He wrote long memos and famously pooh-poohed the internet.

http://www.kenauletta.com/themicrosoftprovocateur.html

Correction: this was before he was sent (banished, the article makes it seem) to Microsoft Research.

When you look up who's at MSFT Research (and there are some truly great minds there -- Leslie Lamport of LaTeX fame for one, I find a certain credence to the theory posited by some that its main function was to take talent off the market.