The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
A man who understands the money game all too
well, Gates watched as Google made money from the Internet hand over
fist. Meanwhile Microsoft continued to lose money on anything to do
with the Internet and could only succeed in making money from desktop
and server software.
Gates also watched as Google listed with great success in 2004 and has continued to grow at astonishing pace ever since.
Gates also watched as Microsoft's last great Wintel project Vista
turned into a disappointing flop, with many users and pundits believing
that it offered no significant improvements over Windows XP. Similar
things could said for Office 2007.
Customised Linux desktops and open source office products alone pose no
real threat to Microsoft's desktop dominance. However, the emergence of
cloud computing is what Gates has been worried about since 1995.
Google, he recognised, is the quintessential cloud computing company.
It is making Microsoft's business model obsolete and Gates knows it.
At 52, Bill Gates is still a relatively young man - certainly too young
to retire. Gates is known to have a strong work ethic. However, when it
comes to computing, unlike the continually self-reinventing Steve Jobs,
Gates is no longer a man of his time and he knows it. That's why he has
left the company he co-founded.
As for Microsoft, CEO Steve Ballmer once called Google a
one-trick-pony. In fact, Ballmer, chief software architect Ray Ozzie,
and the rest of the Microsoft senior crew now have the job ahead of
them to prove that Microsoft is more than just Bill Gates'
one-trick-pony.
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