New Era of Technical Leadership at Microsoft
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Melinda, obviously I talked with her even before I talked with Steve about this possibility and got her advice. For a couple of weeks she said, have you mentioned it to Steve yet, and I said, no, it wasn't easy to bring up today, maybe it will be easy to bring up tomorrow. Obviously she is also very involved with the Foundation, spending more of her time. The same way I love working with the people at Microsoft, working with her, and the team that's been built there is going to be fantastic. So, she participated in the thinking, but the date really has to do with the strength of the team here at Microsoft, and how that's grown, and the sense of need of what my time at the Foundation would be able to do.
QUESTION: I know that during the transition when Steve became CEO, you had some bumps, and made some adjustments there. Is there anything that you're going to draw from that in order to make this transition, especially considering that announcements like this for the long term, or even a two-year horizon, in some other companies maybe hasn't worked out so great. Do you have specific thoughts about how you're going to make this work to have Microsoft get the most value of you, and then let the people under you use the approach?
BILL GATES: I feel fantastic about once Steve and I got into the roles where I was CSA and he was CEO, how we got our working to be, I think, one of the greatest business partnerships of all time. We had to change a little bit there, but once we got through that it's been quite amazing. And I think we have that as we go through the next two years, and as I work a bit less time, the dynamic is exactly the same. Steve is in charge. He views me as a resource. He's got because of the scale of the company and the incredible talent, and the change I'm making, he's got to draw more on the rest of the people in the company. So, I don't think it's going to be that hard. Steve has been great about saying to us, hey, let's not let this two years go by and just sort of say, oops, it went by. And that's partly why putting research under Craig right away, and changing his title. Putting David Vaskevich under Ray, and giving him the Chief Software Architect title, it's a very clear message to all the groups at Microsoft that this transition is a serious thing. It's started now. Actually a year from now, we're going to do something that will further reinforce that message, which is we'll say that the two of them actually work directly for Steve at that point, and what Steve and I want to see at that point is that, by and large, they're doing their new jobs. I'm in virtually all those meetings, but I'm not as necessary. Because even in the first year I've done a lot of transition work.
So, I don't see any difficulty in this process, that's partly because of the great people involved, and the great relationships we all have with each other.
QUESTION: Congratulations, Bill, on your new career.
It seems like there's been a disconnect lately between the enthusiasm you guys have for all the cool new products you're developing and the way Wall Street and the public and even some of your employees feel about the company. I wonder how this leadership reorganization will affect that disconnect and perception.
I'm also curious to know, Bill, if you're going to move to Seattle now that you're going to work on that side of the lake. (Laughter.)
STEVE BALLMER: Well, I was going to -- go ahead. You can decide whether you move in a minute. (Laughter.) His house isn't very mobile would be my observation.
Yeah, you take a look and say how is the company performing, and I think our company has performed very well. We have the strongest position we've ever had with our business customers, primarily with Xbox but also with IPTV. I think we're really on a roll, making great progress on the entertainment side of our business. We certainly have done a very good job competitively over the last few years with the competition we faced from Linux and Open Office and a number of other things.
And we have some opportunities to do better in some of the areas. I suspect always if we're a great company there's always something you can do better while you're doing a number of things very, very well. As Bill highlighted, the financial results have been good.
So we're going to continue to build on the great strength that we have. Stock markets do what they do, that's their job. Certainly we have announced and have been executing as a company on a buyback program. As of the end of March we have bought a bunch of stock, you can see we bought at prices higher than today's price. That certainly tells you something about how Bill and I and our board of directors feels about the opportunities in the company.
QUESTION: How long is your vacation and you said it's unusually long, and where are you going?
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