This is a great, unscripted, interview with Bill Gates about where he sees it all going. It makes me really want to understand Atlas a bit better, and I’m sure it will make AJAX accessible to the masses. Also, I have to agree with a few posters on the site - its nice to hear he reads engadget and news.com, like us mortals.

Also of note is the entire Sharepoint strategy, because it is the strategy of my present employer, IntraLinks.

At least a someone (be it a company or organization) should give me credit for not seeing the value in getting a PhD.

When I see articles like this and this, I wonder why it is that companies are asking for PhDs?

It indicates to me about the ignorance of a corporation and/or organization that requests a PhD when, in reality, many of the duties contained in the job don’t require any of skills that a PhD would have.

Is it just so the company can say ‘we’ve got a PhD working on this’, so that they are legitimize their endeavor?

I think that companies like GE, Google and Yahoo don’t understand what a PhD is.

A PhD means that you’re the world’s #1 expert in your one particular, very small area.

A person with a research Master’s Degree is as broadly educated as someone with a PhD, and had the intelligence not to give up 6 years of their lives. Is a PhD necessary to be a Product Manager? Can’t a good Bachelor’s degree holder create the same value? (This is meant rhetorically.)