Who Will Fill Bill Gates’ Shoes?

Today, Bill Gates is retiring as an employee of Microsoft to focus on his philanthropic foundation. More than any other single person, Gates defined the PC era. His products touch nearly every computer user on the planet. And he created what is still the biggest technology wealth machine in Microsoft. But now that he is leaving, who will fill his shoes?

I don’t mean who will fill his shoes at Microsoft. Gates stepped back from day-to-day management years ago, handing his business responsibilities to CEO Steve Ballmer and technology responsibilities to chief software architect Ray Ozzie. What I mean is: Who will carry on his legacy and define the current Web era of computing?

It is unlikely there will ever be another Bill Gates if for the only reason that Gates’ influence stemmed from his control of the computing platform of choice (the PC, through Windows). The computing platform of choice today is the Web, and no single person or company can control that. But there are plenty of Web company founders out there—from large companies to small startups—that are turning the Web into a platform for applications and creating new kinds of software as a result.

In fact, there are many application platforms emerging on the Web. There is Facebook and Open Social for social networking apps. Salesforce.com AppExchange for enterprise apps. And more generic cloud computing services such as Amazon’s Web Services and Google’s App Engine for any kind of app. And soon these will be extended to mobile devices as well with the iPhone and Google’s Android.

The resulting software being built on top of these and other Web platforms is qualitatively different than PC software. It is connected to other software and other people. That makes it inherently social and driven by communications rather than productivity. It can also be taken apart and spread to other Websites, or even put back on the desktop, in the form of widgets.

So who is filling Gates’ shoes? Lots of people are collectively, starting with Google’s Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, and Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Slide’s Max Levchin, and Twitter’s Evan Williams. These are some of the names we came up with for Reuters, who asked us to put together a list of “Entrepreneurs to watch” box, which you can read on Reuters as part of its Bill Gates coverage (it’s the interactive box at the bottom of the page).

Below after the break are the people we chose, along with why we chose them. This is just a representative sample, and was written for a general audience. Add your own candidates in comments along with why you think they deserve to be recognized.

Bill Gates to sign off at Microsoft

That’s right, Bill Gates is retiring from Microsoft and spend his time guiding the world’s richest philanthropy – the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

While Bill will still be Microsoft’s chairman and largest shareholder, Friday was his last day as a full-time worker at Microsoft, marking the unofficial end of his career, running the world’s largest software company.

Much can be said about Microsoft’s success, given that more than 90 percent of the world’s computers (today) run on Microsoft software.

In all honestly, I’m kinda sad that Bill is ‘leaving’ Microsoft, but I’m also glad that he will be joining his wife full time to the now $37 billion foundation they created a decade ago, I can imagine his full focus at the foundation will see huge leaps in areas of charity work aimed at improving healthcare and eradicating extreme poverty in the third world.

Benefits of Microsoft India Original Software

Original Software brings with it a number of advantages for you and your family. An IDC study reveals that nearly 25% of the Websites offering pirated software attempted to install malicious or potentially unwanted software. 59% of the key generators from peer-to-peer networks contained malicious software.

Original Microsoft Software comes with the assurance that it is not inflicted with any viruses. Applications such as Windows Defender and the latest security features in Internet Explorer keep your PC protected at all times, and ensure that your family also doesn’t fall prey to any malicious tools.

Original Microsoft Windows Vista comes in-built with a number of features to protect your family such as:

• Parental Controls that allow you to control the Website and type of content that your children view.

• Restricted Internet Access Filters that allow you to specify the time of day that Internet access is allowed.

• Administrative controls allow you to disable rights to other family member to install new software, thereby preventing any accidental installation of spyware or malware.

Updates and security patches to the Windows Operating System and Microsoft Office are only available to customers who are using Original Microsoft Software. These updates ensure that your system is up-to-date thereby boosting performance and protecting from any viruses or spyware.

Some of the updates and downloads available to only Original Microsoft Software users are:

1. Windows Media Player 11

2. Windows Defender

3. Windows Vista Gadget Gallery

4. Over 150,000 free image and sounds for use with Microsoft Office.

5. Thousands of free templates to use with Microsoft Office.

6. Free Updates for Windows

7. Free Updates for Office

Original Microsoft Software purchased as Retail packs or Fully Packaged Products (FPP) come with a 90-day free support, via phone, starting from either the product activation or the first incident.

• 90 days support from product activation for Windows Vista.

• 90 days support from first incident for the 2007 Microsoft Office system.

You can call our toll-free numbers anytime to avail of this support. If you have purchased Microsoft Software pre-installed on a new PC, you can avail of personal support for a fee though it is best advisable to contact your supplier for support.

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GT Kimberly is an ardent reader & follower of all computer related softwares. He is a user of Microsoft original Software

Google Jumps Into Your Living Room With New Media Server Software (GOOG)

The latest tech giant to eye a seat on your living room couch: Google (GOOG), which has quietly released a new software app called Google Media Server.

What does it do? Not much. Right now, it sits on your Windows computer and lets you stream stuff like Picasa photos and YouTube video to your TV — assuming you have a Sony (SNE) PlayStation 3, a HP (HPQ) television, or a few other gadgets that understand a technology called UPnP, or Universal Plug-and-Play.

Is this the beginning of a Google living room push, where it takes on Apple TV, Netflix streaming gadgets, etc.? Way too early to tell. From what we’ve read so far, this is a very buggy, very bleeding-edge, early-adopter-type product.

It makes sense that Google would want you to have as many ways as possible to watch their YouTube videos (and eventually ads) on your TV. And it’s hard to find a tech company that doesn’t want to be the one to link your TV to the Internet. So Google Media Server could get more sophisticated over time. But asSaul Hansell points out at Bits, it’s also possible that “Google has too many engineers with too little to do.” We look forward to seeing what’s next.

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