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The Leaving of Microsoft, America USA

The week past has witnessed blogosphere’s shock-horror-all-is-lost reactions to Robert Scoble’s announcement that he will leave Microsoft to join Podcast. This was greeted by a mixture of true emotion and disbelief that the voice of Microsoft would go and do such a thing. There was a spattering of some “so what who cares”.

Overnight, blogosphere changed. It will never be the same and this caught a lot of bloggers with their pants down. Scoble was a part of their daily routine, a daily homage or an essential element of their diet without which, now all hope of continuity will be lost.

Tagging along behind the Scoble headline was Bill Gates’s announcement to leave his baby in 2008.

Blogosphere’s reaction to this has been lukewarm or tepid at best. Here we have the chief geek of geeks who founded Microsoft with Paul Allen and together these two turned our world upside down and made us all totally reliant in the main, on their product. I am writing this blog using the tools they developed. For me, this announcement is the headliner stuff.

Bill Gates’s news that he wants to transisition away from hands on at MS to focus on his charitable work (his and his wife’s trust funds the global anti-polio project), so that by 2008 he can slip quietly away into the sunset to do what he wants to do, was met with a modicum of alarm and a lot of derision about the world he created for us all and his employees.

Hell, even the share price did not react they way a major corp’s stock should on Wall St when the CEO or Chairman’s departure announcement is made!. It dipped then stablised. Business as normal!

Bill’s fault is that he is not rock star enough to create the mass hysteria his decision rightfully deserves. This guy changed our world. Windows will forever be his testament, his global legacy. Despite what the hecklers say, he did some awful good and deserves the accolades. I predict that when the day in 2008 dawns for Bill’s goodbye speech, many of us will wonder, fearfully, what will happen to our world.