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According to Microsoft.com, Bill Gates is shown as the Chairman on the Microsoft Board of Directors.

Here's the link: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/bod/default.mspx

You may be thinking about the funny video Gates made making light of his last day as a full time employee of Microsoft Corporation, but he is certainly still a part of Microsoft.

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Bill Gates is logging off, he is leaving Microsoft, and is dedicating his time with his wife to do charity work.
Source - The News.

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In all fairness, Bill Gates did not leave Microsoft, he has simply shifted his participation in daily events. He is still a member of the Board, he still has controlling stock interest and he still maintains an office as an employee.

From The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/technology/27soft.html on June 27, 2008:

Bill Gates is retiring, sort of. He is still only 52, and he is going off to spend more time guiding the world?s richest philanthropy, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He will still be Microsoft?s chairman and largest shareholder, but Friday is his last day as a full-time worker at the software giant, marking the unofficial end of his career as a business leader.

Although Mr. Gates will spend one day a week at the company, it will be up to his successors, led by Steven A. Ballmer, the chief executive, to master the challenges of the Internet or watch Microsoft?s wealth and stature in the industry steadily erode.

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oz commented 4 months 4 weeks ago

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Mr Gates is stepping down as chairman of Mircosoft leaving the rest to remember how the company is and to operate without him. July 6, 2008