{"id":5713,"date":"2008-06-25T12:40:29","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T11:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/bill-gates-retirement-software-package\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:29:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:29:52","slug":"bill-gates-retirement-software-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/bill-gates-retirement-software-package\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates&#8217; retirement software package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/06\/gates1.jpg\" alt=\"Keeping Bill off the streets\" align=\"right\" \/>As the World&#8217;s most successful businessman prepares to stand down, I got to wondering what Bill Gate&#8217;s will get up to after he leaves Microsoft. Will he run for president? Move to Space? Throw all his money in the sea? I&#8217;m not sure. The one thing I do know is that the planet&#8217;s biggest geek will not be throwing away his PC. So I decided to put together a collection of potentially useful software as a leaving present for my favorite tycoon.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/diogames.com\/OrbitalTrader.html\">Orbital Trader<\/a>&#8211; He&#8217;s already conquered the business world here on Earth, so perhaps Bill is now thinking of branching out it other areas of the Galaxy. This space trading game will give him a chance to see if his corporate nouse extends to interplanetary economics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xp-gloss-wallpaper-pack.en.softonic.com\/\">XP Gloss Wallpaper<\/a> &#8211; Here&#8217;s a cool download to help Bill celebrate one of his greatest hits. Once he&#8217;s installed this funky version of the XP logo as his desktop background he&#8217;ll hopefully forget he ever released a follow-up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/money\">Microsoft Money Deluxe<\/a> &#8211; Not sure if you&#8217;ve heard of this one Bill, but it might be a useful app for you to calculate your pension payments. It contains a range of analysis tools that will help you work out if you can still afford that week in Florida this summer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.needforspeed.com\">Need for Speed Carbon<\/a> &#8211; In his early years at Microsoft in 1997, Gates was arrested for speeding in his Porsche (as you can see from his mugshot it didn&#8217;t seem to bother him too much). This classic racing game might help him contain his passion for burning rubber to his PC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/news\/index.html\">OpenOffice<\/a> &#8211; Now that his days as a corporation bigwig are numbered, perhaps Bill will turn his back on commercialism and embrace the open source community by using OpenOffice rather than MS Office to publish his memoirs. Somehow I doubt it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the World&#8217;s most successful businessman prepares to stand down, I got to wondering what Bill Gate&#8217;s will get up to after he leaves Microsoft. Will he run for president? Move to Space? Throw all his money in the sea? I&#8217;m not sure. 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