Milestone: Bill Gates no longer Microsoft’s largest shareholder, as shares dip below Ballmer’s stake

For the first time in Microsoft’s history, Bill Gates is no longer the company’s largest individual shareholder, as of this afternoon.

A stock sale by Gates made public a few minutes ago reduced his ownership to 330.1 million shares, compared to more than 333 million owned by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer as of the company’s last proxy filing.
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