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Renee Oricchio

Bill Gates' First Week of Retirement From Microsoft

 

It's hump day, unless you're Bill Gates. For him, it's just another day; no longer working full-time at Microsoft.

I have no idea what Bill's really up to this week; his first week post-Microsoft. But here are some ideas:

- More time to deal with the blue screen of death on his PC.
- Upgrading to Vista? Nah!
- Calling his geek buddies to see if they want to camp out next week at the local Apple store to be the first in line for the new iPhone 3G when they hit shelves on the 11th.
- Finally has time to see how Halo 3 ends.
- Agitated, with a perpetual caffeine headache; no more free soft drinks from any of the Microsoft employee lounges.
- Crank calls to Ballmer.


Renee Oricchio is a technology writer and former supervising news producer for CNN Financial News. She has been covering the computer industry since 1987. @oricchio