After Changing the Face of Personal Computing & Revolutionizing the Desktop Mr.Bill Gates plans to Retire, and leave the Multi-Billion Dollar Company soon by next year. Below is the transcript of the Article by John Markoff at NYTimes with Mr.Gates, Craig Mundie (head of research and strategy,MS) and Ray Ozzie (software architect,MS)

Microsoft’s founder, Bill Gates, flanked by his designated successors: Craig Mundie, left, head of research and strategyMr. Gates, Microsoft’s 51-year-old chairman, shows no sign of fading away. One year into a planned two-year transition, there are few visible cues that Mr. Gates is ready to leave the world’s technology stage to devote his energies principally to the $33 billion foundation he established seven years ago with his wife. Indeed at the company’s annual financial meeting last week Mr. Gates spoke first, outlining a decade-long agenda, not a mere 12-month outlook. He described a world in which the widespread availability of broadband networks would reshape computing, giving rise to what he said would be “natural user interfaces” like pen, voice and touch, replacing many functions of keyboards and mice. Mr. Gates has stayed deeply engaged in the company’s technology strategy. He still frequently participates in high-level strategy planning sessions with Microsoft’s closest partners, like Intel, according to executives who have attended the meetings. During a wide-ranging interview last week exploring his diminished role at Microsoft, the company’s challenge and its competitors, Mr. Gates insisted that he really has begun stepping back.

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