Bill Gates is pretty much synonymous with Microsoft Corp., which he co-founded and built into the world's largest software vendor and the IT industry's most influential company. But Gates is stepping away from his day-to-day role at Microsoft at the end of this month. Here's a brief history of his 33 years at the company.
Love him? Hate him? Adore him? Happy to see him go? It makes no difference. Bill Gates is a man who was in the right place at the right time and translated that into an influence on the way we all live our lives. At the end of this month he will stop day-to-day activities at Microsoft (he remains Chairman) and spend his time at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Those of us who cut our teeth on DOS will forever remember Bill Gates as the man who impacted our career, and he definitely made being a nerd more acceptable.
The link above is well worth a read, especially if you did not know the early, pre-Windows days of Microsoft.
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