Reports link Bill Gates' departure from Microsoft board in 2020 with probe into employee affair

The Microsoft board was conducting an investigation into Bill Gates' alleged "inappropriate" romantic relationship with a female Microsoft employee when he resigned in 2020, according to two investigative reports that appeared over the weekend. The employee was not named and a Gates Ventures spokesperson denied the two …

[Anonymous Coward]

Always the ones you least expect

Bill Gates joining John Major in that category

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Always the ones you least expect

Does discretion get you a better class of ass?

[Korev]

Re: Always the ones you least expect

> Does discretion get you a better class of ass?

Doesn’t that get you arrested in most countries?

[Korev]

Re: Always the ones you least expect

Always the ones you least expect

Bill Gates joining John Major in that category

I was going to eat a Curry for dinner, but that’s put me off

[tip pc]

Re: Always the ones you least expect

down vote for putting me off my curry.

that was really not needed

[tip pc]

Re: Always the ones you least expect

And swmbo cooked curried pork.

Serves me right.

[Tim99]

Re: Always the ones you least expect

Better than (salmonella) eggs?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Always the ones you least expect

Safest to stick with the peas ... I hear that they are good tonight.

[Uncle Slacky]

Re: Always the ones you least expect

And avoid eggs...

[Fruit and Nutcase]

Re: Always the ones you least expect

Were you going to have a "Vindaloo"?

Edwina Currie was known by fellow MPs and the press corps as "Vindaloo"

[wolfetone]

Re: Always the ones you least expect

I wonder if John Major egged Gates on with it?

[Anonymous Coward]

Embrace, extend, extinguish

^ Management summary: Bill Gates' marriage.

[Korev]

Re: Embrace, extend, extinguish

You’d have thought that IE6 would be sufficient grounds…

[Anonymous Coward]

"We have asked Microsoft for comment."

On what?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: "We have asked Microsoft for comment."

On why Teams is such a fustercluck?

[The Man Who Fell To Earth]

Amicably

"There was an affair almost 20 years ago which ended amicably."

Then why did the employee bring it up almost 2 decades later?

[Chris G]

Re: Amicably

That's what I was trying to figure out and why would that lead to Gates resigning from board's of directors?

[telecine]

Re: Amicably

Definitely a distraction.

The real truth will out ....

[RuffianXion]

Re: Amicably

Post-pandemic financial crisis?

[Alumoi]

Re: Amicably

She heard about the divorce, duh!

[tip pc]

Blue Screened?

Looks like Bills been Blue screening at work.

[paul10]

Bill Gates

A myth falls?

[Fruit and Nutcase]

Gulfsteams

Amongst his private jets are 2 Gulfstreams -

His jets registration numbers are N887WM and N194WM. The WM probably stands for William and Melinda.

https://www.superyachtfan.com/yacht-owners/bill-gates/private-jet/

...may be they'll soon be re-registered.

He should follow Bezos and hook up with someone who holds a pilot's licence(s)

[Fruit and Nutcase]

French Gates?

Surely, it is French Windows

or left-pondian French Doors, but never, French Gates

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/french-windows

[diodesign]

Re: French Gates?

For the avoidance of doubt, It's Bill (Henry) Gates and Melinda French Gates -- the French Gates refers to the wife as that's the name on her Twitters.

C.

[Fruit and Nutcase]

Re: French Gates?

...I did have second thoughts about my post after the editing window had elapsed.

Thanks for the clarification

[Claverhouse]

None Of My Business

And allegations about his dealings with the late Mr. Epstein are absurd.

Bill --- as always --- was solely interested in acquiring some of Mr. Epstein's money, and saw an easy mark.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: None Of My Business

Yeah, must be that.

[Anonymous Coward]

Embrace, extend, extinguish

It also seems our Bill had a relationship with the late Jeffrey Epstein, while not erotic in nature was equally suspect:

Joi Ito Already Admitted on the Record That Bill Gates Had Paid MIT Through Jeffrey Epstein

http://techrights.org/2020/05/27/joi-ito-email/

Massachusetts Institute of Tall Tales (MIT) Covers Up Bill Gates Bribery of MIT Through a High-Profile Pedophile, Citing No Evidence Other Than Representatives of Gates Himself

http://techrights.org/2020/01/10/gates-sponsored-mit/

[diodesign]

"Bill had a relationship with the late Jeffrey Epstein"

Yea, it's in our article, my guy.

C.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Embrace, extend, extinguish

Your choice of words is bad. Raping and harassing women, or men, is nothing erotic. Using ’erotic nature’ plays down what Esptein did, and what happened in MIT. I’m sure you didn’t mean it that way, but be careful with what you write.

[Cragganmore]

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned penetration testing yet... (OK I'll get my coat)

[Anonymous Coward]

I’m told the divorce settlement is the first transfer of liquid assets between Bill and Melinda for a good long while.

[fredesmite2]

Wow .. the dork was sticking his floppy

into another floppy device while married ?

[Kevin McMurtrie]

Billionaires

That's an amount of lifestyle impacting wealth I can't comprehend. I admit that I wouldn't know how to conduct my personal life in that situation. I'd try to do much better, but that's like trying to imagine living in another dimension.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Billionaires

I’ve got £20 in my wallet yet have still managed to remain a humble and beautiful being.

[Anonymous Coward]

It just goes to show that those who are held up as paradigms of capitalism

Are just people who will do anything for money, as per the first and oldest profession.

Given enough time being told that you are not bound by the laws and morality of those you employ then what exactly is left to stop you from doing what every other person with ultimate power does? become ultimately corrupt

In the US they create and foster their own monsters to keep their dream alive, a dream that is a nightmare for everyone else