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| name = Bill Gates

| caption = Cover of their mixtape album, Wolfpack Muzik Vol. 2

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| captionorigin = Bill Gates in = [[Copenhagen]]Berkeley, [[2004California]]

| country = [[United States]]

| birth_date = [[October 28]], [[1955]]

| birth_placemusic_genre = [[Seattle,Hip Washington|Seattlehop]], [[WashingtonHyphy]]

| record_label = [[Jive Records]]

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| current_members = Young L, Lil Uno, Lil B, Young Stunna

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| occupation = [[Chairman]] and [[Software architecture|Chief Software Architect]], Microsoft Corporation

| salary = [[United States dollar|US$]]1 million<!--this is the correct style for money--><ref>Year 2005 compensation: salary $600,000, bonus $400,000. From Microsoft's [http://www.microsoft.com/msft/SEC/FY05/proxy2005.mspx Proxy Statement]</ref>

| networth = [[Image:Green up.png]] $50.0 billion USD (2005)<ref name=networth>Net worth: from [http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/BH69.html Forbes: The World's Billionaires], dated March 9, 2006.</ref>

| spouse = [[Melinda Gates]]

| website = [http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/ microsoft.com/billgates]

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The Pack, formerly known as the Wolfpack, is a rap group from [[Berkeley, California]]. The group consists of Lil Uno, Lil B, Young L, and Young $tunna. The Pack was discovered by the veteran rapper [[Too $hort]] in 2005 while listening to one of their songs in a car as he was being driven to a show. He quickly went on a Bay wide hunt to find the group and sign them to his Up All Nite/ Zomba/ Jive record label.

The Pack's hit song "Vans" is number 23 on the top 30 hip hop charts, played on 65 hip hop stations nationwide and on 35 pop stations nationwide. The song featured a chorus of "Got my Vans on, but they look like sneakers; Wearing coke white but my Vans are cleaner." which many thought was synthesized, but was in fact the unedited voice of a real high school student. Their video "Vans" has been aired on BET but MTV refused to show the video for advertisement reasons. However, [[MTV]] airs an edited version of the video, in which the word "Vans" is censored in throughout the song. MTV's decision created controversy, with many accusing the network of a double standard.[http://www.eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2006-09-06/music/close2thaedge.html]<blockquote>

'''William Henry''' "'''Bill'''" '''Gates III''', [[Order of the British Empire|KBE]] (born [[October 28]], [[1955]]) is the co-founder, [[chairman]], and [[software architecture|chief software architect]] of [[Microsoft|Microsoft Corporation]], the world's largest [[computer software|software]] company. He is also the founder of [[Corbis]], a digital image archiving company. According to ''[[Forbes]]'' magazine, Gates is the richest person in the world, with a [[net worth]] of about US $50 [[billion]], [[2006|as of March, 2006]]<ref name=networth/>.

Several commentators on [Clyde] Smith's site[http://www.prohiphop.com/] pointed to other rap songs with overtly commercial messages bordering on product placement, such as Run-DMC's "My Adidas," Nelly's "[[Air Force Ones]]," and Busta Rhymes, P. Diddy, and Pharrell's "Pass the Courvoisier." Many questioned MTV's censorship policy, noting that "[[My Adidas]]" and "Pass the Courvoisier" aired on the channel, while BET aired "[[Air Force Ones]]."

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A remix was made to the "Vans" song featuring Mistah F.A.B. and Too $hort. Their debut EP, entitled [[Skateboards 2 Scrapers]], released on [[December 19]], [[2006]].[http://www.myspace.com/wolfpackmusik] Their single [[Vans]] received the number 5 spot on [[Rolling Stone]] Top 100 songs of the year for 2006. Their second single ''I'm Shinin''' also can be seen on [[Yahoo]] Music.

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the [[personal computer]] revolution. He has become an icon of late-20th century [[capitalism]]. He is widely respected for his intelligence, foresight, and ambition, and widely resented based on accusations that he has come by his success unfairly or illegally. Some of these accusations have been upheld by government authorities, as in ''[[United States v. Microsoft]]''.

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Since amassing his fortune, Gates has pursued a number of [[philanthropy|philanthropic endeavors]], donating large amounts of money (about 51% of his total fortune) to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]], founded in 2000. He, his wife [[Melinda Gates|Melinda]] and [[U2]]'s lead singer [[Bono]] were collectively named by ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' as the 2005 [[Person of the Year|Persons of the Year]]. That same year he was given the honor of [[Order of the British Empire|Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] by [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]].

==Early lifeDiscography==

===Albums===

[[Image:Bill gates-mugshot.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Bill Gates' [[mug shot]] from 1977 when he was jailed for speeding.]]

*'''[[Skateboards 2 Scrapers]]''' (2006)

Bill Gates was born in [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]], [[Washington]] to [[William H. Gates, Sr.]] and teacher Mary Maxwell Gates. His family was wealthy; his father was a prominent lawyer and his maternal grandfather, J. W. Maxwell, was a [[national bank]] vice president.

Singles:

**2006: "[[Vans]]" <small>(Produced by Young L)</small>

**2006: "I'm Shinin'"

**2006: "Ride My Bike"

*'''Gangsters & Strippers''' (2006)

According to a widely repeated story, Maxwell set up a million (or multi-million) dollar trust fund for Gates the year he was born. <ref>[http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~an497637/project1.doc Gates was Gold before Microsoft]</ref>

**2006: "Booty Bounce Bopper" <small>(Produced by Young L)</small>

Gates commented on the story in a 1994 interview with ''[[Playboy]]'':

:PLAYBOY: Did you have a million-dollar trust fund while you were at Harvard?

:GATES: .&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. My parents are very successful, and I went to the nicest private school in the Seattle area. I was lucky. But I never had any trust funds of any kind, though my dad did pay my tuition at Harvard, which was quite expensive.

== External links ==

A 1993 biography by Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews calls the trust fund story one of the "fictions" surrounding Gates' fortune. <ref>''Gates How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry and Made Himself The Richest Man in America '', 534 pages, ISBN 0385420757 (1993)</ref>

*[http://www.myspace.com/wolfpackmusik Official MySpace page.]

*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhGO5f8gdWQ Original "Vans" music video on [[YouTube.com]]]

*[http://www.urbnmix.net/index.php/music-video-code/pack_the_im_shinin/ "Im Shinin" Music Video]

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Exceptionally intelligent, Gates excelled in elementary school, particularly in [[mathematics]] and the [[sciences]]. Bill Gates went to Lakeside, Seattle's most exclusive preparatory school where tuition in 1967 was $5,000 (Harvard tuition that year was $1760). Lakeside rented time on a [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] [[PDP-10]], which Bill was able to use to pursue an interest in computers, a rare opportunity at the time. Gates was a member of the [[Boy Scouts of America]] and attained the rank of [[Life Scout rank (Boy Scouts of America)|Life Scout]]. While in high school, he and [[Paul Allen]] founded [[Traf-O-Data]], a company which sold traffic flow data systems to state governments. He also helped to create a payroll system in COBOL, for a company in Portland, Oregon.

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According to a press inquiry he scored 1590 on his [[SAT]]s<ref>[http://theweekmagazine.com/article.aspx?id=803 The Week Magazine]</ref>, which allowed Gates to enroll in [[Harvard University]] pursuing a [[Bachelors of Science]] in [[Computer Science]] in 1973, where he met his future [[business]] partner, [[Steve Ballmer]]. During his second year at Harvard, Gates (along with [[Paul Allen]] and [[Monte Davidoff]]) co-wrote [[Altair BASIC]] for the [[Altair 8800]]. Gates dropped out of Harvard during his third year to pursue a career in [[software development]]. On [[December 13]], [[1977]], Gates was briefly jailed in Albuquerque for racing his [[Porsche 911]] in the [[New Mexico]] desert. <ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/152803.stm BBC News, ''Gates police mugshot found'']</ref>

==Microsoft==

[[Image:Time magazine 4 16 84.jpg|right|thumb|200px|In 1984, Bill Gates appeared on the cover of ''[[Time (magazine)|TIME]]'' Magazine; he has appeared seven more times.]]

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After reading the January 1975 issue of ''[[Popular Science]]'' that demonstrated the [[Altair 8800]], Gates called [[MITS]] (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems), the creators of the new microcomputer, to inform them that he and others had developed a version of the [[programming language]] [[BASIC programming language|BASIC]] for the platform. This was untrue, as Gates and Allen had never used an Altair previously nor developed any code for it. Within a period of eight weeks they developed an Altair [[emulator]] that ran on a minicomputer, and then the BASIC interpreter. Allen and Gates flew to MITS to unveil the new BASIC system. The demonstration was a success and resulted in a deal with MITS to buy the rights to Allen and Gates's BASIC for the Altair platform. It was at this point that Gates left Harvard along with Allen to found Micro-Soft, which was later renamed the [[Microsoft]] Corporation.

In February 1976, Gates published his often-quoted "[[Open Letter to Hobbyists]]". In the letter, Gates claimed that most users were using "stolen" [[software pirate|pirated]] copies of Altair BASIC and that no hobbyist could afford to produce, distribute, and maintain high-quality software without payment. This letter was unpopular with quite a few programmers, some of whom used the pirated copies of the software. In the ensuing years the letter gained significant support from Gates' business partners and allies which gave rise to a movement that led to [[closed-source]] becoming the dominant model of software production. <ref>[http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/gateswhine.html Bill Gates, ''An Open Letter to Hobbyists, February 3, 1976]</ref>

Despite Microsoft's reliance on closed source, Gates has said that he collected discarded program listings at Harvard and learned programming techniques from them. Some people have accused him of being inconsistent in this regard. It has also been pointed out that Microsoft often produces products that incorporate ideas developed outside Microsoft, such as [[GUI]]s, the BASIC programming language, or [[compressed file system]]s, without paying royalties to the companies that developed them. Some of these matters have gone to court. [[Apple v. Microsoft]] concluded that Microsoft had not infringed Apple's intellectual property (partly because Apple had, apparently, licensed parts of the Macintosh user interface to Microsoft); [[Stac Electronics]] prevailed in its claim against the [[DoubleSpace]] file system. The BASIC question has not been litigated, but the trend in US law, supported by [[Lotus v. Borland]], is that intellectual property applies to program implementations, not interfaces.

[[Image:Gates Dreaming.jpg|thumb|350px|left|Gates with [[Steve Jurvetson]] of [[Draper Fisher Jurvetson|DFJ]], Stratton Sclavos of [[Verisign]] and [[Greg Papadopoulos]] of [[Sun Microsystems]], [[October 1]], [[2004]]]]

When IBM decided to build the hardware for a desktop personal computer in 1980, it needed to find an operating system. Microsoft did not have any operating system at this point. The most popular microcomputer operating system at the time was [[CP/M]] developed by [[Digital Research]] in Monterey. The CP/M [[BIOS]] allowed software written for the [[Intel 8080]]/[[Zilog Z80]] family of [[microprocessors]] to run on many different models of computer from many different manufacturers. This device-independence feature was essential for the formation of the consumer software industry, as without it software had to be re-written for each different model of computer. Bill Gates referred IBM to [[Gary Kildall]], the founder of [[Digital Research]], but when they did not reach immediate agreement with him they went back to Gates who offered to fill their need himself. He did it by buying a [[CP/M]] clone called [[QDOS]] ("Quick and Dirty Operating System") from [[Tim Paterson]] of [[Seattle Computer Products]] for $56,000, which Microsoft renamed [[PC-DOS]].

Later, after [[Compaq]] licensed Phoenix Technologies' clone of the IBM [[BIOS]], the market saw a flood of IBM PC clones. Microsoft was quick to use its position to dominate the home computer operating system market. Microsoft began licensing its OS for use on non-IBM [[PC clone]]s, and called that version [[MS-DOS]] (for Microsoft [[Floppy disk|Disk]] [[Operating System]]). By marketing MS-DOS aggressively to manufacturers of IBM-PC clones, Microsoft went from a small player to one of the major software vendors in the home computer industry. Microsoft continued to develop operating systems as well as [[software applications]]. In the early 1980's they created [[Microsoft Windows]] which was similar to Apple Computer's Macintosh OS [[graphical user interface]] (GUI), both based on the human interface work at [[Xerox PARC]]. The first versions of the Windows OS did not sell well as stand-alone applications but started to be shipped pre-installed on many systems. Because of this, by the late-1980s [[Microsoft Windows]] had begun to make serious headway into the IBM-compatible PC software market. The release of [[Windows 3.0]] in 1990 was a tremendous success, selling around 10 million copies in the first two years and cementing Microsoft's dominance in operating systems. (See ''[[History of Microsoft Windows]]'' for more details)

Microsoft eventually went on to become the largest software company in the world, earning Gates enough money that [[Forbes Magazine]] named him the wealthiest person in the world for several years. Gates served as the [[CEO]] of the company until 2000 when [[Steve Ballmer]] took the position. Gates continues to serve as a chairman of the board at the company and also as a position he created for himself entitled "Chief Software Architect". Microsoft has thousands of patents, and Gates has nine patents to his name.

[[Image:Billgates.JPG|thumb|300px|right|Bill Gates giving his deposition at Microsoft on August 27, 1998]]

Since Microsoft's founding and [[as of 2006]], Gates has had primary responsibility for Microsoft's product strategy. He has aggressively broadened the company's range of products, and wherever Microsoft has achieved a dominant position he has vigorously defended it. Many decisions that have led to [[antitrust]] litigation over Microsoft's [[business practices]] have had Gates's approval. In the 1998 ''[[United States v. Microsoft]]'' case, Gates gave deposition testimony that several journalists characterized as evasive. He argued over the definitions of words such as "compete", "concerned", "ask", and "we." <ref>[http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9811/17/judgelaugh.ms.idg/index.html CNN, ''Gates deposition makes judge laugh in court'', November 17 1998]</ref> BusinessWeek reported, "early rounds of his deposition show him offering obfuscatory answers and saying 'I don't recall' so many times that even the presiding judge had to chuckle. Worse, many of the technology chief's denials and pleas of ignorance were directly refuted by prosecutors with snippets of e-mail Gates both sent and received." <ref>[http://www.businessweek.com/1998/48/b3606125.htm BusinessWeek, ''Microsoft's Teflon Bill'', 11/30/98]</ref>

==Personal life==

Bill Gates married [[Melinda Gates|Melinda French]] of [[Dallas, Texas]] on [[January 1]], [[1994]]. Melinda gave birth to three children, Jennifer Katharine Gates (1996), Rory John Gates (1999) and Phoebe Adele Gates (2002).

He has two younger sisters, one named Kristanne and one named Libby.

[[Bill Gates' house]] is one of the most expensive houses in the world, and is a modern 21st century [[earth sheltering|earth-sheltered home]] in the side of a hill overlooking [[Lake Washington]] in [[Medina, Washington]]. According to [[King County, Washington|King County]] public records, [[as of 2006]], the total assessed value of the property (land and house) is $125 million, and the annual [[property tax]] is just under $1 million. Also among Gates's private acquisitions is the [[Codex Leicester]], a collection of writings by [[Leonardo da Vinci]] which Gates bought for [[USD|$30.8 million]] at an auction in 1994 and a rare [[Gutenberg Bible]].

[[Image:BillGates and Lula1852.jpeg|thumb|right|Gates and [[Brazil]]ian President [[Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva]] at the [[World Economic Forum|WEF]] in [[Davos]], [[January 26]], [[2003]]]]

In 2000, Gates founded the [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]], a charitable organization, with his wife. The foundation's grants have provided funds for college [[scholarship]]s for under-represented minorities, [[AIDS]] prevention, [[disease]]s prevalent in [[Third World|third world]] countries, and other causes. In 2000, the Gates Foundation endowed the [[University of Cambridge]] with $210 million for the [[Gates Cambridge Scholarships]]. The Foundation has also pledged over $7 billion to its various causes, including $1 billion to the [[United Negro College Fund]]; and [[as of 2005]], had an estimated endowment of $29.0 billion. He has spent about a third of his lifetime income on charity, although some question his intentions. Journalist [[Greg Palast]] suggests that the Gates Foundation is used to make tactical donations to hide media sensitive humanitarian side effects of treaties, such as the [[Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights]] (TRIPS), which Gates has supported. TRIPS requires countries to agree to respect drug and other patents, therefore preventing the local manufacture of existing pharmaceuticals still under patent such as [[AIDS]] drugs in [[Africa]].<ref>[http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=235&row=1 Greg Palast, Bill Gates: Killing Africans for Profit and PR, July 14, 2003]</ref>

Gates has received two [[honorary doctorate]]s, from the [[Royal Institute of Technology]], [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]] in 2002 and [[Waseda University]] in 2005. Gates was also given an [[British honours system#Honorary Awards|honorary KBE]] ([[Knighthood]]) from [[Queen Elizabeth II]] of the [[United Kingdom]] in 2005 <ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3428673.stm BBC, ''Knighthood for Microsoft's Gates'', March 2 2005]</ref>, in addition to having [[entomology|entomologists]] name the Bill Gates flower fly, ''[[Bill Gates' flower fly|Eristalis gatesi]]'', in his honor. <ref>[http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/Diptera/syrphid/gates.htm Bill Gates' Flower Fly Eristalis gatesi Thompson]</ref>

Microsoft's CEO [[Steve Ballmer]] has stated that Gates is probably the most "spammed" person in the world, receiving as many as 4,000,000 [[e-mail]]s per day in 2004, most of which were junk. Gates has almost an entire department devoted to filtering out junk emails. <ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4023667.stm BBC, ''Bill Gates 'most spammed person'', 18 November 2004]</ref> In an article, Gates himself has said that most of this junk mail "offers to help [him] get out of debt or get rich quick", which "would be funny [given his financial state] if it weren't so irritating". <ref>[http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/ofnote/06-23wsjspam.mspx Gates, ''Why I Hate Spam'', June 23, 2003 (WSJ printing)]</ref>

==Influence and wealth==

[[Image:Bill Gates in Poland.jpg|thumb|Gates in [[Poland]], [[2006]]]]

Gates is widely considered one of the world's most influential people. He was listed in the ''[[The Sunday Times (UK)|Sunday Times]]'' power list in 1999, named [[CEO]] of the year by ''[[Chief Executive Officers magazine]]'' in 1994, ranked number one in the "Top 50 Cyber Elite" by ''[[TIME|Time]]'' in 1998, ranked number two in the ''[[Upside]]'' Elite 100 in 1999 and was included in ''[[The Guardian]]'' as one of the "Top 100 influential people in media" in 2001. Gates has been number one on the "[[Forbes 400]]" list through 1993-2006 and number one on ''[[Forbes]]'' list of "[[The World's Richest People]]" in 1996-2006, except for 1997 when the [[Hassanal Bolkiah|Sultan of Brunei]] was included despite Forbes' usual policy of excluding heads of state. In 2004, he became a [[Board of directors|director]] of [[Berkshire Hathaway]], the investment company headed by [[Warren Buffett]], the second wealthiest person in the world according to Forbes and a longtime friend of Gates.<ref>Ina Fried. [http://news.com.com/Gates+joins+board+of+Buffetts+Berkshire+Hathaway/2100-1014_3-5491312.html Gates joins board of Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway]. CNET News.com. December 14, 2004.</ref>

Since 2000, Gates's wealth has declined due to a fall in [[Dot-com#Thinning the herd|Microsoft's share price]] and the multi-billion dollar donations he has made to his charitable foundations. According to a 2004 ''[[Forbes]]'' magazine article, Gates gave away over $28.4 billion to charities from 2000 onwards. These donations are usually cited as sparking a substantial change in attitudes towards philanthropy among the very rich, as philanthropy eventually became the norm for the very rich. <ref>A survey of philanthropy by ''The Economist'' [25 February 2006] noted, "The media, which used to take little notice of charitable donations, now eagerly rank the super-rich by their munificence..."</ref>

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Gates has not engaged in [[conspicuous consumption]] beyond his lavish home, with its gardens and art collection. In contrast, his former associate [[Paul Allen]] has used his wealth in perhaps a more typical manner&mdash;owning sports teams, vintage airplanes, and multiple residences. Gates also claimed, in 2005, that he has gone to work every day since 1975, which in recent years includes both his role at Microsoft, and his leadership position at the Gates Foundation.

==Popular culture==

[[Image:TIME cover Persons of the Year 2005.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Bill Gates|Bill]] and [[Melinda Gates]] on the cover of TIME, with [[U2]] lead singer [[Bono]], as Persons of the Year 2005.]]

{{main|List of portrayals and references of Bill Gates}}

Bill Gates has been the subject of numerous parodies in film, television, and video games, often serving as an archetype for fictional megalomaniacal leaders of powerful corporations. Examples include

''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "[[Das Bus]]", ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "[[Screwed the Pooch]]", and the film ''[[Antitrust (film)|Antitrust]]''. Alternatively, but less frequently, these references portray a hacker genius. Gates is often characterized as the quintessential example of a super-intelligent "[[nerd]]" with immense power. This has in turn led to [[Popular culture|pop culture]] [[stereotype]]s of Gates as a [[tyrant]] or [[evil genius]], often resorting to ruthless business techniques. Gates has been caricatured several times on [[Saturday Night Live]] by [[Chris Kattan]] and [[Mark McKinney]]. He was also shown on ''[[South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut]]'', and was shot in the forehead in the movie. In an episode of [[Pinky and the Brain]], Gates was apparently a robotic body controlled by the Brain's rival Snowball, who used the profits of Microsoft to take over the world. He returned later in the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "[[The Entity (South Park)|The Entity]]", complete with a bullet hole in his forehead. Several films and television shows have portrayed either the real Bill Gates or a fictionalized version of him, often according to these [[cliché]]s, including an episode in the first season of the [[X-Files]] involving a man who lived inside a house that was operated by a computer (which, as it turned out, had a mind of its own).

At [[Live 8]], Gates appeared and made a speech before introducing [[Dido (singer)|Dido]].

== Works ==

Gates has published several essays throughout the years based on his theories, predictions and visions of the computing industry. In these publications he often expresses his personal views on current topics, and discusses Microsoft's plans. His writings have been published by ''[[BusinessWeek]]'', [[Newsweek]], ''[[USA Today]]'' and ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''. His publications since 1997 include:

* ''Person of the Year'', Time, [[December 2]], [[2005]]

* ''The New World of Work'', Executive E-mail, [[May 19]], [[2005]]

*''The PC Era Is Just Beginning'', Business Week, [[March 22]], [[2005]]

*''Building Software That Is Interoperable by Design'', Executive E-Mail, [[February 3]], [[2005]]

*''The Enduring Magic of Software'', InformationWeek, October 18, 2004

*''Preserving and Enhancing the Benefits of E-mail: A Progress Report'', Executive E-mail, [[June 28]], [[2004]]

*''Microsoft Progress Report: Security'', Executive E-mail, [[March 31]], [[2004]]

*''Losing Ground in the Innovation Race?'', CNET News.com, [[February 25]], [[2004]]

*''A Spam-Free Future'', The Washington Post, [[November 24]], [[2003]]

*''Why I Hate Spam'', The Wall Street Journal, [[June 23]], [[2003]]

*''Building Trust in Technology'', Global Agenda 2003 (World Economic Forum), [[January 23]], [[2003]]

*''Security in a Connected World'', Executive E-Mail, [[January 23]], [[2003]]

*''The Disappearing Computer'', The World in 2003 (The Economist), December 2002

*''Slowing the Spread of AIDS in India'', The New York Times, [[November 9]], [[2002]]

*''Trustworthy Computing'', Executive E-Mail, [[July 18]], [[2002]]

*''Computing You Can Count on'', April 2002

*''Tech in a Time of Trouble'', The World in 2002 (The Economist), December 2001

*''Moving into the Digital Decade'', [[October 29]], [[2001]]

*''The PC: 20 Years Young'', [[August 12]], [[2001]]

*''Why We’re Building .NET Technology'', [[June 18]], [[2001]]

*''Shaping the Internet Age'', Internet Policy Institute, December 2000

*''Now for an Intelligent Internet'', The World in 2001 (The Economist), November 2000

*''Will Frankenfood Feed the World?'', Time, [[June 19]], [[2000]]

*''Yes, More Trade with China'', Washington Post, [[May 23]], [[2000]]

*''The Case for Microsoft'', Time, [[May 7]], [[2000]]

*''Enter "Generation i"'', Instructor, March 2000

*''Product Distribution Goes Digital'', IEEE Internet Computing, January 2000

*''Beyond Gutenberg'', The World in 2000 (The Economist), November 1999

*''Everyone, Anytime, Anywhere'', Forbes ASAP, [[October 4]], [[1999]]

*''The Second Wave'', IEEE Internet Computing Magazine, [[August 18]], [[1999]]

*''Microprocessors Upgraded the Way We Live'', USA Today, [[June 22]], [[1999]]

*''Why the PC Will Not Die'', Newsweek, [[May 31]], [[1999]]

*''The Wright Brothers: The 100 Most Important People of the Century'', Time, [[March 29]], [[1999]]

*''Compete, Don't Delete'', The Economist, [[June 13]], [[1998]]

*''Who Decides What Innovations Go into Your PC?'', 1997

==See also==

*[[Microsoft]]

*[[Gates family]]

*[[History of Microsoft Windows]]

== Notes ==

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== References ==

*[http://www. Made kjjjjjhAmerica: Two Centuries of Innovators from the Steam Engine to the Search Engine" ISBN 0-316-27766-5

==External links==

{{Sisterlinks|Bill Gates}}

* [http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/bio.asp Biography of Bill Gates at Microsoft.com]

* [http://www.williamhenrygatesiii.com/bio.htm Celebrity Biography]

* [http://www.time.com/time/gates/cover0.html Time Magazine Profile]

* [http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Gates.Mirick.html Bill Gates before Microsoft]

* [http://www.voteview.com/gates.htm Entrepreneurs and American Economic Growth: William H. Gates]

* [http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/search-bool.html "Gates-III-William-H" at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office]

* [http://www.gatesfoundation.org/ Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation]

* [http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_gates.html Interview with Bill Moyers]

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3428721.stm BBC: Bill Gates profile]

* [http://labnol.blogspot.com/2005/05/inside-bill-gates-home.html Virtual Tour of Bill Gates Residence]

* [http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=506354&amp;amp;amp;page=1 Bill Gates speaks with Peter Jennings of ABC]

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4382112.stm BBC Interview with Bill Gates]

* [http://philip.greenspun.com/WealthClock The Bill Gates wealth clock]

* [http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/biography/F-L/Gates-Bill-1955.html Biography of Bill Gates]

* [http://www.forbes.com/static/bill2005/LIRBH69.html?passListId=10&amp;amp;amp;passYear=2005&amp;amp;amp;passListType=Person&amp;amp;amp;uniqueId=BH69&amp;amp;amp;datatype=Person Forbes: World's Richest People]

<strong>Criticisms of Bill Gates</strong><br>

* [http://www.freedomware.us Freedomware]

* [http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=114104 Employee Interviews Gates on Channel9]

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