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Bill Gates' worst decisions as CEO, according to a longtime Microsoft ex


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Bill Gates served as Microsoft CEO for nearly 25 years, until he stepped down in 2000. "Top of the list for me is that Bill did not engage - either himself or the company - in the political process early enough. When Microsoft’s competitors were effectively lobbying the government, Bill’s attitude was the government should just go away and leave Microsoft alone," Silverberg wrote in a Quora Q&A session held Friday. In 2000, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled that Microsoft broke antitrust law by unfairly bundling Internet Explorer with Windows.

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