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To: Thure Meyer who wrote (23376)	5/31/1999 1:53:00 AM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

>>Nathan Myhrvold << That guy never impressed me. I think Ballmer is the one with the vision. Believe it or not, I think Gates has gotten "stodgy." Gates really should leave and go buy Disney and Ballmer should run MSFT. I'll bet you'd see a radical change in MSFT's business practices, but unless something like this actually happens, we'll never know. FWIW Andy

To: Thure Meyer who wrote (23376)	5/31/1999 2:11:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

Thure - I don't think so. Ballmer has been looking at ROI on the huge MSFT R&D for a while, according to folks inside the company. Myhrvold had been "off in his own world" for a long time and missed a number of key technology transitions according to these guys. I wonder if Rick Rashid will take over as CTO. I was impressed by Rashid's work on the MACH kernel (and high performance microkernel architecture in general) when he was at CMU. I was always amazed that MSFT would have gotten someone of Rashid's talent and then failed to get him more deeply involved in their own OS architecture. His papers on the MACH 3.0 kernel vs. small monolithc OS designs were first rate.

To: Thure Meyer who wrote (23376)	6/1/1999 4:23:00 AM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Fallout from the trial? Nathan Myhrvold didn't have anything to do with the trial. Just one more of many high-level executives that have left since Ballmer took over. Myhrvold had already been booted off the executive committee as part of the reorg, so I guess the bulls-eye for the final kick was in place already. I still don't much trust Ballmer to be able to do it all by himself, and it's starting to seem more and more like that's just what he's trying to do. Perhaps, though, it's just a necessary housecleaning.