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Bill Gates to sign off at Microsoft!!


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The Microsoft co-founder whose boyish face and nerdy manner epitomizes the US software colossus spends his last day at the office on Friday.

Paul Allen, who teamed with Gates to start Microsoft in a garage in 1975, will be among those "roasting" his childhood friend at a gala dinner affair Friday night.

After decades devoted to Microsoft, Gates turns his attention full time to the philanthropic Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation he established with his wife.

Gates leaves Microsoft to wrestle with a fast-changing computer era and growing challenges from Internet juggernaut Google and longtime rival Apple, which makes Macintosh computers.

Three people will essentially fill the void Gates leaves behind at Microsoft.

Gate's job as chief software architect is being handled by Ray Ozzie.

Craig Mundie inherited Gate's chief research and strategy officer duties, while former Harvard University classmate Steve Ballmer is chief executive officer at the software colossus based in Redmond, Washington.

Gates remains chairman of the Microsoft board of directors and its largest shareholder.

Microsoft is losing Gates at a time when "cloud computing" is shaking the packaged software foundation on while the company's fortune is built.
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2 responses // Bill Gates to sign off at Microsoft!!

  • He's contributed so much to philanthropy...
    Spiral9
  • If Gates can help find a cure for malaria, that will make up for all the Blue Screens of Death that have so stressed me out for so many years. Global Warming will drive mosquitoes north.

    Gates also should do something directly about saving Earth from global warming. He has kids, too, and Global Warming will cause massive refugee movement and massive conflicts, starting already with Darfur. Global warming is not going to be pretty.
    CyberCitizen

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