Departure of the founding fathers.

Bill Gates has taken the leadership of Microsoft delivered, Steve Jobs is leaving Apple a piecemeal way. The charismatic founder generation of the PC era is starting, and successor of the same caliber is not in sight. If the computer is boring?

 

With ten authored Bill Gates already has a legally watertight contract that gives him five U.S. dollars for unlimited access to the baseball glove of his sister Kristi assured. At 14 he founded with his school friend Paul Allen, the company Traf-O-Data, and developed a computer system for traffic studies. Then Bill Gates has made Microsoft the largest software companies in the world and themselves to the richest man on the planet.

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Many saw in him an idol, an immensely successful programmers and entrepreneurs - the King of the Nerds, with the new digital machines requires. On 27 June 2008 Gates had the last working day in his company. In future he wants the whole with his wife founded Foundation devote to the health care and education projects in developing countries care.

Now, even Apple's Alpha-person Steve Jobs announced his withdrawal. At the beginning of the year, he had even his traditional Macworld Keynote-out, which from the Apple community as an annual mini-Woodstock was celebrated. By the summer jobs will relate solely to his health and his family take care.

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After the official announcement of provisional broke off Apple's shares by almost ten percent. While Apple's shiny because economically, it touched on the idea that future nameless product manager with the fate of the company's attention to the cold touch of a sense of crisis not only exchange specialists, but also the community of Mac and iPod owners and other computer faiths. We experience a Götterdämmerung of the computer industry? What we lose with the sheen of the popular IT-pioneers and superstars? If the computer now ... boring?

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