After 30 years of heading the most successful software business in world history and with his goal of seeing a computer in every home almost complete, Microsoft’s Bill Gates will step down as that company’s leader to concentrate soley on charitable work.
This comes after the announcement just this week that there are now 1 billion personal computers in the world with that number expected to double in just a little over 5 years and Gates’ operating software governs the majority of them, making him and his wife Melinda, two of the richest people to have ever lived on the planet. Only King Solomon, Warren Buffett and Middle Eastern oil sheiks meander in that kind of territory.
Gates, now just 52, will spend his time working much closer with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation dedicated to fighting disease worldwide with innovative new vaccines and helping third-world nations become a part of the 21st Century with the introduction of new technologies to help build a nation’s infrastructure and better delivery of much needed services to the people.
You know, you can slam the guy all you want, but this is a pretty commendable decision. Kudos!
I am going to go ask him for a charitable donation to the gay rugby club….mebbe we will become…THE MOSTEST WELL FUNDED AMATEUR RUGBY CLUB EVAR!
I just have to come up with a reason he would.
I’m with JFStan. Whether you like his company/software or not, it has certainly been lucrative, and I’m glad to see him doing good things with his massive fortune. Hopefully, the foundation is coordinating with Doctors Without Borders on the vaccine front. I would imagine they know where which medicines are most needed.