Bill Gates to Step Down from Microsoft

Geoffreyerffoeg writes "According to Microsoft PressPass, Bill Gates will be leaving his role at Microsoft in July 2008. He'll be staying with the company, but is also moving to a more fulltime position with the Gates Foundation. 'Microsoft Corp. today announced that effective July 2008 Bill Gates, chairman, will transition out of a day-to-day role in the company to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The company announced a two-year transition process to ensure that there is a smooth and orderly transfer of Gates' daily responsibilities, and said that after July 2008 Gates would continue to serve as the company's chairman and an adviser on key development projects.' CTO Ray Ozzie will assume Gates' role of Chief Software Architect, and CTO Craig Mundie will also take on more leadership responsibility."

Comments

Re:Uhhhh...

[linvir]

creates world's most successful company, becomes world's richest man, leaves day job to spend billions on charity

You left out 'shapes computing the world over' (on the desktop).

Gates kicks ass. He'd be the perfect role model if it weren't for some of his less savoury feats.

Re:He's not leaving

[dar]

And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

Re:He's not leaving

[kfg]

I picture some zealots crushing his tomb stone. . .

Anticipation of that is why he is going into the "philanthropy biz."

It's SOP for those who know their tombstones deserve crushing. Some of them even go so far as to hide their tombs (See Alexander, Temujin, most of the Pharoahs, etc.).

KFG

Gates = modern day Robin Hood

[I'm Don Giovanni]

Those of you calling Gates "evil", "villainous", etc, in order to belittle his philanthropic activities, consider this:
The companies that Gates "crushed" were rich companies whose execs had become rich themselves.
So Gates took from those rich fat cats (through unethical means, according to the Gates haters), and is now giving to the poor. That makes him a high-tech Robin Hood. And just like the government tried to bring down Robin Hood, they tried to bring down Gates. What say you to that? ;-)