Exclusive: Microsoft investors push for chairman Gates to step down

Bears repeating:

"This is long overdue," said Todd Lowenstein, a portfolio manager at HighMark Capital Management, which owns Microsoft shares. "Replacing the old guard with some fresh eyes can provide the oxygen needed to properly evaluate their corporate strategy."

Hmmm...

While the 800-pound gorilla is away (screwing up public education), the rats will play?

Bill Gates...

Dinosaur!

Defender of the status quo...

Allowing upstarts like Apple and Google to surge ahead in the technology field.

After extensive research (hey, at least 30 minutes!)...

...here's some "data" to ponder.

Oh, and a headline to die for:

From The Seattle Times

Goldman Sachs: Microsoft has gone from 97 percent share of compute market to 20 percent