Bill Gates quits Microsoft - not really, he is still going to be there one day a week to work on projects. I don't get everyones doomy outlook on Microsoft, I guess they've been doing it for the last 6 or 7 years in that respect. Sure there shares are getting hammered and sure the Xbox and Zune haven't exactly made them lots of cash (although the Xbox is doing alright these days), but this is a company that at the core of its business (productivity software) will never be threatened by recession, or commodity prices putting them out of business, they have billion and billions of dollars in the bank, they recently bought back billons of dollars worth of shares, are everyone is still going to run windows products for the next 10 years (well in the corporate sector anyway), when the bear market bottoms out you could make worse purchases.

But still buying tech stocks is always risky, its like banking on my shitbox car to do a 500+ km drive, by all means it looks like it should make it easy, but something unforseen always happens along the way that turns it into a flaming heap.