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Bill Gates announces retirement
Why did Bill Gates decide to walk away from full-time work at Microsoft - the software giant he founded 30 years ago--in favor of a new career as a full-time philanthropist?
Gates himself didn't offer much of an answer last week. Most commentators have been so busy picking apart the strategic implications for Microsoft (relatively minor) that they haven't tried to probe the private motivations of the world's richest man.
But for those of us who have watched Gates redefine himself over the years, there are plenty of clues. No younger upstart pushed him out; after all, Gates is still Microsoft's biggest shareholder and can do anything he wants at the company. Instead, his choice reflects how much his dreams and opportunities have changed in the two main arenas of his life.
Walk around Microsoft's Redmond, Wash., campus, and you can tell right away that you're at a mature, slow-growth company. Huge teams of people worry about how to upgrade long-established products so that existing customers will buy them one more time. There's a dash to the parking lot at quitting time. Employees grumble that the stock isn't going up and that their once-magnificent equity compensation packages have lost their luster.
Read Full Article here: Forbes
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WinFX is Now the .NET Framework 3.0
When speaking to developers about WinFX one question that repeatedly comes up is, “WinFX sounds great, but what happens to .NET?” .NET Framework has becomes the most successful developer platform in the world. Developers know and love .NET.
The .NET Framework has always been at the core of WinFX, but the WinFX brand didn’t convey this. The WinFX brand helped us introduce the incredible innovations in terms of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and the newly christened Windows CardSpace (WCS) formerly known under the codename “InfoCard.” The brand also created an unnatural discontinuity between previous versions of our framework and the current version.
With this in mind we have decided to rename WinFX to the .NET Framework 3.0. .NET Framework 3.0 aptly identifies the technology for exactly what it is – the next version of our developer framework.
Read Full Article here: MSDN
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Richmond Code Camp 2!!
Code Camp is by developers, and for developers...it's an idea that started in the Eastern U.S. and has taken hold throughout various development communities in the U.S., and around the world. For more information on Code Camp and its origins, please visit http://www.bostondotnet.org/codecamp/default.aspx/CodeCamp/CodeCampManifesto.html
The general goal of Code Camps is to provide an intensive developer-to-developer learning experience that is fun and technically stimulating. Code Camp is created and run by and for the local community. This is your event. The primary focus is on delivering programming information and sample code that can be used immediately. The event and all slides, CD’s and demo code are provided free to all attendees.
This one day camp is to be hosted at the ECPI Technical College in Richmond, VA. More information can be found at http://www.richmondcodecamp.org/, and http://www.madcodecamp.com/.
When: 10/7/2006
Source: MSDN
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