His successors are Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie

Jun 16, 2006 08:43 GMT  ·  By

Bill Gates' philanthropic work makes collateral "damages". Two of his staff will receive in two years time all of Bill's responsibilities in the Redmond Company as the co-fonder of Microsoft has chosen to dedicate his work to the philanthropy, joining his wife at the head of the foundation barring their names. After June 2008, both Ozzie and Mundie will answer directly to Microsoft's Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer.

Ray Ozzie, age 50, joined Microsoft in 2005 as Chief Technical Officer when the giant acquired his company Groove Networks. Before this, he founded Groove Networks in October 1997 and even before this he founded Iris Associates Inc. where he led the early stages of Lotus Notes development. Prior to that he worked on the first electronic spreadsheet VisiCalc in the 1980's and after this at Lotus Development Corp. on the development of Lotus Symphony. Ozzie was named Person of the Year in 1995 by PC Magazine, and was inducted into the Computer Museum Industry Hall of Fame as well as the InfoWorld Hall of Fame. He is now Chief Software Architect, title formerly owned by Bill Gates.

Craig Mundie, age 56, is working with Microsoft since 1992 when he created and lead Consumer Platforms Division, responsible for developing non-PC platform and service offerings such as the Windows CE operating system, software for the handheld, Pocket and Auto PCs, and early telephony products. Mundie is also the initiator of Microsoft's digital TV efforts and manages WebTV Networks Inc., a Redmond Company subsidiary. Before Microsoft, he worked at Data General Corp. where he wrote the first commercial disk operating system and was a co-founder and CEO of Alliant Computer Systems Corp., a company that developed massively parallel supercomputers. In August 2000, U.S. President Bill Clinton named Mundie in the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.

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