Bill Gates Cleans Out His Desk After 30 Years of Innovation [News]

Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 08:35 in Mathematics & Economics

On Friday, the man most responsible for bringing Microsoft Windows into our homes and offices, forever changing the way we live and work, will leave Microsoft after 33 years at the Redmond, Wash., software Goliath. Bill Gates, 52, leaves behind his day-to-day responsibilities at the company he co-founded along with childhood friend Paul Allen in 1975 to become a full-time ambassador of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, which he and his wife established in 2000 to promote health and education worldwide. [More]

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