Dear Mr. Gates:

 

 

 

 

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Date:  Wed, 21 November 2007  11:04 WesternIndonesiaTime

Subject:  Your Slip of the Tongue About "Last Meeting With Microsoft" 

 

 

 

 

 

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates listens to CEO Steve Ballmer answer a question from a shareholder, during the company's annual meeting in Seattle, Washington, November 13, 2007. REUTERS/Robert Sorbo

(UNITED STATES)

Reuters - Tue Nov 13, 3:08 PM ET

 

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates speaks to shareholders at the company's annual meeting in Seattle, Washington, November 13, 2007.

(Robert Sorbo/Reuters)

Reuters - Tue Nov 13, 3:29 PM ET

 

 

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates addresses the crowd at a launch party for the Zune media player in downtown Seattle November 13, 2006. Microsoft said Monday it will begin sales of three new versions of its Zune digital media player -- its answer to Apple's iPod -- on Tuesday.

(Robert Sorbo/Reuters)

Reuters - Mon Nov 12, 9:49 AM ET

 

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates speaks to shareholders at the company's annual meeting in Seattle, Washington, November 13, 2007.

REUTERS/Robert Sorbo

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Reuters - Tue Nov 13, 4:04 PM ET  

 

 

Oops, Gates gets it wrong

 

Nancy Gohring

Wed Nov 14, 3:29 PM ET

 

San Francisco - Bill Gates, regarded as one of the world's brightest and richest, made a mistake. It was a small error, but one that highlights the larger challenge behind his decision to spend less time working for the massive company he founded 30 years ago.

On Tuesday, at Microsoft's annual shareholder meeting, Gates told the audience that it would be his last meeting as full-time chairman of the company. In fact, Gates will remain the sole full-time chairman, but next year he will become a part-time employee. The minor slip-up points to the challenge that Gates and Microsoft face.

Even though Microsoft has appointed well-known names such as Ray Ozzie, Steve Ballmer, and Kevin Turner to fill Gates' shoes, the company in essence faces the impossible. "The one thing you can't replace, it would be impossible, is the revered status of the founder of the company, who took something small and made it into the biggest," said Jeff Parker, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft, referring to Microsoft's status as the largest software company in the world.

"He commanded irreplaceable respect among the troops because he's that guy." People, especially those on Wall Street, often hate uncertainty,   and   Microsoft    has

 

done a good job carefully plotting out Gates' plan for transitioning his time away from the company and for new minds to take over much of his work, Parker said.

Ozzie is expected to take on Gates' visionary work, Ballmer is designated as the leader of the company's business strategy, and Turner will run the sales organization.

"And so they don't replace Bill, but they kind of shore up the big pieces of the company, so there's no void," Parker said.

In 2006, Microsoft laid out Gates' plans, saying that effective July 2008, he would transition out of his day-to-day role in the company in order to spend more time with his charitable foundation. After July, Gates will continue to serve as chairman and also may advise on key projects. In fact, Gates' intentions were actually made clear earlier than 2006.

In 2000, Gates took on the title of chief software architect, handing over the CEO reins to Ballmer. That was around the same time that he and his wife started the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

"There's not really any confusion," Parker said. There's also nothing unique to the challenge that Microsoft faces. "Succession is an age-old problem, going back to every king, queen, and emperor," Parker noted.

 

source: http://www.infoworld.com

 

 

 

 

 

 
Marlin Taroreh  

Dimas Andrean

 

 

 

Acha Septriasa and her boyfirend Irwansyah

 

Harvey Malaiholo

 

 

 

Monday night, 19 November 2007, as usual at Trans 7 there was the talk show program of Empat Mata, or four eyes in English, televised from half past nine to eleven o'clock. It is a talk show with more humorous content than any other talk show on TV, most of the answers by the guests were filled with jokes. 

Usually every Monday night and Friday night the televised show were recorded shows, but that Monday night it was a live show. The guests that night were a sensual model Marlin Taroreh, a young TV star and singer Acha Septriasa, a young TV actor Dimas Andrean, a famous singer Harvey Malaiholo and his wife.

Unlike with the other episodes, in this  episode I stopped watching it when it was only half time of the program. Because something really distracted my mind, related with Lady Diana and you.

In that program the first guest Marlin was wearing a mini and sitting in the coach while crossing her legs. It reminded me with Lady Di's pose when she was interviewed by Martin Bashir, containing her admitting a love affair with James Hewitt, that later on triggered her divorce. And the third guest was Dimas Andrean, his first name sound like containing the word Di, that inevitably reminding me with Lady Di.

What distracted my mind was the fact that Tropical Storm Noel appeared at almost the same time when the news of Mukesh Ambani taking your position as the world richest occurred, and the initial of Mukesh Ambani is M.A. that sounds like my aunt Emma the wife of my uncle Noel.

Moreover, there was another news about your slip of the tongue on Tuesday 13 November 2007 at Microsoft's annual shareholder meeting, mentioning that it was your last meeting as full-time chairman of the company. Such words usually mentioned by someone who would pass away.

I wish that you will still live longer in this world, so that you can still give your significant contribution to this world. If all of a sudden you feel like getting closer to the end of your life, like mentioned in my previous letter of "My 2,5 Term of Life and Your 2,5 Grant to Four High Schools", please feel free to switch it to my self because since the beginning of these letters I am the one who has the consent to move out of this world.  

Even if in fact God has planned for your end of life in the next two years, I wish it would be switched to my self, and a wish can change a destiny.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 


 

 

Thank's,

A.M. Firmansyah

[email protected]

Tel. +62812 183 1538

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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