2008: Bill Gates will leave Microsoft

By mid-2008, Microsoft Computer Group owner Bill Gates would give up his job altogether at Microsoft to devote his full attention to the Bill and Melinda Gates Charity.

After billionaire Waren E. Buffett announced in June 2006 that he supported his entire fortune ($ 31 billion) for a charity founded by the Gates and his wife for the purpose of treating properties. Critically ill and improving the education status in the Americas, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has become the world's largest charity.

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The boss of Microsoft computer group - Bill Gates.

Gates said: ' As a source of funding for research, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has made an important contribution in finding a cure for the 20 most dangerous diseases '.

While Microsoft is racing with Apple giants, Google in new areas, the time Gates is at the company gets shorter.

Long-time partner of Bill Gates, also a Harvard classmate, Steven A. Ballmer, who is currently a strategic guide for Microsoft, said: ' Gates will still be the most influential person at the company even if Gates not always here. For everyone here, Gates is still the boss, still the largest shareholder of Microsoft Corporation '.

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