What struck me most is that the following was clearly a pride point of the culture at MSFT: "The company is owned (a key issue) and operated by software wizard

What struck me most is that the following was clearly a pride point of the culture at MSFT: "The company is owned (a key issue) and operated by software wizards: Bill Gates and Paul Allen." Not anymore. Company is now run by a professional bean counter brought into that position by the former software whiz.