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Bill Gates
Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates, co-founder of the software giant, plans to give up his day-to-day duties at Microsoft in 2008.
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We watched it. And we didn't get it. We're talking about the new Microsoft television ad starring funnyman Jerry Seinfeld and Microsoft founder Bill Gates. In the commercial, Jerry Seinfeld is in a mall when he sees Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates at a "Shoe Circus" store. The comedian then helps Gates pick out a new pair of shoes while they joke about showering with clothes on, Gates being a size 10, and platinum credit cards for a fictional shoe store. The ad has drawn mostly negative...
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Bill Gates has formally stepped down from the Microsoft helm, to devote the remainder of his life to saving the world, and playing cribbage with Warren Buffet.
I suppose it really doesn't matter much anymore. The eight thousand ton Redmond Gorilla can still throw it's flabby weight around, but the true evil of the cyberworld now resides in Mountain View.
But, just like the day Thomas Jefferson, in disgust, threw Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe against the wall, marking the end the...
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If you've seen the Jerry Seinfeld-Bill Gates Microsoft ads, and found yourself totally confused, don't worry, you're not the only one. The ads have only been running for two weeks, and already Microsoft has confirmed they will pull the plug. Maybe it's because they were confusing, or because in the end they really weren't funny, either way, they received serious criticism and really didn't make any sense. Maybe it's something about Gates and Seinfeld as traveling companions that just makes...
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Bill Gates, the nerdy and controversial co-founder of virus-y
software monolith Microsoft is handing over the reigns of his monster
corporation. His last official workday will be June 27th. "Three people
will essentially fill the void left behind when Bill Gates retires from
the company he and friend Paul Allen co-founded in 1975. Since Gate's
began his transition from leading Microsoft to heading his
personally-bankrolled charity, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
his job as chief...
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BILL GATES Aged 48 Chief Software Architect at Microsoft Wealth estimated at $40bn 1. Bill Gates had sold his first programme by the age of 17. His school paid him $4,200 for a programme on time-tabling. 2. He dropped out of Harvard to concentrate on his business. 3. Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft in 1975 and served as Chief Executive Officer until 2000. 4. The secret of Microsoft's wealth was to license its software so that earnings rose in proportion to the number of users. 5...
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He's rich ... and responsible.
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Bill Gates orakelt wieder - diesmal aber nicht über die Zukunft des Computers. Stattdessen machte er jetzt einige Vorhersagen, was die drohende Finanzkrise angeht. Für die US-Wirtschaft sagte er eine durchaus... (weiter lesen)
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From winfuture.de
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EAST LANSING, Mich. -- One of the richest men in the world has given a hand to Michigan State University.The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is giving MSU a $4 million grant to study farming in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Microsoft Corp . co-founder Bill Gates said the U.S. economy is headed for a ``fairly significant recession,'' and that the unemployment rate may peak at more than 9 percent.
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Redmon Washington-Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announced today the release of his new Operating System,Microsoft Vistuh!!for the computer illiterate.Comprising only three buttons,on,off and porn this new system will cut out all the time consuming st...
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From thespoof.com
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates has said in a television interview that the countrys financial crisis will not mean the end of capitalism and will not lead to a depression.
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From sify.com
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If you think you had a rough September, consider Bill Gates. Critics may have savaged his cryptic Vista commercials with Jerry Seinfeld, but it was in his stock holdings that Mr. Gates took a real beating. Forbes magazine, whose Forbes 400 listed Mr. Gates as the richest American in late August...
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From redherring.com
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Der US-Investmentbanker Warren Buffett hat Microsoft-Gründer Bill Gates die Position als reichster Amerikaner abgenommen. Buffett soll nun die vom Wirtschaftsmagazin Forbes erstellte Liste der 400... (weiter lesen)
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From winfuture.de
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That's a really clever ad. DisposableInterloper
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From gizmodo.com
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When Warren Buffett gave $31 billion to Bill Gates' Foundation, I assumed it would advance the New World Order. But when a reader showed me ...
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