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.
Bill Gates listens during a press conference held by the United Nations World Food Programme, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Howard G. Buffett Foundation at the 63rd annual United Nations General Assembly meeting September 24, 2008 at UN headquarters in New York City to unveil a new initiative to help poor farmers across the developing world increase their incomes. The new initiative, Purchase for Progress, hopes to help small farmers access reliable markets in order to sell... Read Full Story
Can anyone gain enough personal power to change our world for the better? This is the second in our GRAD2B “Salute Series”— recognizing great educators and entrepreneurs from all periods of history, from all nations, and from all walks of life. These individuals— not necessarily professors or teachers themselves— are those who have raised the quality of life of humanity, through education. Some are immensely wealthy, some poor, some renowned, some obscure. They have one thing in common... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
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. He is... Read Full Story
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 T homas Jefferson , in disgust, threw Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe against the wall, marking the end the... Read Full Story
He was there at the birth of the personal computer. He has had his second coming. He has healed one very sick company. And along the way he has changed the way we think about music and movies, telephones and computers. Okay, so it's not exactly "The Greatest Story Ever Told," but it's still a script with surprising zigs, inspiring zags and plenty of satisfying pay-offs. To call what Apple co-founder Steven Paul Jobs hath wrought a religion, of course, is easy. There are the adoring masses... Read Full Story
You are a living lifeline to the families that come to you in desperation. The sessions can be explosive.
Spousal abuse. Child abuse. Job loss, loss of self-esteem. Addiction. Violence. You know the cycles, the syndromes, only too well.
In earning your degree, you studied them all. And every day you learn more. The more you do, the more you know, and the more you know, the more you can help.
When economies are ripped apart, families are torn apart. Family counselors like you have... Read Full Story
Well-attired and groomed the World's wealthiest man and Chairman of Microsoft addressed the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC with a message of hope for the world's poorest. Introducing his speech, Bill identified Latin America, the continent, as young and growing. It was a wobbly moment. Both painfully wrong and probably betraying a North American viewpoint about the state of affairs south of the Rio Grande. He outlined his speech structure as an examination of the role of... Read Full Story
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Very funny contemporary cartoon of the state of computing between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Watch references to Vista, iPhone, the PC vs. Mac commercials, Commadore 64 and more.
Hope this isn’t taken down soon. Hilarious! (PG: Mature language)
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