For more than half a century, Microsoft and Bill Gates have been inseparable, first as co-founder and architect of one of the world\u2019s most powerful technology companies, and later as a philanthropist whose foundation was deeply funded by the very firm he created. <\/p>\n
That financial link has now fully ended. <\/p>\n
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust has sold its final 7.7 million shares of Microsoft Corporation in the first quarter of 2026, ending a gradual two-year exit that began with 28.5 million shares. The stake was valued at about $3.2 billion, according to filings reported by The Times of India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For more than half a century, Microsoft and Bill Gates have been inseparable, first as co-founder and architect of one of the world\u2019s most powerful technology companies, and later as a philanthropist whose foundation was deeply funded by the very firm he created. That financial link has now fully ended. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust has sold its final 7.7 million shares of Microsoft Corporation in the first quarter of 2026, ending a gradual two-year exit that began with 28.5 million shares. The stake was valued at about $3.2 billion, according to filings reported by The Times of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008660,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008635\/revisions\/1008660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}