Bill Gates Steps Aside at Microsoft (2/2)
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参考答案: In the last several years, Bill Gates has slowly given control of Microsoft to others. In two thousand, he gave the job of chief executive officer to Steve Ballmer, a friend of his since their years at Harvard University. Mister Ballmer has been with Microsoft since nineteen eighty.
Still, it is hard to overestimate the influence of Bill Gates on computing. He developed the business model that put the Windows operating system on about ninety percent of the world's one billion PCs. Microsoft now has almost ninety thousand employees.
At fifty-two years old, Bill Gates is currently the third richest man in the world. He is worth about fifty-eight billion dollars. He remains Microsoft's biggest shareholder.
Mister Gates will now spend most of his time working at his charity organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation is the world's largest charity with over thirty-seven billion dollars. It provides money for health, education and other projects, mostly in developing countries.
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