Guess who is retiring??

Today, June 27th, 2008, marks the last official day that Bill Gates will be working at his company Microsoft. Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft is currently the 3rd richest person in the World. Although he is not going to keep his day to day duties he will remain Chairman of Microsoft. His reason for moving away are to spend more time with his charitable foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
I have always been intrigued by what Bill Gates has accomplished. Wouldn't it be nice to be the head of this company and also have the bank roll that he does.

Some interesting facts about Bill Gates and Microsoft

• Bill Gates Net Worth- $58 Billion
• Microsoft makes a lot of money

• His home is worth an estimated $136,617,000, the property taxes alone exceed 1 million per year Click Here for an interactive tour
• Microsoft's office building is over 8 million square feet and has over 30,000 employees

• Microsoft are the owners of over 10 million square feet of real estate
  
• In 2004 over 90% of computers were running Windows
• Bill Gates was named one of the top 100 people that most influenced the 20th Century

I think that it is amazing that Bill Gates brought a product to consumers that has almost become a necessity. So all you or I need to do is create a great product that everyone in the world needs and we can have a monster house, company and bank account.