Bill Gates Moves On From Microsoft

Bill Gates "We've really achieved the ideal of what I wanted Microsoft to become"

For the last 2 years, Microsoft has been preparing themselves for this day...

June 27, 2008

Today Bill Gates will transition out of his day-to-day role at Microsoft, to spend the majority of his time focusing on global health issues, and education work for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Although he will remain Chairman, he will only take part in select projects, chosen with Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO.

This week, Gates stated, "I'll miss doing the work here. This is a big milestone."

For future investments, Gates says he's only interested in "dramatic" scientific breakthroughs... "If somebody says to me 'OK, we can do new cookie stores and we can make zillions', I have no interest in spending a minute on that," he told his home town newspaper, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. "I hope somebody goes and does that, but that's not for me."


Naming the company for its mission of providing microcomputer software, Bill Gates established Microsoft with friend, Paul Allen, back in 1975. Five years later they landed a deal providing operating systems to IBM. Microsoft went public in 1986, and the next year the soaring stock made Bill Gates the youngest self-made billionaire, at the age of just 31 years old.

Picture of Bill Gates, 1987 ->

Gates wrote in his 1995 book, The Road Ahead, "When I was 19, I caught sight of the future and based my career on what I saw. I turned out to have been right."

You can view exclusive childhood pictures of Bill Gates, including a description from Bill Gates himself, describing where, what, how, when, ect:
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/storysupplement/gates_microsoft/index.html

There are also plenty of video footage, and Bill Gates info through this link, on the Microsoft website:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/billg/videos/