Friday, June 16, 2006

Vale billg!

So Bill is reprioritising his life. He's swapping his failure to stem the tide of computer viruses for vaccination programmes against human ones.

Actually it is too easy to mock Gates's tenure at MicroSoft. Nobody makes that much money without getting a lot of things right. On the same day as Gates made this announcement Joel Spolsky publishes an article recalling his time managing the Excel team. In it he explains just what it was that made billg so good.

2 comments:

Laurent Schneider said...

interesting explanation of the Excel Day 60 bug :-)

Bill said...

I try not to jump on the Spolsky band-wagon, but he always manages to turn out an interesting piece. The software company I work for has a CEO who'd never sent an email until a year ago. I'd love to point the management team to these sort of articles but I'd probably get shot for treason.