Today, D. Spencer Hines made these interesting comments ...

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Today, D. Spencer Hines made these interesting comments ...

I fear Bill Gates is an absentee landlord these days and his
successors don't have a steady hand on the tiller.

The new head of MS, the guy Gates hired as CEO,...

Yes, what's his name -- Steve something or other? Former MS
President -- now CEO?

Yes, you just jogged my memory - it is Steve Ballmer (maybe
spelled wrong).

is a consumate
businessman and has steadily raised their sales, revenues and
profits, which is what a traditional CEO is supposed to do.
So, he well deserves the salary, bonuses, and stock options
he is getting.

Good Points & True.

But, he is not, not, NOT the techno visionary that Bill Gates
is, so my view is that Gates will never fully relinquish the
throne to an old-fashioned bean counter, even though that is
exactly what MS needs to do in a market driven by costs and
with limited markets to conquer, if they cannot convince
people to upgrade on a whim.

Yep, Bill and Melinda need to stop giving away their money and
Warren Buffet's for a while [although I understand exactly why
they are doing it -- all the reasons] and watch the store
more.

Bill and Melinda are free to give away THEIR money, it ain't any
of our business. But, my personal view, shared by some and
disparaged by others, is that besides being a visionary, Bill
Gates is also an extreme egotist in the best vein of a Lee
Iacocca, so I don't think he will ever totally drop the reins.

It's also a Market driven by Left-Wing Judges who are
convinced that Big Corporations Are Inherently BAD and must be
brought to heel -- by said Judges -- or broken up if they fail
to heel. It's often an eat the Golden Goose solution.

Let's try to keep politics out of this, OK? I will make only one
comment about the courts: they are highly divided as to whether
anyone's EULA is or is not enforceable because they ALL violate
one main tenate of a contract, and that is the right of either
party to modify the contract prior to agreeing. There never has
been any law or rulings that force the other party to agree to
the changes, but full agreement on the wording, as well as full
agreement on what contract attorney's call "consideration", which
often means money but doesn't always mean that.

[snip]
You're not likely to see it, ever. Please keep in mind that
much of life revolves around perception, and not absolute
truth, but reality trumps any card in the game. So, if you
PERCEIVE you need the next whiz bang, then I guess you do,
but be prepared for some headaches if you're an early
adopter on something this big.

D'accord.

Have a good Sunday, Spence!

Oh, I am indeed -- on O'ahu -- Kailua.

And you too -- where, in general, if you don't mind.

DSH

--
HP, aka Jerry