Bill Gates to step down as chairman of Microsoft today [economictimes.indiatimes.com] The world’s richest man, Bill Gates, is all set to step down as the chairman of Microsoft on Friday.
The God of geeks, an inspiration to many a wannabe millionaires and a shrewd businessman, Mr Gates would always be remembered for the huge contribution that Microsoft did for spreading the IT revolution in the world.
Over 90% of the world’s desktops work on Microsoft Windows and almost all of the world’s word processing documents, spreadsheets, are created on Microsoft software.