Friday, June 20th 2008
Bye Bye Bill...
Thursday 19th June 2008, for some a sad day, for some a momentous day in history.
Bill Gates has officialy retired from his duties at Microsoft. He insists it’s not actually a retirement, more a ‘re-ordering of my priorities’. A nice way of putting it.
When Bill announced plans to step back from the running of Microsoft, he had become the world’s richest man, with a fortune of $50bn (£27bn) and a new idea for changing the world: giving it all to charity. He will gradually hand over day-to-day responsibilities at Microsoft to a new generation of executives, leaving him with more time to spend with his family foundation. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation aims to funnel his fortune – 95 per cent of it, by the end of his life, he says – to projects that promote health and education for all.
Not bad for a Harvard drop-out.
Thursday 19th June was also the day I started using Apple’s Keynote software (an alternative to Microsoft’s Powerpoint) with some fantastic results!
Maybe Bill’s software will be put into a corner of the room to enjoy retirement too!
Posted by Richard on Friday 20th of June 2008 at 11:49am
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