# Gates leaves day-to-day Microsoft work for full-time foundation work

Date: 2008

## The fact

On 27 June 2008 [Bill Gates](/people/bill-gates) left day-to-day Microsoft work to focus on the foundation, remaining chairman.

## Context

Neighbouring foundation 2000 is the vehicle. Neighbouring 2014 chairman exit is later. Ballmer remained CEO.

Foundation 2000 is neighbouring. Chairman exit 2014 is later.

Bill Gates was Microsoft CEO until January 2000, chairman until February 2014, then a technical adviser until 2020, and a Gates Foundation co-chair. That is not authorship of every Windows copy, every GAVI dose, or every IRS schedule. Melinda French Gates is a different person. Bill Clinton is PER-000772, a different person. A pledge is not a coverage rate. A docket is not a personality.

## Evidence and sources

Microsoft carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is immunization investment: a completed full-time philanthropy shift is an agenda-capacity instrument. A calendar change is not a coverage rate.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 27 June 2008 full-time foundation shift, independently reported.

Not established: that malaria ended that summer, or a unique later grant-effectiveness coefficient.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The foundation staff granted. Microsoft remained Ballmer’s day-to-day. Melinda co-chaired as a different person.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Gates leaves day-to-day Microsoft work for full-time foundation work, not a later speech about Gates leaves day-to-day Microsoft work for full-time foundation work.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Gates leaves day-to-day Microsoft work for full-time foundation work on 2008-06-27 is not a licence to treat every later Microsoft communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Gates leaves day-to-day Microsoft work for full-time foundation work into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He shifted his calendar. The foundation staff granted. Microsoft remained Ballmer’s day-to-day. Melinda co-chaired as a different person. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Bill Gates: https://factrail.ai/people/bill-gates

## Drivers

- Public and donor investment in immunization systems: https://factrail.ai/drivers/ph-immunization-investment

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-gates-idUSN2720080627
- https://news.microsoft.com/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/gates-fulltime-2008