Microsoft has made public that Bill Gates is giving up his position on the board of directors of the IT group. This means that one of the most iconic figures in the global IT industry is relinquishing his crown. According to his own statement, the co-founder of the gigantic company now wants to concentrate on the work of his own foundation.
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If you take it strictly speaking, Bill Gates has already relinquished his management position at Microsoft earlier. After all, the visionary handed over the management of the group to someone else in 2008. But despite all this, he was still on the board of the large IT group. Bill Gates even headed this board until 2014, but from then on his work on the board was more or less only of a representative nature. The departure of Bill Gates marks the end of a very special era.
A final departure?
It was certainly not an easy task to give up the position on the board. After all, Bill Gates has thus given up the very last official position...
