Microsoft founder Bill Gates announced today that he will not handle Microsoft's day-to-day operations and work only "part-time". Instead, he will concentrate more on his charitable organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which focuses on global health and education. In a press conference today, Gates said:

I've decided that two years from today, I will reorganize my personal priorities. I have one of the best jobs in the world. I believe with great wealth comes great responsibility - the responsibility to give back to society and make sure those resources are given back in the best possible way, to those in need. It's not a retirement, it's a reordering of my priorities.

A two-year lead gives Gates enough time to work with his successors and ensure the transfer is smooth. Brian Ashcraft

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