Little-Known Facts About Well-Known Leaders - Bill Gates
Everyone knows the most recent headlines about our countrys greatest leaders. In this feature, wed like to shed some light on the lesser-known facts about these folks in hopes of giving you a little greater insight as to what makes them tick.
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23.6.2007 If You Were Bill Gates, What Would You Buy Next?
If Microsoft chairman Bill Gates gave you a blank check and asked you to spend it in ways that would improve Microsoft's bottom line, what would you do with it? We're not talking planes, trains and automobiles here; we're talking tech investments. We know Microsoft technical evangelist
Robert Scoble would go Web 2.0-crazy with his mad money. But what about you?
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4.2.2006 What's Next for Bill Gates? - Part 2
In Part 2 of Time's interview, the Microsoft chief talks about the battle against Google, Origami and other new products from the Microsoft machine
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12.3.2006 Bill Gates: How I work
Not much of a paper chase for Microsoft's chairman, who uses a range of digital tools to do business.
Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect, Microsoft, U.S.A.
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5.4.2006 Bill Gates' to-do list
NEW YORK--It's still a year before Bill Gates shifts from a full-time Microsoft worker to a part-timer. Which is good, because there's plenty he still wants to achieve.
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4.2.2007 Who will replace Bill Gates?
Since joining Microsoft I've heard Bills name in conversations with me so many times now that It's quite disturbing to be honest. In that, a lot of the time I get the "yeah well tell your buddy Bill..." or "..When you next See Gates..." piecemeal conversations.
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12.3.2007 Bill Gates wants to go to space
The world's richest man Bill Gates is considering a possible flight into space, a Russian cosmonaut said from International Space Station Wednesday, citing Gates' colleague, current space tourist Charles Simonyi.
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15.4.2007 Bill Gates Award
At the Company Meeting, it was announced that Dave Cutler won the new Bill Gates Award, which is meant to recognize those who have made the absolute highest contributions to Microsoft (the award will be given only in years in which a suitable candidate emerges, and Bill has promised to return to present it. It is different from the Gates Award for Global Health, which is given by his Foundation and is sometimes referred to incorrectly as the "Bill Gates Award").
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10.9.2007 The quotable Bill Gates
In the past several decades, Microsoft's departing leader has provided plenty of choice quotes for audiences to ponder.
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23.6.2008 Bill Gates Still the Richest Man
Microsoft chairman architect Bill Gates is still the wealthiest person in America with a total of $51 billion, according to Forbes' annual list. Four out the top five richest Americans represent the technology industry, with fellow Microsoft founder Paul Allen, Michael Dell and Larry Ellison trailing Warren Buffett.
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Bill Gates Turns 50
What to get for the guy who has everything, even a knighthood?
Bill Gates turns 50 today, and such a landmark age deserves a landmark party. Official details were scant with a likely understated acknowledgment that he'll be "spending time privately with friends." common -
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Bill Gates - Too much money to tax
Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the world's richest man, said today the tax office in the US has to store his financial data on a special computer because his fortune is so vast.
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1.2.2006 Bill Gates, still the richest person
Microsoft's chief visionary moving further away from day-to-day corporate work. For the first time did not offer a strategy outlook at last year's financial analyst meeting. Instead, prefers to dive into innovative projects, foster collaboration among Microsoft's many divisions.
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10.3.2006 Bill Gates Spills About What's Next for Microsoft
In a two-part interview, Gates talks about the future of digital photography, search technology and more
TIME: How do you think about innovation? What are your cues? Is there a way you look at the world and derive a vision of the future? People wonder how Bill Gates comes up with the next big idea.
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11.3.2006 Bill Gates Wishes he Wasn't so Rich
The corporate leader says he doesn't like the attention of being the world's richest man.
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6.5.2006 Bill Gates' new project: Farming
Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates announced a new direction Friday as he pledged $306 million in grants to develop farming in poor countries, leading the charge for corporate responsibility at a major meeting of business chiefs.
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26.1.2008 The secret of Bill Gates success
As Bill Gates prepares to end his full-time work at Microsoft, he tells the BBC in an interview that it wasn't just what Microsoft did, but what his rivals didn't do that let Microsoft get ahead.
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20.6.2008 Rant Collumn for Bill Gates
Jim Lynch from ExtremeTech wrote a rant collumn about Bill Gates leaving Microsoft, here are some parts.
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3.7.2008 Bill Gates puts Bedingfield in his Xbox
IN the video that accompanies her first international hit, Unwritten, the British singer-songwriter Natasha Bedingfield is trapped inside a book trying to escape from a musty library.
Unwritten's startling imagery and catchy tune so impressed Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, that he has appointed Bedingfield his first corporate "artist in residence".
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26.3.2006 WinHEC 2006: Bill Gates Keynote
The annual WinHEC conference is kicking off in Seattle this morning with a keynote address by Microsoft boss Bill Gates:
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23.5.2006 Bill Gates says U.S. education system needs work
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Monday that the U.S. higher education system is the envy of the world but primary and secondary schools are failing to adequately prepare students for college.
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14.11.2006 Bill Gates Takes a Jab at DRM
Microsoft recently held a get together for a small group of high-profile bloggers ahead of the Mix Conference.
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17.12.2006 Bill Gates 'anxious' about US tech leadership
A lack of technology skills is causing the US to fall behind in the global knowledge economy, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates warned in a testimony before the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labour and Pensions.
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8.3.2007 Bill Gates Talk on Computing from 1989
Bill Gates discusses the software and computer industry, and how Microsoft has contributed. Gates also discusses his views on the future of the computing industry.
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25.3.2007 Bill Gates Headed For Space, Says Cosmonaut
Rumor revealed during live interview on Russian TV, based on a report from a former Microsoft engineer aboard the International Space Station.
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12.4.2007 Bill Gates: The next great success will come from Asia
"The next great success will come from Asia", said Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said in Boao, south China's Hainan Province Saturday.
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22.4.2007 When Bill Gates met Steve Jobs
Here are some photos and cartoons of Bill Gates met Steve Jobs.
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29.5.2007 Bill Gates, Harvard dropout, gets degree
Bill Gates attended to a bit of unfinished business Thursday. Gates, who dropped out of Harvard and co-founded Microsoft Corp. (Charts, Fortune 500) to become the world's richest person, stopped off at his former stomping grounds to collect an honorary law degree.
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8.6.2007 Why we can count on Bill Gates to save the earth
Bill Gates is an improbable humanitarian. He built a reputation as a nightmare boss at Microsoft, a totalitarian who screeched at employees he thought were stupid. He bludgeoned competitors with his illegal monopoly.
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3.9.2007 The latest fraudulent Bill Gates interview
Though he might be upset that he's the subject of a recent fake interview, Bill Gates can at least take solace in the fact that he's among some elite company in that regard.
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14.9.2007Inside Bill Gates' real Facebook account
Ever wondered what Bill Gates' Facebook really looks like? This week, reports have surfaced that Bill Gates stopped using Facebook because too
many people wanted to add him as a friend. Gates told an audience in New Delhi he had tried out Facebook but ended up with "10,000 people wanting to
be my friends". According to Gates he had trouble figuring out who was a real friend and who was not, "It was just way too much trouble so I gave it
up," Gates told the business forum. Over the years that Facebook has been operating there have been many parody and fake screen shots of Bill's
Facebook pages but Neowin can reveal Gates' true Facebook page today.
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26.07.2009Bill Gates introduces Bill Gates
Bill Gates gave a big speech Thursday night about eradicating disease, saving the world, and other stuff like that. But for pure entertainment value
-- and impact -- he was completely upstaged by his dad. Here's how Bill Gates Sr. introduced his son at the Rotary Club of Seattle's centennial
dinner...
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06.03.2009Bye, Bill. A fond remembrance
On this final day of Bill Gates' salaried employ at the company he founded, we recall a period of history way, way back -- an era when Gates was one
giant among many, and just as likely to survive the shakeout as any other...
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28.06.2008Bill Gates unleashes mosquito swarm on TED crowd
Every year, TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Conference brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged
to give the talk of their lives. Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman, who retired last year to devote himself into the Bill & Melinda Foundation, was
invited to speak at TED Conference this year devoted to "Great Unveilings." Gates Foundation has been recently working on ending Malaria and has
spent millions fighting the disease. Malaria is a dreadful disease affecting only poor countries and it looks Bill Gates wanted everybody to have a
feel of it at the TED conference!
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05.02.2009Bill Gates on Project Natal and Windows
Project Natal was unveiled as a revolutionary new gesture-based controller for the Xbox 360 during this year's E3 games expo, but while you may be
looking forward to using it to control games in your living room it could also find its way into your office, according to Bill Gates. In an
interview with CNET News, the Microsoft chairman and former CEO Bill Gates revealed that the company is looking at ways of using the Project Natal
hardware with Windows PCs through the same "software libraries and applications." The ideas started in Microsoft Research, which is the "crown
jewel in terms of always feeding neat new things into Microsoft" in the eyes of Gates.
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16.07.2009Live running analysis from the Bill Gates keynote
It is the annual ritual event that officially marks the end of the holiday season: the Bill Gates keynote at CES...
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07.01.2008Ask Bill Gates a question...
A sad day is approaching - the last day that Bill Gates will come to the UK for a Microsoft event. To mark the occasion, we're giving you all the
opportunity to ask Bill Gates (aka Bill G, Gatesy, Big Bill, B to the G) a question which will be answered at the Server and Tools partner pre-launch
event happening on 30th January.
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If partners want to ask Bill Gates a question before the event, how
can they do this?
We would love to pass your questions onto Bill, so if you have a burning question about whats in store for Microsoft in
the future, his thoughts on the IT industry, future technologies or how many friends he has on Facebook (!) then email
askbill@microsoft.com and we will pick the best ones and ask him
on the day.
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15.01.2008Transcript: Bill Gates
Executive Memo
Microsoft chairman and chief
software architect Bill Gates
sent the following memo to
fellow executives on October
30, calling for the company to
make changes in response to
the coming "services
wave." Gates says
Microsoft must act quickly and
decisively to figure out the
best way to deliver
service-enabled experiences...
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10.11.2005Bill Gates expands photo empire
Bill Gates has acquired a 5.2 percent stake in Eastman Kodak, according to
a regulatory filing today. The
Microsoft chairman owns the shares through his Cascade Investment LLC investment arm and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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18.02.2009Did Bill Gates Just Say Windows Vista Sucks?
Gizmodo: We asked a simple question: what Microsoft product could have used a little more polish before release? The answer astounded us. We would
just like to thank Bill Gates for his honesty and his openness.
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10.01.2008Bill Gates: I Want My DTV
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates
joined fellow industry leaders
Friday including Dell, Intel
and Cisco in asking Congress
to speed up the transition to
digital television and open up
the radio spectrum currently
used by TV for wireless
broadband services...
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15.10.2005Bill Gates on Chrome OS and browsers
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has revealed that he is "surprised people are acting like there's something new" in Google's recently
announced Chrome operating system, during an interview with CNET News. Just yesterday Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer also seemed to dismiss Chrome OS,
although both Ballmer and Gates admitted that with Google saying so little about their latest project it is hard to know exactly what it will be and
therefore discuss it in detail. "In any case, you should make them be concrete about what they're doing," Gates said in regards to the lack of
information. "It is kind of a typical thing.
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16.07.2009How Bill Gates Uses Office and Three Monitors
Bill Gates drops a lengthy
blog post explaining how he gets things done, Microsoft style, using three monitors to watch an inbox, read or write documents,
and browse the web. Spoiler: He also digs SharePoint, LiveMeeting, and other MS apps...
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28.07.2009Little-Known Facts About Well-Known Leaders - Bill Gates
Everyone knows the most recent
headlines about our country's
greatest leaders. In this
feature, we'd like to shed
some light on the lesser-known
facts about these folks in
hopes of giving you a little
greater insight as to what
makes them tick.
Bill Gates
- William
Henry Gates was born on
October 28, 1955, in Seattle,
Washington, USA.
- His
father William was a corporate
lawyer, and his mother Mary
was a schoolteacher.
- By the age of 17,
Gates had sold his first
computer program, a
time-tabling system for his
high school, for $4,200.
- Gates scored 1590 on
his SAT standardized test. The
top score for the test is
1600.
- Gates told his
university teachers he would
be a millionaire by age 30. He
became a billionaire at age
31.
- While at Harvard,
Gates co-wrote Altair BASIC,
which became Microsoft's
(then called Micro-Soft) first
product.
- He met his
wife, Melinda French, in 1987
at a Microsoft press event in
Manhattan while she was a
worker for the company. They
would go on to get married on
New Years Day in 1994.
- In 2002, Bill Gates
was considered more idolized
than Chinese Communist leader
Mao Tse-tung in a poll of
teenagers in Hong Kong and
China. The survey was
conducted by the City
University of Hong Kong.
- In 2005, Gates was
honored with the title Knight
Commander of the Order of the
British Empire by Queen
Elizabeth II of England.
- As of the March 2007
issue of Forbes magazine, Bill
Gates has been listed as
Number 1 on "Forbes' Richest
People" list for 13 years in
a row. His current net worth
is about $56 billion.
- Gates has recently
announced that he will be
reducing his involvement at
Microsoft and will be devoting
more time to his charity
work.
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24.06.2007'Softies share their favorite Bill Gates stories
To remember Bill Gates's last day at Microsoft, we asked
Larry Osterman,
Bill Hill, Joan Hoshino, and
Soma Somasegar to share
their favorite Bill Gates stories.
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27.06.2008Gates Foundation Assets Plummet 20%
No surprise that Bill Gates, along with everyone else, is getting hammered by the recession. But
Dealbook breaks down the numbers: The
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is down 19%, and Bill's Cascade Investment is down another 18%.
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18.02.2009Microsoft at CES 2008, Bill Gates' Last Keynote
Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, and Robbie Bach, president of the Entertainment and Devices Division, will deliver the pre-show 2008 International
CES keynote address at 6:30 p.m. PST Sunday, January 6, in the Palazzo Ballroom at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. Admission to the
keynote address will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis to accredited members of the media and analysts with their official CES badges and
badge holders. The doors to the ballroom will open at 5 p.m. and the media waiting room will open at 3 p.m. This will be Bill Gates’ last
keynote as he is stepping down from his position at Microsoft to pursue philanthropic goals.
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06.01.2008What Bill Gates Worries About
Gizmodo: In our third interview segment, we asked Bill what's on his mind when he wakes up in the morning, and what he's still worried about when he
goes to bed at night. At first his answer was businesslike, about Microsoft's goals. But then it took a turn for the personal...
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09.01.2008Bill Gates sees processor clock speeds to top out at 10 GHz
Less than a year from his
previously announced departure
from the company he
co-founded, the Bill Gates
today outlined his vision and
opportunities for
Microsoft.
According to Gates, there
are currently six trends,
which will be determining
Microsoft and its product
strategy for the years to
come. In a rather unusual way,
he mentioned the dramatic
changes in the way the
hardware engines that will be
fueling new applications are
engineered.
The fact that performance
advances have shifted from a
pure increase of clock speed
to increased parallelism was
described by Gates as a
challenge. He believes that
parallel execution will be
the primary way silicon power
will be delivered down the
road and not so much the fact
that there is more clock speed
available. According to Gates,
microprocessors will get to 10
GHz, but not much further
() even 5 to 6 years out...
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26.07.2007Bill Gates Still the Richest
Man
Microsoft chairman architect
Bill Gates is still the
wealthiest person in America
with a total of $51 billion,
according to Forbes' annual
list. Four out the top five
richest Americans represent
the technology industry, with
fellow Microsoft founder Paul
Allen, Michael Dell and Larry
Ellison trailing Warren
Buffett...
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