[CrimsonCape]

I had a thought today, "when is Microsoft and/or Apple going to earnestly search out their next Steve Jobs?"

And I think the answer is that guys like Bill Gates and Tim Cook are too proud, too prideful to admit they are not kickass rockstars of tech, too jealous to find and cultivate their next super-figurehead. Instead they are safe and lame.

Microsoft needs a non-lame, non-MBA, engineer to take control and inject some younger mindset into making themselves cool again, focused back on tech, UI, user experience, and passion. Engineer tooling would be a great approach.

[UncleOxidant]

Gates hasn't been involved in Microsoft technically since 2008 when he stepped down as chief software architect. It doesn't make sense that he's somehow standing in the way.

[cjbgkagh]

That was supposed to be Scott Guthrie but he got pulled into the Azure whirlpool.