Bill Gates Bids Adieu
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The Co-founder of Microsoft and one of the driving force in the company, Bill Gates spends his last day at the office on Friday. Bill Gates who was famous for his boyish face and nerdy manner epitomized the US software colossus. However Gates, aged 52, will remain the chairman of the Microsoft board of directors and the company's largest shareholder.
Gates will now turn his attention to the philanthropic organisation "Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation" he established with his wife which is by the way, the world's biggest philanthropic organisation.
Paul Allen, who teamed with Gates to start Microsoft in a garage in 1975, will be among those attending his farewell party at a gala dinner affair Friday night.
Gates leaves Microsoft in a time when the computer era is changing rapidly with new inventions being done every now and then and challenges from Internet Superpower "Google" and long time rival "Apple" (who make Macintosh Computers) are increasing slowly.
3 top executives from Microsoft will look into the duties of Bill Gates namely Ray Ozzie who will take over the duties of Chief Software Architect, Craig Mundie who will look into Bill Gates's chief research and strategy officer duties and Steve Ballmer who will be the CEO of Microsoft Corporation headquartered at Redmond, Washington.
Microsoft is losing Gates at a time when "cloud computing" (E.g. Google Docs) is fast becoming the next big thing and shaking the "packaged software" foundation (Microsoft Office comprising of Word, Excel and Powerpoint etc) on which the company's fortune is built and also Windows Vista has flopped big time with users still preferring its previous version Windows XP and also when Microsoft Zune, once considered iPod's competitor, has failed to create an impact.
But after 33 years at the helm of the company he co-founded with Paul Allen after dropping out of Harvard in 1975, Gates, who has virtually achieved his initial goal of putting a PC in every home, will leave the problems for someone else to sort out.
BYE BYE!!! Bill Gates, we will miss you.
Gates will now turn his attention to the philanthropic organisation "Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation" he established with his wife which is by the way, the world's biggest philanthropic organisation.Paul Allen, who teamed with Gates to start Microsoft in a garage in 1975, will be among those attending his farewell party at a gala dinner affair Friday night.
Gates leaves Microsoft in a time when the computer era is changing rapidly with new inventions being done every now and then and challenges from Internet Superpower "Google" and long time rival "Apple" (who make Macintosh Computers) are increasing slowly.
3 top executives from Microsoft will look into the duties of Bill Gates namely Ray Ozzie who will take over the duties of Chief Software Architect, Craig Mundie who will look into Bill Gates's chief research and strategy officer duties and Steve Ballmer who will be the CEO of Microsoft Corporation headquartered at Redmond, Washington.
Microsoft is losing Gates at a time when "cloud computing" (E.g. Google Docs) is fast becoming the next big thing and shaking the "packaged software" foundation (Microsoft Office comprising of Word, Excel and Powerpoint etc) on which the company's fortune is built and also Windows Vista has flopped big time with users still preferring its previous version Windows XP and also when Microsoft Zune, once considered iPod's competitor, has failed to create an impact.
But after 33 years at the helm of the company he co-founded with Paul Allen after dropping out of Harvard in 1975, Gates, who has virtually achieved his initial goal of putting a PC in every home, will leave the problems for someone else to sort out.
BYE BYE!!! Bill Gates, we will miss you.
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