[panick21_]

He pushed the same thing at HP as well. And the left Microsoft soon after as well.

I think its more like that he was brought in by the board because those were his opinions.

The board was sick of paying for development of MIPS and IRIX. The believed their future was massive multicore Itanium Windows IT systems. And because they wouldn't do any of the development but would make the same kind of profits, they would just print money.

This of course backfired in a whole bunch of different ways.