Bill Gates Steps Down

This article says that "Three decades after he started Microsoft with the dream of placing a personal computer in every home and business, Bill Gates said Thursday that he would leave his day-to-day role there in two years."

The article continues to say that gates will shift his energies to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. But he also said that he will remain as chairman and maintain his large holding in the company. And he still considers himself the largest shareholder in the company.

As Dan Gilmor observed, this is only a "sort of" stepping down.