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For other people named Bill Gates, see Bill Gates (disambiguation).
Bill Gates
Gates in 2013
Born
William Henry Gates III
October 28, 1955 (age 57)
Seattle, WA,...
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Gates was born in Seattle, Washington, to William H. Gates, Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates. His ancestry includes English, German, and Scots-Irish.[14][15] His father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother served on the board of directors for First...
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MITS Altair 8800 Computer with 8-inch (200 mm) floppy disk system
After reading the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics that demonstrated the Altair 8800, Gates contacted Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry...
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IBM approached Microsoft in July 1980 regarding its upcoming personal computer, the IBM PC.[42] The computer company first proposed that Microsoft write the BASIC interpreter. When IBM's representatives mentioned that they needed an operating system, Gates referred them...
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Microsoft launched its first retail version of Microsoft Windows on November 20, 1985, and in August, the company struck a deal with IBM to develop a separate operating system called OS/2. Although the two companies successfully developed the first version of the new...
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Bill Gates in January 2008
From Microsoft's founding in 1975 until 2006, Gates had primary responsibility for the company's product strategy. He aggressively broadened the company's range of products, and wherever Microsoft achieved a dominant position he...
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From Microsoft's founding in 1975 until 2006, Gates had primary responsibility for the company's product strategy. He aggressively broadened the company's range of products, and wherever Microsoft achieved a dominant position he vigorously defended it. He gained a reputation for being...
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Further information: United States Microsoft antitrust case and European Union Microsoft competition case
Gates giving his deposition at Microsoft on August 27, 1998
Many decisions that led to antitrust litigation over Microsoft's business...
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Gates mugshot of his 1977 arrest in New Mexico
Gates appeared in a series of ads to promote Microsoft in 2008. The first commercial, co-starring Jerry Seinfeld, is a 90-second talk between strangers as Seinfeld walks up on a discount shoe store...
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Since leaving day-to-day operations at Microsoft (where he remains Chairman[63]), Gates continues his philanthropy and, among other projects, purchased the video rights to the Messenger Lecturesseries called The Character of Physical Law, given at Cornell...
