For employees at Microsoft, see Palmer withdraws from his post as director of the company Tida and then a final departure was something very surprising, especially after taking a leading position in the company for a period of not less than 14 years.

Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer were like brothers to each other, as everyone knows, but Palmer recently revealed that he and Bill Gates are no longer truthful close anymore, and that he had lost communication with him after he left the software giant Microsoft. In an interview with the magazine Bolembrg Palmer said he had a relationship with Bill's grandfather fraternity in good times and in bad times, but the company's investments in the field of mobile electronic and paintings had a bad impact on their relationship. Palmer explains that he was one of the main supporters to make Microsoft more focused on the hardware, while Bill Gates and the company had balked at the idea, resulting in the emergence of an internal debate, which eventually led to his departure from the company. Palmer and expressed regret that despite the loss of a strong relationship with his friend from the old Microsoft is very late in the hardware trade policy, in addition to Microsoft's abject failure in the phone market. It is worth mentioning that one of the most important trends Palmer during functioned MSN was pushing them to sweep the areas of hardware and mobile commerce, something that created an atmosphere flammable, resulting in the latter's withdrawal from the company once and for all.