Tons and tons of news coverage on Bill Gates’s announcement he has given up his “chief software architect” role now and will be stepping down to be a part time employee and chairman in July 2008. Gates would like to spend more time working on his charitable foundation the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The BBC has a nice Q&A on the changes here.
Bill Gates To Work Part Time at Microsoft in 2008
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