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Three unnamed major shareholders of Microsoft s overall share of around five per cent for Reuters reported that lobbied for the displacement of Bill Gates from Microsoft chairman role. Here Gates holds since 2008, ie since he finished his daily involvement in the company he founded. His departing from Microsoft, moreover, Gates began back in 2000 when ceded the post of head Steve Ballmer .
And the new position of chief are the three major concerns of investors. They believe that Bill Gates, who has with his choice of aid would prevent Microsoft's radical transformation ( more on the restructuring of Microsoft ). According to them, in addition Gates has too much influence on the running of Microsoft in comparison to how "little" Shares.
Microsoft representative declined to comment on speculation. There is no real evidence to suggest that the Board of Directors of Microsoft, which Gates chair, this design really considered. The three investors together hold more than five percent of the shares of Microsoft, a little more than Gates himself.
Opinions polled experts on the situation varies . While some consider Gates' resignation as representative of the "old guard" for opening the way to a new direction of the company, others believe that he could still play an important role. "I think the company recently lacked the technological visionary," said Kim Forrest, an analyst at Fort Pitt Capital Group. "Gates sat down such a role."
Bill Gates and Microsoft
When Bill Gates 38 years ago founded the company Micro-Soft, he was twenty years old and the creation of the programming language BASIC spent his days and nights. Even later, when he had dozens of employees, excluding trade negotiations are still checking in "to each line of code" and often intervened in the source code and rewrote it in his own image.
In 2000, Microsoft was the biggest software company in the world, Bill Gates handed the reins to long-time colleague Steve Ballmer. Until 2008, Gates took part in the running of the company, but more and more attention devoted to his philanthropic projects.
Since 2008 Bill Gates "only" chairman of Microsoft. It is also still remains the largest individual shareholder of Microsoft.
When the IPO in 1986, Bill Gates owned 49 percent of all shares of Microsoft. Now, Gates is only 4.5 percent of shares worth about $ 12.4 billion. Gates' fortune Forbes magazine estimated at more than $ 72 billion.
Gates now sells about 80 million Microsoft shares every year. This preset plan, if it continues at this rate, balanced by Bill Gates of Microsoft's ownership structure in 2018.
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p>One source, who asked not to be published, Reuters reported that some investors would prefer to have Bill Gates as Microsoft's chief than as chairman of the board. Something like this, however, is highly unlikely and probably refers rather to respect for Gates as a pioneer of the PC market.
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