Sneak assumes everyone but sand-dabbling ostriches will have heard by now that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is to spend more time with his money, leaving the day-to-day whatever-it-is-that-he’s-been-doing entirely to others from July 2008. You’d have thought it would be long faces all round at Redmond, but no. As a picture released by the Microsoft spin machine proves, much hilarity was had by all on the occasion of the announcement. Looking at the picture - of a laughing Gates, screaming chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie, chuckling chief software architect Ray Ozzie and smirking CEO Steve Ballmer - Sneak does wonder what the joke was, aside from Bill’s frightful sweater. Send Sneak your suggestions for what the fearsome foursome have been up to, in the form of a caption or other means of conveying your notion of topical hilarity.
19 Jun 2006