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As
of June 27, 2008, Bill Gates was no longer
the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft,
a company he founded and help build for
the last few decades. At the age of 52,
Gates decided to step down from the daily
operations of the software giant and,
instead, focus his time and energy on
his other love: philanthropy.
Although
he chose to maintain his position as Chairman
of Microsoft Board of Directors, and remains
the company's largest shareholder, Gates
stepped down from his position to dedicate
the majority of his time to running the
Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation,
one of the world's largest and richest
philanthropic organizations. Gates stated
that he still planned on spending one
day a week at Microsoft but otherwise
would be engaged in distributing much
needed finances and resources to organizations
all over the world.
As
a Harvard dropout, Gates followed his
vision of streamlining user-friendly software
and helping the average consumer find
efficiency in a personal computer. By
developing consumer software that helped
people create and interact, Gates became
a pioneer in the computer age and has
left a legacy in his wake.
Although
Microsoft saw it's peak in the late 1990s,
it's still a leader in software development
and helped Gates amass a fortune of over
$100 billion, a large percentage of which
went to the foundation. Gate's successor,
Steve Ballmer, took over as CEO when Gates
stepped down. Microsoft became a legend
of its time, but it still has to work
hard in order to keep up with changing
technologies.
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