{"id":203,"date":"2006-06-15T15:27:49","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T21:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameskovacs.com\/2006\/06\/15\/Bill+Gates+Transitioning+Away+From+Microsoft"},"modified":"2006-06-15T15:27:49","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T21:27:49","slug":"bill-gates-transitioning-away-from-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/2006\/06\/15\/bill-gates-transitioning-away-from-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Transitioning Away from Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People have been hypothesizing about this moment for years. The rumours became even more heightened with the hiring\/purchase of Ray Ozzie. Bill Gates&#8217; non-appearance at the keynote for TechEd, which I highlighted <a href=\"2006\/06\/12\/TechEd-2006-Day-1-Keynote-The-Good-The-Bad-And-The-Ugly\">here<\/a>, was another hint. Well, the day has come. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/13348456\/\">Bill Gates has announced<\/a> that he is transitioning away from his daily duties at Microsoft to focus on his charitable work with the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, though he will remain CEO in name. Everyone saw it coming, but I personally didn&#8217;t think the announcement would come this soon. The transition will take place over a two year period. Ray Ozzie, currently CTO, will take on Gates&#8217; title of Chief Software Architect. Craig Mundie, another CTO, will take on the title of Chief Research and Strategy Officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People have been hypothesizing about this moment for years. The rumours became even more heightened with the hiring\/purchase of Ray Ozzie. Bill Gates&#8217; non-appearance at the keynote for TechEd, which I highlighted here, was another hint. Well, the day has come. Bill Gates has announced that he is transitioning away from his daily duties at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}