Founder Bill Gates no longer works for Microsoft, nor is he on the board, so whether he had any part in the decision to lay off 10,000 people is questionable. As for the stock, he owns 1.4% of Microsoft stock which comes to about $75 billion.Bill Gates is a college drop-out from Harvard in his junior year, but he later gave them $15 million for their computer engineering and software departments. He is devoting his time to running his foundation with his former wife with whom he is still close. They specialize in funding health organizations. (One shameful episode in his life is that he was friends with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, which bothered his wife.)When IBM first created the Personal Computer they contracted Bill Gates to provide the operating system software which he bought from a friend Gary Kildall for $50,000. Kildall later founded  his own company and later sold it for $120 million in 1991.Only a few years after launching the Personal Computer IBM stopped manufacturing it, but Gates had the right to use the software on other computers. IBM decided to concentrate on big "mainframe" computers, as they still do today.I owe a debt of gratitude to Bill Gates because after graduating with a useless degree in philosophy, I was hired by IBM to write software using laptops run by Microsoft Windows. (This comment is created on a laptop running Gates' Microsoft Windows software.)

Founder Bill Gates no longer works for Microsoft, nor is he on the board, so whether he had any part in the decision to lay off 10,000 people is questionable. As for the stock, he owns 1.4% of Microsoft stock which comes to about $75 billion.Bill Gates is a college drop-out from Harvard in his junior year, but he later gave them $15 million for their computer engineering and software departments. He is devoting his time to running his foundation with his former wife with whom he is still close. They specialize in funding health organizations. (One shameful episode in his life is that he was friends with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, which bothered his wife.)When IBM first created the Personal Computer they contracted Bill Gates to provide the operating system software which he bought from a friend Gary Kildall for $50,000. Kildall later founded  his own company and later sold it for $120 million in 1991.Only a few years after launching the Personal Computer IBM stopped manufacturing it, but Gates had the right to use the software on other computers. IBM decided to concentrate on big "mainframe" computers, as they still do today.I owe a debt of gratitude to Bill Gates because after graduating with a useless degree in philosophy, I was hired by IBM to write software using laptops run by Microsoft Windows. (This comment is created on a laptop running Gates' Microsoft Windows software.)

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