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Bill Gates is leaving Microsoft, the world’s largest software company that he co-founded in 1975, to take up a full-time assignment in philanthropy. He will focus mainly on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and its work in health, vaccines, education and more. But Bill Gates would remain Microsoft’s Chairman, advisor and its largest single shareholder. | | | | | | | | Gatesspeak One thing I like about the Microsoft culture -- is that we wake up every day thinking about companies like Wang or Digital Equipment, or Compaq, that were huge companies that did very well and they literally have disappeared. | | | | | | |