Bill Gates steps down, Microsoft loses founder
- added June 22, 2008
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You may love or you may hate him, but you’d have to be living under a rock — without an Internet connection — not to know who Bill Gates is.
Gates was for years the world’s richest man, even if it wasn’t a mantle he wore gladly. He earned his billions by co-founding Microsoft Corp., a company whose technology — again — may be loved or may be hated but almost can’t be avoided in modern society.
Now he’s poised to leave his full-time work at Microsoft to spend most of his energy on another endeavor that fuels the public’s fascination with him: the world's biggest philanthropy, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, funded largely by his own fortune.
Chances are, his new job won’t do much to diminish the world’s obsession with him. For many, the mystique starts with one simple fact: all that money.
“If he was the third-richest man in the world, I don’t think there would be anything near the mystique around Bill Gates that there is,” said Gary Rivlin, a journalist and author of “The Plot to Get Bill Gates.”
In fact, Gates did fall to the No. 3 spot this year, according to Forbes magazine. Still, Forbes estimated that his fortune stands at about $58 billion, and his name is forever associated with the many years he ranked as the world’s richest person.
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Source: MSNBC, Associated Press
In full disclosure MSNBC is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal.
We''ll miss you Bill. Even if Vista sucks.
Gates was for years the world’s richest man, even if it wasn’t a mantle he wore gladly. He earned his billions by co-founding Microsoft Corp., a company whose technology — again — may be loved or may be hated but almost can’t be avoided in modern society.
Now he’s poised to leave his full-time work at Microsoft to spend most of his energy on another endeavor that fuels the public’s fascination with him: the world's biggest philanthropy, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, funded largely by his own fortune.
Chances are, his new job won’t do much to diminish the world’s obsession with him. For many, the mystique starts with one simple fact: all that money.
“If he was the third-richest man in the world, I don’t think there would be anything near the mystique around Bill Gates that there is,” said Gary Rivlin, a journalist and author of “The Plot to Get Bill Gates.”
In fact, Gates did fall to the No. 3 spot this year, according to Forbes magazine. Still, Forbes estimated that his fortune stands at about $58 billion, and his name is forever associated with the many years he ranked as the world’s richest person.
End of Excerpt
Source: MSNBC, Associated Press
In full disclosure MSNBC is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal.
We''ll miss you Bill. Even if Vista sucks.
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world's biggest philanthropy... what a stand up guy. still, i wonder what steve jobs thinks about this.
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- bishopobispo
- 1 month ago
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He's earned his place in history forever.
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- keithponder
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I use Linux and Freebsd for my computing needs, and I have almost forgotten all about windows os using my Linux Laptop :)
Bill also was on a board for an insurance company, I think the last share trade was +239.00 dollars for the day. That stock goes for 87000.00 a share? something insane like that.
As for Bill Gates and giving the world back some, he should, he robbed people into using a pay4it OS.
Njoy,
Oly
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