{"id":18061,"date":"2009-08-07T13:48:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T20:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drjimtaylor.com\/blog\/?p=90"},"modified":"2009-08-07T13:48:09","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T20:48:09","slug":"psychology-of-technology-microsoft-has-lost-its-mojo-an-open-letter-to-bill-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/psychology-of-technology-microsoft-has-lost-its-mojo-an-open-letter-to-bill-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology: Microsoft Has Lost Its Mojo: An Open Letter to Bill Gates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dear Bill,<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/drjimtaylor.com\/2.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/bill_gates3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-94\" title=\"bill_gates3\" src=\"http:\/\/drjimtaylor.com\/2.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/bill_gates3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know you&#8217;ve been retired from Microsoft&#8217;s day-to-<!--[if gte vml 1]> <![endif]-->day operations for about a year now and Steve B. is running the show, but you are still Chairman of the Board and the public identity of Microsoft. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m writing you, Bill, because Microsoft is still your company and it needs you. Think modified Pottery Barn rule: <em>you own it, you broke it, you fix it. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>To read the rest of my letter to Bill Gates, please visit my blog <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.computerworld.com\/14505\/microsoft_has_lost_its_mojo_an_open_letter_to_bill_gates\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Bill, I know you&#8217;ve been retired from Microsoft&#8217;s day-to-day operations for about a year now and Steve B. is running the show, but you are still Chairman of the Board and the public identity of Microsoft. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m writing you, Bill, because Microsoft is still your company and it needs you. Think modified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1526],"tags":[17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25],"class_list":["post-18061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bill-gates","tag-bing","tag-john-hodgman","tag-microsoft","tag-mojo","tag-steve-ballmer","tag-vista","tag-windows-7","tag-windows-live-search"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}