Improper messages allegedly sent by its founder Microsoft, Bill Gates, to a female employee, almost a decade before resigning from the company’s board of directors. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, published by the New York Post, in 2007, Bill Gates had sent “sly” messages to the employee while he was still married.
In these messages he allegedly asked the employee to meet outside of their working hours and outside the office and when two Microsoft executives, Brad Smith and Lisa Brummel, found out, they remarked to him and asked him to stop.
Bill Gates he allegedly admitted that sending the emails was a bad idea and agreed to stop. So the council decided not to take further action as Gates had no physical contact with the employee.
Gates’s spokeswoman Bridget Arnold said the allegations were “false, rumors that are being circulated by sources who do not have direct knowledge and in some cases are a conflict of interest”.
A spokesman for Microsoft, Frank Shaw, said the employee had never complained about the incident. “It was playful but not obviously sexual, definitely inappropriate,” he told e-mails.
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