The software giant had received a concern last year that Mr Gates had tried to have an “intimate” relationship with an employee in the second half of 2019, Dow Jones cited a Microsoft spokesman as saying. Mr Gates left before the investigation was completed, it reported. A spokesperson for Mr Gates couldn’t immediately be reached for comment. Mr Gates and his wife Melinda Gates announced earlier this month that they are ending their marriage. Mr Gates was Microsoft’s chief executive until 2000, and since then has gradually scaled back his involvement in the company he started with Paul Allen in 1975.

Source: The Irish Times May 16, 2021 23:26 UTC