Should Microsoft fire Bill Gates too?

Should Bill Gates Be Removed? Steve Ballmer has been booted as CEO at Microsoft. Now should Bill Gates be removed from Microsoft's board of directors? Datamation thinks he should be given his walking papers and sent on his way. What Microsoft needs now is a bold leader with a clue, not another yes-man personally selected by Gates. The next CEO needs to solve Microsoft’s historic inability to launch products based on its own research. He or she needs to get desktop touch computing into the hands of consumers. And most of all, Microsoft needs to figure out how to ship great products before or at the same time as comparable products from Apple and Google, not several years later. But even the best leader will fail if Microsoft’s founder, former CEO and board chairman continues to use his outsized influence to push the wrong products -- or the right products at the wrong time -- based on his tone deaf inability to understand …