(Washington) Co-founder and former Microsoft boss Bill Gates, whose final departure from the group in 2020 followed the revelation of an affair 20 years ago with an employee, had already been lectured in 2008 after emails deemed inappropriate to a female staff member.
According to information from Wall Street Journal, confirmed to AFP by a spokeswoman for Microsoft, executives of the group made aware of these emails had told Bill Gates that they were inappropriate and that it had to stop.
Then full-time employee and president of Microsoft, Bill Gates had flirted with the employee by email and invited her to meet him outside of work.
Mr Gates had admitted the facts and promised not to do it again, according to the Wall Street Journal. The board, which had been informed of these contacts by email, had not taken any action.
“Apart from confirming that the information from the Wall Street Journal are fair, Microsoft has nothing more to add, “said Monday a spokeswoman for the IT group.
Bill Gates stepped down in 2008 and remained on Microsoft’s board of directors until March 2020.
The former Microsoft boss, one of the richest men in the world, and his wife Melinda announced their divorce last May, after 27 years of marriage.