Gates: Software tycoon to ambassador?
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Is Bill Gates preparing to switch careers, from software architect to ambassador? It began to look that way during the Microsoft chairman and chief software architect's trip to Paris in mid-November, where his schedule bore more resemblance to that of a visiting diplomat than of a software tycoon.
Gates met the French head of state, President Jacques Chirac, with whom he discussed the digital divide, the work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and other development issues, according to presidential aides.