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Gates: No Return To Microsoft
- Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday, December 15, 2011 12:08 PM
Despite reports to the contrary, Bill Gates says he has no plans to pull a Steve Jobs, and return to the company he once founded. Speaking with The Sydney Morning Herald, Gates said he had made the transition to work full-time at his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation "and that will be what I do the rest of my life.” Explained Gates: "I'm part-time involved with Microsoft, including even being in touch this week to give some of my advice but that's not going to change -- the foundation requires all of my energy, and we feel we're having a great impact."
Fortune recently reported rumors that Gates was considering a comeback to Microsoft, which he left in 2006 to focus full-time on philanthropy. “A possible comeback was loosely compared to Jobs, who took the reins at Apple in the late '90s after a decade in the wilderness and saved the company,” SMH notes, adding that Gates’ successor, Steve Ballmer, “is widely considered to have missed the significance of what Jobs dubbed the ‘post-PC era’ and Microsoft is now an also-ran in smartphones, tablets and music players.”
