print email comment close Bill Gates URL: http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/ Description: This official Microsoft website for Bill Gates features a biography, writings, and transcripts (and some webcasts) of his speeches back to 1996. Includes press materials and video on the June 2006 announcement of Gate's transition (effective July 2008) "out of a day-to-day role in the company to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation." Publisher: Microsoft Corporation Extra Keywords notablebusinesspeople Library of Congress Subject Headings: Businesspeople Gates, Bill, 1955- People LII Database Information: Record 5853 created by on 10/10/1999 Last modification on 06/16/2006 Published: 10/10/1999   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/5853