{"id":1920,"date":"2008-11-07T09:51:29","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T14:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2008-11-17T15:37:33","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T20:37:33","slug":"what-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1920","title":{"rendered":"What Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/billgates.jpg\" title=\"Gates, wistful\u2026.\" alt=\"Gates, wistful\u2026.\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On July 1, 2008, Bill Gates, above, stepped down from full-time work at Microsoft Corporation, the company he founded with friend Paul Allen in April 1975. How does his departure affect the now-and-future direction of this corporate behemoth, a company whose software runs over 90% of the world&#8217;s computers, with assets of over $70 billion, and whose market capitalization approaches a quarter of a <em>trillion<\/em> dollars?<\/p>\n<p>This is the fundamental question Mary Jo Foley provocatively addresses in her new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiley.com\/WileyCDA\/WileyTitle\/productCd-0470191384.html\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era<\/em><\/a>. Foley is a guest, today, on my WBAI-NY \/ 99.5 FM radio show, NONFICTION, this afternoon, Friday, November 7, 2 pm ET.<\/p>\n<p>Then, Alisa Lagamma, curator of a show running at  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\"  target=\"_blank\">the Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/Special\/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId=%7B6EB15EDD-CFF8-4E7B-AA28-573CAB5230D5%7D\"  target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End,&#8221;<\/a> will talk about the exhibition and the wide universe of visual materiel the continent&#8217;s cloths present.<\/p>\n<p>You can hear their ideas by tuning in at 2 pm. If you&#8217;re outside of the New York tri-state, you can check out <a href=\"http:\/\/stream.wbai.org\"  target=\"_blank\">our stream<\/a> on the web. If you miss the live show, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.wbai.org\/allshows.php\"  target=\"_blank\">our archive<\/a> for up to two weeks after broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 1, 2008, Bill Gates, above, stepped down from full-time work at Microsoft Corporation, the company he founded with friend Paul Allen in April 1975. How does his departure affect the now-and-future direction of this corporate behemoth, a company whose software runs over 90% of the world&#8217;s computers, with assets of over $70 billion, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,21,47,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}