Bill Gates Retiring From Microsoft
Bill Gates announced his decision to retire from Microsoft in 2008 to focus his attention on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, aimed at fighting infectious disease and improving high schools. This must be music to his rivals in Silicon Valley.
In the Microsoft Corp. press release, “Microsoft Corp. today announced that effective July 2008 Bill Gates, chairman, will transition out of a day-to-day role in the company to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The company announced a two-year transition process to ensure that there is a smooth and orderly transfer of Gates’ daily responsibilities, and said that after July 2008 Gates would continue to serve as the company’s chairman and an advisor on key development projects.”
For your information, microsoft boss Bill Gates was photographed by the Albuquerque, New Mexico police in 1977 after a traffic violation (details of which have been lost over time). How can it be lost? This a mystery. Read more about Bill Gates at wikipedia.
Search Engine War Continues With Amazon A9 Powered by MSN Live
There is no official press release from the internet giants Google and Microsoft than Amazon A9 is now being powered by MSN Live. Its a very sudden move and a big lost for Google, this makes me wonder why would Amazon dump Google for Microsoft Live when it is so obvious that Google’s search engine is way much powerful and accurate than Microsoft’s search engine.
Microsoft fans all over the world have rejoiced about this as this is the first big victory for their Windows Live line of products. (If there is any fans out there). Yawn.
My suspect is that Microsoft must have offered Amazon a sweet deal, probably an link to their website for intergrated search into the next Microsoft Windows Vista. I can’t think of anything else that could possibly makes Amazon ditching Google for Live.
Gecko and Fly is just few weeks old and it is ranked fourth place in A9.com for the keyword “Gecko and Fly”. This goes to show how inaccurate the search engine is, but then this is suppose to be good news to bloggers like us.
Source : Chrono
