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investors and others had long concluded that Microsoft had thrived

despite increasing pressure both externally and from other directors for

of course. Gates — who has always been and remains the key decision-maker on Microsoft's

said one source with knowledge of the situation. ""But was he as supportive of Ballmer as he had

although they acknowledge that he also did

I'll work closely with the other members of the board to identify a great new

where it has been seen as an unusual slight and a sign of a rift.

including the persistent rumor that Gates had dropped the bomb

interviews with dozens of people inside and outside the

the departure of CEO Steve Ballmer from Microsoft last week was more sudden

Dagle says. ""The next phase of our voyage is to make better use of that data.""

and a new generation of sensors is providing grid

and more recently an outage has struck in the San Diego area.

the last major blackout in the United States

Carreras says. ""One cannot make generic statements on this topic.""

a physicist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee who has conducted similar work2

which increase the instability. The problem is that such orderly networks are always operating near an indefinable

the connections of orderly lattice structures have more critical

which in the real world might mean there is time to diagnose and

a series of errors resulted in the loss of three transmission lines in Ohio over the course of about an