Microsoft After Gates (And Bill After Microsoft)

Published Jun 21, 2008 at 9:26 AM EDT Updated Jul 01, 2010 at 1:40 PM EDT In some respects, this week won't be terribly different for Bill Gates than the previous 1,712 weeks he has spent working full-time at Microsoft, the company he co-founded as a teenager. The 52-year-old icon has some one-on-one meetings scheduled with a few of his top technical executives. He has some customer meetings. And,

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Steven Levy reviews Bill Gates, "To Gates, such pressure is business as usual: it has always been this way. (...) "Every year that we've existed, we've had the excitement that this is a fast-changing business. This wouldn't be a fun business if it wasn't always risky," he says."

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Steven Levy cites Bill Gates:""In no sense would I say, 'Oh, I'm making a sacrifice because it's something my mother told me I ought to do'," Gates says. "I am doing something my mother told me I ought to do, but it's going to be a lot of fun. And I feel good about the impact as well.""