{"id":8022,"date":"2014-01-13T23:16:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T23:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/bill-gates-steps-aside\/"},"modified":"2014-01-13T23:16:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T23:16:01","slug":"bill-gates-steps-aside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/bill-gates-steps-aside\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Steps Aside"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-375\">\n<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F2011%2F01%2F13%2Fbill-gates-steps-aside%2Fbillgatessteveballmer%2F\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-376\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-376\" title=\"Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/8fb3f__billgatessteveballmer.jpeg\" width=\"269\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a>January 13, 2000<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft chairman Bill Gates <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fmoney.cnn.com%2F2000%2F01%2F13%2Ftechnology%2Fmicrosoft%2F\" target=\"_blank\">steps aside as chief executive<\/a> and promotes company president Steve Ballmer to the position. Gates would stay on as \u201cchief software architect\u201d until June of 2008 before finally giving up day-to-day responsibilities at Microsoft. Gates is still Microsoft\u2019s chairman of the board.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Previous post: <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F01%2F13%2Ffriday-the-13th-virus-gets-brits%2F\" rel=\"prev\">Friday the 13th Virus Gets Brits<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/8fb3f__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/13\/bill-gates-steps-aside\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 13, 2000 Microsoft chairman Bill Gates steps aside as chief executive and promotes company president Steve Ballmer to the position. Gates would stay on as \u201cchief software architect\u201d until June of 2008 before finally giving up day-to-day responsibilities at Microsoft. Gates is still Microsoft\u2019s chairman of the board. Previous post: Friday the 13th Virus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[3050,894,3048,3049],"class_list":["post-8022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-aside","tag-bill","tag-gates","tag-steps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}