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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."
This guy wants to quit his day to day responsibilities to give away his money to the less fortunate and all you guys want to do is bash him.
If he would pay his fair share of taxes, rather than laundering all of those copies of Windows through a Nevada shell corporation, then maybe, just maybe, there wouldn't be as many "less fortunate" people.
Don't forget, for every Bill Gates, there have to be many "less fortunate" to be exploited^W marketed to.
This guy wants to quit his day to day responsibilities to give away his money to the less fortunate and all you guys want to do is bash him.
giving away money from a massive fortune that he acquired by taking a gigantic shit on the rest if the computing landscape.
don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.
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