Gates in 2008.Īpple on Monday unveiled in an hourlong virtual event new MacBook computers powered by Apple-made processors and an updated model of its popular AirPods. Gates’s emails to that female employee triggered executives’ warnings to Mr. Gates wrote in an email, according to a person who read it to The Times. “If this makes you uncomfortable, pretend it never happened,” Mr. Gates left the meeting and immediately emailed the woman to ask her out to dinner, The Times reported. The article described an overture he made to a female Microsoft employee after attending a presentation by her while he was the company’s chairman. Gates had developed a reputation for questionable conduct in work-related settings. Gates and his wife, Melinda French Gates, announced this year that they were ending their 27-year marriage. Gates had, years earlier, had a sexual relationship with a subordinate at Microsoft. Gates’s long-running relationship with the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Microsoft’s board began looking into a report that Mr. Gates, told The Journal, “These claims are false, recycled rumors from sources who have no direct knowledge, and in some cases have significant conflicts of interest.” She had no additional comment when reached by The New York Times. Gates were reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal.īridgitt Arnold, a spokeswoman for Mr. Gates left the company shortly thereafter in a long-planned departure, though he remained a member of its board until last year. Gates told the board members that he agreed that what he had done was inappropriate, and the board took no further action. Gates that his behavior was inappropriate and notified a small group of board members about the incident, Mr. “While flirtatious, they were not overtly sexual, but were deemed to be inappropriate.”Īfter they discovered the messages, executives warned Mr. “These emails proposed meeting outside of work and off campus,” Mr.
Senior Microsoft executives learned of the emails in 2008, according to Frank Shaw, a Microsoft spokesman. Gates, who at the time was a full-time employee and the company’s chairman, asked an employee out on a date. The warning involved messages in which Mr. Microsoft executives warned Bill Gates in 2008 about inappropriate emails he had sent to a female employee, a Microsoft spokesman said on Monday.
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