New Era of Technical Leadership at Microsoft
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BILL GATES: Yeah, I've never taken more than a two-week vacation, and this time it will actually be about seven weeks, so that is very long. A little bit of that will be in Africa. Actually, I'll be doing some Microsoft stuff while I'm there, but we have a Government Leaders Forum that's the first couple of days that I'm over there, and then actually a fair bit of it I'll be here in Seattle enjoying the Seattle summer.
STEVE BALLMER: Just for technical accuracy, that vacation predates all of this discussion. It's well earned, it's something Bill and Melinda have wanted to do for a long time.
QUESTION: Obviously you're preparing the company to make the transition. What will it be like for you personally to move on? Do you yet have a grasp psychologically for what it will be like for you to move beyond Microsoft in a certain way?
BILL GATES: No, I don't, but I'd emphasize the strength of the connection that I will always have with this company, and the excitement I have about the things that this company is doing and the people that are here.
I don't know what it's going to feel like not to come in here every day and work 10 hours and just have that as a simple decision thing, okay, what am I doing today, oh, get over there and work my 10, 11 hours, and do my best, send a lot of e-mail, meet with some of the best engineers.
I have a sense of what it's like to do Foundation work, because I have squeezed that in part time and I look at that in a lot of ways like the work at Microsoft, you need people there who are experts in their field. But I think it will probably take me a while, just like it did six years ago when I switched not to be CEO, this will be one where it might take me a year, a year and a half to actually get a sense of how to work best both in my time at Microsoft and in this role at the Foundation.
To be clear, I'm not going to run the Foundation, the Foundation is being run super well by Patty Stonecipher, and that continues. I have the same sort of chairman-type strategy, advice role there that I've had here.
So a little bit of an unknown there, and because I've got two years, I don't -- in some ways don't even want to go there, because I'll see what that's like when I get there.
QUESTION: (Off mike).
BILL GATES: At this time there's no plan to do anything in terms of taking Microsoft shares and moving those into the Foundation. I took the dividends was the last thing I took, and actually I still have a little bit of that that's flowing into the Foundation over the next year. But other than that, there's nothing imminent along those lines.
Now, as the shareholder, personal shareholder, I see myself always being the largest shareholder of Microsoft. I'm proud of that, and Steve is the second largest, and I think we both take a lot of pride in that, so that's something I want to maintain.
LARRY COHEN: We've got time for one more question, and we'll take that over the phone as well.
QUESTION: (Off mike).
BILL GATES: Okay, so the big thing for Microsoft is not so much about the competitors, it's about the way that software, partly because of hardware advances, and partly because of software breakthroughs, that software can do new things. You know, we talked about our incubation groups, we have an incubation group under Research that's working on robotics. We're not going to get anything out of that right away, but that's this neat new area. We have a group working on language translation where you can take and go from one language to another. There's a lot of things that have to do with vision, that as cameras can recognize things and decide who's who or we get speech recognition working, the shape of computing and how software will change entertainment and business, we really are just at the beginning of that.
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