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TIME reported last week that Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold's leave of absence was, according to some sources at the company, engineered by president Steve Ballmer. Myhrvold, who has occasionally written for TIME, assures us--and other Microsoft executives agree--that his leave was his own choice and that he has not been spending half his time on his own outside interests. We did not mean to spoil the joy of his well-earned leave...
After 13 years on the job, 39-year-old Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft's charismatic, multimillionaire chief technology officer and the third most important guy in Redmond, will announce this week his plans to take a sabbatical of undetermined length from his post as head of Microsoft's $3 billion research department. An internal Microsoft memo said there are no plans to replace...
Rumors in Silicon Valley and inside Microsoft abound that the sabbatical is the presentable public face that has been put on a very private ousting orchestrated by Microsoft's president, Steve Ballmer. According to one source, Myhrvold, once hailed as Bill Gates' favorite geek, has been given the golden boot for putting his outside interests before his job. (Not your usual geek, Myhrvold pursues paleontology, cosmology, zoology, Formula One car racing, gourmet cooking and piloting his $38 million Gulfstream jet.) For the past year, Myhrvold has seemed to be on an unofficial sabbatical, out of the office more than...
Talk of his departure heightened when Ballmer formed an inner circle of executives, the Business Leadership Team, and Myhrvold wasn't on it. Moreover, his brother Cameron, with whom he founded Dynamical Systems Inc., which Gates bought in 1986, recently left the company...
...Nathan Myhrvold, chief technology officer for Microsoft, collects old supercomputers