Gates down to his last month at Microsoft
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
The only certainties in life, the saying goes, are death and taxes. But for IT pros and home users alike, there has been a third one for the past three decades: Bill Gates as the leader and public face of Microsoft, the software vendor he co-founded 33 years ago.
Along with Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs, Gates is one of the two most seminal figures -- or at least widely recognized personalities -- from the PC revolution that eventually begat both the dot-com era and today's Web 2.0 movement. And because of his fabulous wealth, and all of the controversy that Microsoft has generated because of its market dominance, Gates may be the only IT industry executive familiar even to members of the general public who aren't at all tech-savvy.