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Friday 26 October 2007, 3:48 PM

Gates, a geek?

Posted by Tom Espiner

A Microsoft supremo has said that Bill Gates does not help young people's perceptions of IT professionals.

Speaking at a Westminster eForum event on the IT skills crisis, Stephen Uden, head of skills and economic affairs for Microsoft UK, said Gates does not help improve the street cred of the IT industry.

"The IT business needs to roll up its sleeves and address the profound image problems we have," Uden told the eForum delegates. "Ask any young person their image of an IT person, and its someone very geeky. I guess our chairman doesn't help that image," said Uden.

Meanwhile, at the Parliament and Internet conference last week, I spotted Microsoft UK's chief security adviser Ed Gibson having a little snooze - during a presentation by another Microsoft exec. Oops!

Comments on this post

julian

Bill Gates a geek? He's not a geek.

Mark Zuckerberg, I recently came across a video of him launching some new feature of Facebook. Now there's a geek.

Posted by julian on Oct 28, 2007 11:02 PM


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