Bill Gates: I absolutely support Nadella in dumping Xbox

"Gates, the founder and former CEO of Microsoft, said he’s been helping new CEO Satya Nadella transition into his new leadership role and that he would support Nadella if the new CEO proposed a spinoff of one of Microsoft’s units. But Gates said he didn’t foresee either Bing, the company’s search engine division, or Xbox, its gaming division, as potential stand-alone companies because they are part of Microsoft’s long-term strategy."

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#JumpOut

We don't need three different threads on this topic.Discuss this in one of the other threads.

Unlocking this one to allow people to discuss because at least it provided some context ... TC a better link if and when available would be nice.

Is this real?

I would like to see a real statement from Billy.....this doesn't mean shit right now.

Also get ready for a complete misinterpretation and overreaction in 3 ... 2 ... 1...

but that's what makes system wars fun lol.

Why did she @ warren buffet is he the buyer? Lol

So I guess Nadella saying he'd rather focus on Xbox than spin it off means nothing anymore LOL

Keep grasping cows

Microsoft won't spin off the xbox division anytime soon.Gates is just supporting whatever vision Nadella has for the xbox.

but then u get the morons who don't read anything properly, put it to context and don't read the follow up and repeat the wrong info as if its fact for eternity *hangs head*

Gates is just really trying to appear as if he stands by and trusts Nadella. It would make Microsoft look bad and worry shareholders if he didn't.

The more important part of TC's posts is "But Gates said he didn’t foresee either Bing, the company’s search engine division, or Xbox, its gaming division, as potential stand-alone companies because they are part of Microsoft’s long-term strategy"

And according to the TC's quote, Bing and Xbox are in MS's long term strategy....or are my reading comprehension skills lacking?

In b4 cows make this a bad thing.

It would be better for the brand and will allow Xbox to get more focus rather than keeping it with MS (who has its hands in way too many marktets imo)

@blue_hazy_basic: says right in the op Xbox is part of their long term strategy but its as if not reading things is part of the terms when you sign up for this site

Do you know how tweets work? :P She hashed tagged everything she could think of to try and get attention!

Your reading comprehension skills are fine.

Cows on the other hand ....

lol no ****!

lol dumping and spinning off are not the same

lol true. But how it plays out is the entertaining part :P

Lol.

Really though, no big deal. Gates isn't asking for a spinoff. Nadella isn't proposing one either. IF it came up, Gates would go along. It does make some sense for a MS that has to sell a "refocus" of the corporation, but honestly it'd be a pain in the ass to do because they'd have to set it up to be a viable solo business. That gets expensive, and takes time.

And even if it did happen, XBox would still be around. Lems would just lose their favorite talking point when things are looking down: money MS makes from things unrelated to XBox.

Jeez, I have never seen a non story get so many threads in such a short amount of time lol.

Was my fault, not supers :D

2nd part more important than the first.

@Desmonic said:

@chikenfriedrice said:

I would like to see a real statement from Billy.....this doesn't mean shit right now.

"Billy"....hmmmm.....

Good find

This is why I keep coming back to Gamespot. The comedy here is golden. Bill Gates basically saying he supports the new CEO, and if he decides to spinoff one of the divisions he would support it. This somehow equals "absolutely supporting" the dumping of the Xbox division.

Straws grasped...confirmed....lol. Fanboy delusions also confirmed...

Essentially though, Gates has given Nadella the green light for the execution, whether it will happen or not is a different ball game. We'll just have to see how itchy Nadella's trigger finger gets as we move on :P.

Cable Guy....very underrated flick

I'm also in support of this decision, the Xbox division will be a spinoff company

The moderators of System Wars continue to mollycoddle Microsoft.

But Gates said he didn’t foresee either Bing, the company’s search engine division, or Xbox, its gaming division, as potential stand-alone companies because they are part of Microsoft’s long-term strategy

The former CEO can give the current CEO the green light to do something?

All Gates did was tell shareholders he believes in Nadella's ability. If Xbox is in Microsoft's long term strategy why would they spinoff all of a sudden?

hhahahahaha this is hilarious, after all the doom talk lems do for sony it seems xbox is more dispensable to m$ than playstation is for sony hahaha

@Desmonic: The basketball scene was also top notch.

It wouldn't surprise me if someday not long from now Microsoft decides to drop the xbox brand. I mean, MS is trying to take gaming to one direction but the industry is resisting. So there are two possible outcomes in my view: either the industry becomes what MS wants which I doubt and hope not; or the industry decides its own course and MS has to adapt. Now in the second case there's a possibility that MS just doesn't care about the general direction the industry is taking and will decide to drop out of it to pursue other strategies.

I hope this isn't really what you got from the quote. Please tell me you are trolling.

@blue_hazy_basic: Link added

Isn't Gates a majority shareholder? And as I stated "whether it will happen or not is a different ball game".

So much agreement here.

Answering a question affirming you stand behind your new CEO....................

Cows gunna Cow.

cows, continue the circle jerking

Apparently it's better than the person that started this thread.