Microsoft Seeks Path Beyond Gates’s Legacy – NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/technology/27soft.html?ei=5124&en=7a10937df3ccc913&ex=1372219200&adxnnl=1&partner=digg&exprod=digg&adxnnlx=1214559407-eHaIPmidoMRUIDsk4K6h%20A

Friday will be Bill Gates’s last day as a full-time worker at Microsoft, the software giant he founded with Paul Allen in 1975. He attended an event unveiling Windows 95 in August 1995.

As Bill Gates moves on, it will be up to successors to master the Internet’s challenges or see Microsoft’s stature erode.