While the Microsoft 40th anniversary celebrates four decades of one of the biggest companies in the entire world (and, in many ways, a pioneer in technology by all accounts), it has also made its computer-programming creator, Bill Gates, the richest man in the entire world - but the man behind Windows OS is certainly one to give back to the world.
In the early days of 2015, Food World News reported Bill Gates' latest project from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in which scientists created a processing plant that turns human feces into drinkable water, a project set to improve the lives of millions in impoverished nations - and his new Microsoft 40th anniversary letter follows the same philanthropic spirit.
As The Verge reports, it was in April 4, 1975, that Gates and entrepreneur buddy Paul Allen first started a small company named Microsoft, which would go on to become one of the landmarks in technology, though as of Microsoft's 40th anniversary Gates hasn't been the head of the company as he focuses on his philanthropic projects - he stepped down as CEO 15 years ago, in 2000.
Still, its four-decade anniversary sees Microsoft as the third most valuable company in the entire world, behind only Exxon Mobil and tech giant competitor for decades, Apple. The company's main products are running on about 90 percent of the world's computers.
However, that wouldn't stop him from sending a shout-out to employees of the company that made him a multibillionaire (Forbes lists his fortune at $78.1 billion, the largest in the world) during Microsoft's 40th anniversary.
CNET reports that, honoring Microsoft's 40th anniversary, Gates sent an e-mail to the company's employees (more than 125,000 people), from their headquarters outside Seattle to everywhere else in the world, and his main message to those working in the company was a simple one: make technology accessible.
"Tomorrow is a special day: Microsoft's 40th anniversary," reads the letter, according to Business Insider. "Technology is still out of reach for many people, because it is complex or expensive, or they simply do not have access. So I hope you will think about what you can do to make the power of technology accessible to everyone, to connect people to each other, and make personal computing available everywhere even as the very notion of what a PC delivers makes its way into all devices."
