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and so does michael Jackson but people disrespect him eventhough he has done more for charity then anyone will ever do.

lol plz tell me ur not that nieve to actually believe the press. Michael Jackson doesnt have sex with underage kids and because he showed his baby to the world by holding him in the air doesnt mean his was going to kill him.

lol am i the only one to catch the whiff of racism in Ironic's post?

I must have missed the part where Bill Gates was black, had sex with underage kids, and almost killed his baby

Since when was being black as bad as having sex with underage kids and killing babies lmao.

I found this article posted at the link below... the article is shown below the link

http://www.rlslog.net/bill-gates-to-retire-from-microsoft-on-friday/

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates was set Friday for his last day of full-time work at Microsoft - the company he founded 33 years ago on a hunch that personal computers would become an integral part of everyday life. The world’s largest software company said that it was not planning any public events to observe the transition, though the change would be marked by internal events. Gates, 52, will continue to hold the title of non-executive chairman and work about one day a week at Microsoft. He intends to devote the rest of his time to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the wealthiest charity in the world, which is aimed at improving healthcare around the world and reducing extreme poverty. Founded with the vast fortune he made as Microsoft prospered, the foundation has an endowment of some 38.7 billion dollars with billions more expected to roll in as Gates transfers his massive personal wealth. Legendary investor Warren Buffet, currently the world’s richest man, has also pledged to transfer the vast majority of his wealth to the foundation.

Gates handed over his role as Microsoft chief executive to his long-time partner Steve Ballmer in 2000, when Gates became the company’s chief software architect. Under a carefully planned succession programme, Gate’s duties will be taken over by two top Microsoft executives. Ray Ozzie will be in charge of day-to-day management issues, while Craig Mundie will be in charge of long-term planning. The company, whose Windows operating system powers some 90 per cent of the world’s personal computers, has a market capitalization of about 260 billion dollars and employs more than 78,000 people in 103 countries. But even as its cash cow products of Windows and the Office productivity suite look set to continue their stellar earnings, Microsoft faces tough competition as Google’s online dominance threatens to cut into Microsoft’s core businesses.

Source: M&C

Didnt Microsoft try and buy Yahoo too like rival Google in its own field..
For something like $44 Billion dollars...

I might be wrong...

As long as my Windows dont crash, I dont give a *beep* if Bill Gates marries a stripper or gives all his money away to that money sink called Africa.

ubuntu!

I just keep my Windows Task Manager open all the time...

Ubuntu... sounds like a Zulu city from one of the Civilization games.

Bill Gates already announced his retirement some time ago.  maybe 1 year ago or a few months ago.  But its old news.  He said he will concentrate on philantrophic activities.  He has a foundation (William and Sharon Gates Foundation, not sure on the name).  It was reported that Warren Buffet, the second richest man known in the universe will donate billions on that foundation.  I think Buffet has not heirs or something like that. 

Microsoft wanted to get Yahoo.  It was called a possible hostile takeover by CNN.  Yahoo made a deal with Google that allows google to advertise on Yahoo.  Microsoft didnt like that so they let go of Yahoo.  It was a clever move on the part of Yahoo avoiding the takeover by giving the competition an edge over them.  i think Google got the better of that deal.

If Bill Gates is MS and MS is the company that forces the world to upgrade to a new, more pointless feature packed, resource hungry, pointless OS every few years, the same MS that has one of the worlds worse environmental policies, then to the OP I say yes, I hate Bill Gates and I will make fun of him for as long as I live.

Wow, he has a charity. What multi billionaire doesn't have a charity? It's well known that if you are rich, you need to be part of a charity to make up for the bad things you do in the business world, well 9 times out of 10 at least, maybe there is a genuinely nice ultra rich person somewhere...

lol am i the only one to catch the whiff of racism in roxbury's post?

gives all his money away to that money sink called Africa.

Since when was africa a money sink

ah wait .... nvm

practically the same as a succubus

Yeah, Africa, funny no? We sure did a great job there fellow Europeans.

It's not really something I classify as 'alive' the state they're living in.

At least they have perks to our ocupation. They get free college in a lot of places we've give them lots of land and reservations. What have the europeans given?

My favorite monopolist of all time!