Hal Berenson is a former distinguished engineer at Microsoft who runs a great blog titled Hal2020. _Hal often provides a unique perspective given his experience working at Redmond software giant during the earlier days of the company from 1994 – 2002 and decades previously spend at the Digital Equipment Corporation. _Mr. Bersenson is predicting that Bill Gates will resign from Microsoft as chairman within the year, I find this difficult to believe, but some logical reasoning is provided. _He also predicts what I have heard from my sources, Alan Mulally will be brought to the board: If you want to know why Bill was so emotional at the recent shareholders meeting it was probably because this was likely his last as Microsoft Chairman, not just Steve Ballmer’s last as CEO. First, this_is not about pressure from a couple of investors as was reported a while ago. I believe Bill has come close to giving up the Chairmanship on more than one occasion over the years and now the timing is...

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