Bill Gates to say ' bye' to Microsoft

• The Microsoft co-founder and driving force in the company, whose boyish face and nerdy manner epitomizes the US software colossus,Bill Gates spends his last day at the office on Friday 27th June 2008.


• However Gates, 52, remains chairman of the Microsoft board of directors and the company's largest shareholder.


• After decades devoted to Microsoft, Gates turns his attention full time to the philanthropic Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation he established with his wife.


• Paul Allen, who teamed with Gates to start Microsoft in a garage in 1975, will be among those "roasting" his childhood friend at a gala dinner affair Friday night.