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Gates will remain chairman, coming in one day a week to work on projects with Craig Mundie and Ray Ozzie, who inherit his software strategy responsibilities. I dont ever see Bill stepping 100 percent away from Microsoft, said Scott Di Valerio, a former vice president who resigned in October. Hes part of the core of [...]

“This is taking data that’s very complex, gathered over many years from many telescopes, and making it accessible,” said Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, at a speech in Jakarta, Indonesia. The star-gazing software appears to be similar to Google Sky, which Google launched in August 2007. Microsoft could not immediately provide further details about Worldwide [...]