Sometime Today, j cobbled together some glyphs to say:
July 2008 favourite punching bag will resign from M$ as chief software architect. The orginal PR stated that he was resiginig as Chairman. But a clarification from billybaba says that he will remain chairman forever. Hopefully the rest of the garbage will remove itself too and there will be some real architecture in place of spahgetti.
Actually, Bill Gates is probably one of the few good technical guys at Microsoft. When Microsoft started, it was just Bill and Paul who were the smart guys.
Read joel's thoughts: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html for some good insights.
Philip