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more about #gates more comments → plbg32: due to the generosity of bill gate's parents in the beginning of the 70's i was exposed to a paper tape key punch machine with a modem that connected ... more » NaomiVespillo: From 1978-80 we lived in Bellevue, WA. My husband was doing a post doc at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He remembers passing a sign on his... more » tencommandments: Keep helping the world Bill!!! more » formicae: I love old pictures of Bill. I mean, the mugshot, and the one in this feature, he looks like he's just letting the awesomeness of his own life wash ov... more » justsomereportingguy: wow, I read this and thought it was just another neat article on the whole retro '79 thing (great articles BTW). then I started reading comments and ... more » jriga: LOL at people saying Bill has so much more humility than Jobs. Let no one forget that both men are cut-throat business men running multi-billion dolla... more » BernadetteNange: I was hating microsoft blindly till i put my hands on a mac ..... that ignited a thought process appreciating all the smart ideas went into the creati... more » selfprofessedgeek: this is great, hearing from one of the richest guys in the world, who helped shape the Tech world into what it is now I'll confess here: I love XP an... more » Blakamin: So where are all the people that were saying the giz '79 week was crap? Oh, that's right, they're hiding in the corner. edit: Go Bill, love what the... more » immumo: Bill reads Giz?! That changed a whole lot of my perceptions :) Its soo cool to read things like this, about things that happened even before I was bo... more » J.T.: Giz just won quite a bit more clout in my book. It's posts like these that make Gizmodo a constantly interesting read. Thanks, Bill, for sharing you... more » Zodduska: You're awesome Bill! Thanks for making the world a better place! more » tim rogers: whoa -- if bill gates reads gizmodo, what are the chances he's read my articles on kotaku?? bill gates! can i have a million dollars -- just a millio... more » yogibimbi: what I think is impressive is that the little kid in the bottom left corner was making all those rather mature looking hairy personnel do whatever it ... more » RalphDandradeine: I have great respect for Bill Gates - the Gates foundation does more for the world than most people can possibly imagine. more » -
#gizmodo79
Bill Gates: My 1979 Memories
Our Gizmodo '79 celebration may have ended last week, but there's room for a final post, written by famed retiree and mosquito wrangler Bill Gates. It's no joke: Gates read the series then sent this in: More » -
#microsoft
Microsoft's Last Financial Quarter Could've Used a Service Pack
Results for last quarter are in, and with revenues reported well below already cautious estimates, it was a nasty few months for Microsoft. It's almost as if they're sitting on new generations of products in every single space they inhabit. More » -
#bluetooth
BlueGuard Opens Doors When You Get Within Bluetooth Range
Oh the convenience of not having to use keys—that's what you get with a Bluetooth-enabled cellphone and BlueGuard, the automatic door opener. More » -
#billgates
Bill Gates on What He Learned From His Father
Bill Gates may have gotten doused by his father for having a smart mouth, but that doesn't mean he's not grateful for everything the older Gates taught him. -
#retromodo
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates In a Dating Game Is a Magical Memory
This 1983 Apple Event where Steve Jobs invites three software CEOs, including Bill Gates, into a dating game is the type of thing we want to see at the next Apple event. More » -
#microsoftadvertising
First Screenshot of the New Microsoft Ads, I'm a PC and I Shark Dive!
And here you have it! A couple hours later, we have our first screen from the new Microsoft ad campaign. Now THIS represents me as a PC-user... I hang with SHARKS, man! [Does anyone from Crispin who works on this campaign know if Seinfeld being pulled was a part of the plan or not? I've got a bet going with the Valleywag Rumormongers. —Blam][New York Times] -
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#microsoftad
Second Gates-Seinfeld Ad Shows They're Very Rich, Unlike Us
Remember that first Seinfeld-and-Gates adventure into Shoe Circus, which alluded to something about Windows being “soft and chewy and delicious?” Well, the new Laural and Hardy of ambiguous advertising have a new spot out and it's... making fun of your average scalloped potato-eating, leather giraffe from Cabo-buying, grumpy Grandma-having Suburban family. The incredibly rich duo try to connect on a “normal people” level and kind of fail utterly. Like Windows Vista. I think. More » -
#billgatesretirementparty
Bill Gates Retirement Party
The time has come. On June 27th, Bill Gates will stop commuting to Microsoft's Redmond campus on a daily basis, and begin full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. You probably know that for Bill, retirement doesn't mean what it meant for your dear old granddad. He will still visit his Redmond office once per week, doing what Ballmer tells him to do. Nevertheless, it's the furthest Bill will ever separate himself from the software biz while he's living on this planet, so it's something to commemorate, for better or worse. More » -
#allthingsd
All Things D Live: Melinda Gates, Bride of Bill
One of the most fascinating profiles I've read this year is the Melinda Gates cover story from Fortune. She's here at Walt and Kara's All Things D Conference to talk about The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where Bill will be directing most of his energy come July. Although this is not directly gadget related, I'm excited to hear how Microsofties make philanthropy happen in their own way. More »
