Today is the last day billg will be working full time at the company he founded, Microsoft. Next week he will begin full time work at The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, while still spending one day a week at Microsoft working on various projects of interest (read: touch computing).
Gates dropped out of Harvard in 1975 to develop a BASIC interpreter for the Altar 8800. Then, proving that college degrees are for suckers, he created the largest software corporation in the world, becoming one of the richest people in the world in the process. Regardless of your personal feelings towards Microsoft products, it is undeniable that the computing experience you have today, regardless of platform, was significantly shaped by William Henry Gates III.
Gates remains Chairman of Microsoft, and day to day operation is left in the hands of CEO Steve Ballmer. Gates current role as Chief Software Architect at Microsoft goes to Ray Ozzie.
PS: A little know fact I discovered on the Wikipedia entry for billg. Bill wrote the class selection algorithm for his high school, adding an extra feature, "so that he was placed in classes with mostly female students". GG Bill.
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the Internet runs on MS. Praise it.
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