Through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, he has dedicated his time in recent years to eradicating poverty, preventable diseases, world hunger, and more. Gates was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. Key emails may be forwarded to Bill Gates personally. Of note: Microsoft says the report will summarize the results of any investigations of potential sexual harassment by board members and senior executives — including the board's look into allegations made against co-founder Bill Gates.
Get market news worthy of your time with Axios Markets. Subscribe for free. The inquiry is expected to review how the company investigated Gates, but it's not clear that any fresh details from that effort will be made public. Shareholders passed an advisory resolution last year calling for such a review.
Gates stepped down from the Microsoft board in March In , a board committee began investigating allegations that Gates had "sought to initiate an intimate relationship with a company employee in the year How it works: Microsoft is bringing in law firm Arent Fox to conduct an outside review, noting that the firm has not done work for Microsoft on employment issues in the past. Among the things the firm will assess are "the steps that have been taken to hold employees, including executives, accountable for sexual harassment or gender discrimination.
Arent Fox will first deliver its findings and recommendations privately to the company, with management preparing a plan to act on the recommendations. Microsoft says the report will include data on the number of sexual harassment cases investigated and their resolution.
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Ina Fried , author of Login. The inquiry is expected to review how the company investigated Gates, but it's not clear that any fresh details from that effort will be made public. The foundation aims at improving healthcare, expanding education opportunities and reducing extreme poverty. It is perhaps very difficult to imagine our lives and work without the personal computer in the past few decades. It was a time when the idea of personal home computer was mocked by many.
The tech revolution required better machines, better technologies, better software but most importantly making things simpler. The PC would do exactly that and make the computer personal with user friendly tools or software like Windows, Office, Paint and many others.
Thus computing, which was remote and foreign to most people, would become a personal and easy experience. Establishing Microsoft in the early days of microcomputers, its founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen dreamt of putting a PC on every desk and every home. A dream that would propel a small company of just 30 people to a multi-billion global force that employs , individuals and affect s millions of lives as the leading software company in the world; and Bill Gates has been a pioneer of this change.
Microsoft platform has become a target of a massive community of developers which have supplied windows with 16 million programs.
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