Interesting:

Gates to leave day-to-day role at Microsoft

Chairman to devote more time to charitable works.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Microsoft announced Thursday that chairman and co-founder Bill Gates will transition out of a day-to-day role at the company, effective July 2008, to spend more time working on his charitable foundation.
http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/15/tech...news/index.htm

I wonder what impact this will have...