Not quite the end of Gates' Era, but close
InternetNews | at | by Mike
It wasn't exactly a formal handoff of power but when Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer shared a stage last night, the symbolic transition played out as Gates gets ready to retire from his full time job at the world's largest software company.
The two appeared at The Wall Street Journal's "All Things Digital Conference," where co-hosts Walter Mossberg and Kara Swisher interviewed them on stage.
Earlier in the evening I had an opportunity to talk with Gates about his fondest memories at Microsoft. "We got to dream about a software industry and the greatest tool of empowerment ever, the personal computer and be part of creating that in terms of the platform and the applications," he said.