Ray Ozzie, [Bill Gates’] successor as chief software architect, doesn’t have anything close to the confrontational approach that the Microsoft co-founder used to shape the company.
“It’s as though you’ve been running Italy using the Mafia for the last 20 years and you bring in a priest,” said Mark Anderson, publisher of the Strategic News Service technology newsletter.
One year later, Microsoft feels subtle effects of Gates’ transition, Todd Bishop
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