Must Read: Microsoft’s Gates Plans Leave Amid Great Change

Updated on Aug. 4 to change great read to must read. I think it is more appropriate.

We are introducing a new category here at Techticles named Must Read. These are valuable reads and articles written in the industry that you should know of.

For a jump start, this article from NYTimes talks about Bill Gate's decision to leave Microsoft amidst facing the biggest competition in their history.

In an excerpt:

REDMOND, Wash., July 27 — Microsoft is beset with competition from all sides, unlike any it has seen in decades, and Bill Gates, who co-founded the company 32 years ago, still intends to step away next year as planned.

But so far, Mr. Gates, Microsoft’s 51-year-old chairman, shows no sign of fading away.

One year into a planned two-year transition, there are few visible cues that Mr. Gates is ready to leave the world’s technology stage to devote his energies principally to the $33 billion foundation he established seven years ago with his wife.

Indeed at the company’s annual financial meeting last week Mr. Gates spoke first, outlining a decade-long agenda, not a mere 12-month outlook.

He described a world in which the widespread availability of broadband networks would reshape computing, giving rise to what he said would be “natural user interfaces” like pen, voice and touch, replacing many functions of keyboards and mice.

Mr. Gates has stayed deeply engaged in the company’s technology strategy. He still frequently participates in high-level strategy planning sessions with Microsoft’s closest partners, like Intel, according to executives who have attended the meetings.

During a wide-ranging interview last week exploring his diminished role at Microsoft, the company’s challenge and its competitors, Mr. Gates insisted that he really has begun stepping back.

Full articles found here.

We'll talk more about Bill Gates and his future with Microsoft next time around.

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