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Dork and Melindy: Mrs Gates Made Bill Brill
2:08AM Gizmodo US Edition | While everyone this week spent time recognising Bill’s achievements, I’d like to recognise Mrs. Bill, Melinda Gates. In a quarter-century’s time, after her husband has shuffled offstage at the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm clutching his gong, after the applause has died down, those people who like to discuss such things will say, “It was the wife wot won it.” More »
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Bill Gates Bids Farewell to his Colleagues with a Lump in his Throat
1:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | Despite my best efforts to distract the world’s media from Bill Gates’ departure from Microsoft yesterday, the software genius-turned philanthropist held his own. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has an audio file of the great man’s two-minute speech to his employees in Redmond. His voice cracks when he mentions Steve Ballmer, and all the “incredible people” at the company he founded, and you can hear the pride in his voice when he talks about how they changed the world. “You’ve made it so much fun for me, there won’t be a day in my life that I’m not thinking about Microsoft and the great things it’s doing. Thank you for making it the centre of my life and so much fun.” Oh, that’s set me off again. [Seattlepi via CNET] More »
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Bill Gates You Have a Retirement E-Card from Gizmodo
11:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | Well, the time has come. It’s 6 p.m., and according to the Bill Gates’ retirement video, this is the exact moment Bill is leaving from his last day of work. With this monumental occasion, we thought it was only fitting we send him off with an MSN e-card. Feel free to give your best wishes to Bill in the comments. [Bill Gates' Retirement Party on Giz] More »
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Retromodo: Bill Gates Last Moments at the Office CES 2008 Video
9:11AM Benny Goldman | Is Bill’s last day in the office going just like this video he showed us back at CES? Rumour has it that its going EXACTLY like this, but with a bit more emotion. [Original Post] More »
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Things No One Gives Microsoft Credit For (But Should)
6:49AM Matt Buchanan | Microsoft gets more crap than any other company in tech. That’s partly because it’s given us garbage like Clippy, Microsoft BOB and Windows Vista. And it’s partly because it’s arguably the most important company in personal computing. Sure, Apple gets all the fawning press for designing pretty, easy-to-use gadgets. But Microsoft is rarely credited for being why mainstream tech has come this far–a computer on every desk, the explosion of the internet, even the idea of a common UI across applications. Even smarmy Mac and Linux snobs have a lot to thank Microsoft for, even if they don’t want to. More »
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Men’s Vogue on Bill Gates’s Style: ‘A Fashionable Guy’
5:30AM Mark Wilson | What would you wear every day if you could wear anything? We’re talking no limits, not from bank accounts or corporate wardrobe requirements, not those snarky writers from US Weekly or the sexy lady judging the size of your 401k by the validity of your Rolex.
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The Bill Gates Timeline
4:40AM Gizmodo US Edition | Here it is, the definitive Bill Gates timeline. It may contain some bugs and lack some features, but it works: from his parents to the last day of his work at Microsoft, the Bill Gates timeline shows his personal and business adventure–on the top–in relation to the tech industry–on the bottom–as his company takes over it all. More »
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Retromodo: Gizmodo’s Bill Gates Interviews Through History
3:15AM Wilson Rothman | Bill Gates puts up with us, having granted us three interviews in the past three and a half years. It’s an intense experience: Bill isn’t always fond of making eye contact, and is known to snap at reporters who ask dumb questions. After all, he’s not just the Andrew Carnegie–or Emperor Palpatine–of his time. He’s also a guy who gets interviewed a hell of a lot, and doesn’t stand for bush-league Q&A. But we have always enjoyed the guys company and even have had the opportunity to make him laugh a few times. Here’s a quick look back at our three Bill interviews, in a Retromodo re-run fashion: More »
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Retromodo: Our Bill Gates CES 2008 Interview
12:42AM Wilson Rothman | What’s a Bill Gates sendoff without this January’s CES video interview with the man? That there’s the full 20 minutes–digitally remastered and with all of my awkward stuttering intact. If you just want to re-live the juiciest bits, including the famous “What Did Bill Just Say About Windows?” moment, you can pick and choose from the list: Part 1 – On the difference between Microsoft and Apple Part 2 – On his changing public image Part 3 – What he worries about most Part 4 – On Windows Vista maybe, just maybe, sucking -Video and Digital Remastering by Chris Mascari More »
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