Charity

These numbers don't include the billions Bill Gates

has been giving away.



==== Short Takes ====

by Paul Thurrott

Microsoft and Employees in Massive Donation Push

Microsoft and its employees have donated a whopping $2.5 billion to charity since 1983, the
company announced today, $450 million of which has gone to the Puget Sound area near the
company's main corporate campus. In 2005, Microsoft employees donated $68.2 million to charity,
an amount that Microsoft matched (in addition to its donations to other charities). Say what
you will about Microsoft, but that's pretty impressive.