Microsoft said it received information in the latter half of 2019 that Gates "had sought to initiate an intimate relationship with a company employee in the year 2000," a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement. Throughout the investigation, Microsoft provided extensive support to the employee who raised the concern," the statement said. The Microsoft spokesperson declined to comment on whether the board had decided Gates should go. In a statement to the Wall Street Journal, a spokesperson for Gates said his decision to leave the board of Microsoft had nothing to do with his involvement with an employee. A spokesperson for the Gates Foundation told Reuters it stood by the statement to the paper.

Source: CBC News May 17, 2021 16:30 UTC