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Bill Gates to step down from Microsoft


Bill Gates has announced that he will step down from the day-to-day running of the company to focus on his charity work.

Although he will remain chairman of Microsoft, he will take a step back from the running of the company to help find vaccines and fund projects in the developing world with his charity, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Gates programmed his first computer at the tender age of 13, and whilst studying at Harvard University he focused on improving his programming skills. However, he dropped out of college and moved to New Mexico where he and a friend set up Microsoft.

In 1980 he signed an agreement with IBM to build the operating system, MS-DOS. Microsoft went public in 1986, and within a year he became the world's youngest self made billionaire at just 31.

In an interview with the BBC, he said that Microsoft was able to flourish because their competitors were 'very poorly run':

They did not understand how to bring in people with business experience and people with engineering experience and put them together. They did not understand how to go around the world.

Although he is no longer the world's richest man, the vast wealth he has amassed was the main reason he is taking a step back from Microsoft and focus on charity work.



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Page last updated at 02:32 GMT, Friday, 27 June 2008 03:32 UK

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Inter Seal Lampard Deal - Report
Sports source "France Football" claims that Frank Lampard's move from Chelsea to Internazionale is signed, sealed and delivered. The England international midfielder has apparently reunited with coach José Mourinho at the San Siro in a deal worth 9million ...

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The French paper says Lampard has signed a four-year contract with the Nerazzurri after a total of seven seasons of play at Stamford Bridge.

Lampard has been linked with a move to Inter Milan for several weeks now, following the appointment of Mourinho as the new boss of the Italian champions.

Mourinho has been relishing the prospect of reuniting with the England international, having coached him during his time at the helm of Chelsea.

France Football suggests that Lampard will be rewarded with an annual salary of 7.3 million euros at the Giuseppe Meazza.

The London-based club are now on the lookout for a creative midfielder to replace Lampard, with reports suggesting Luiz Felipe Scolari to have found his man under the form of Deco, who is on the transfer list at Barcelona.