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Bill Gates And Paul Allen Recreate Iconic 1981 Microsoft Photo
Back in 1981, Bill Gates and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen pulled of an audacious feat: they licensed MS-DOS to IBM in a deal that saw them retain entire control of the software. To mark the occasion, the pair were photographed amid a sea of contemporary computers — and now they’ve recreated the image.
Bill Gates Has $100,000 For Anyone Who Can Invent A High-Tech, Next-Gen Condom
Condom’s are a life-saving piece of tech, and for being little more than deflated latex balloons, they do their job pretty well if you wear them. That’s the part that Bill Gates is working on. No, he’s not going around as a one-man condom-police army, but he is offering $US100,000 to anyone who can make a condom less of a bummer to wear.
When Microsoft Threatened To Sue Us Over The Letter ‘E’
By 1997, E.piphany was a fast growing startup with customers, revenue and something approaching a repeatable business model. Somewhere that year we decided to professionalise our logo (you should have seen the first one.) With a massive leap of creativity we decided that it should it should have our company name and the letter “E” with a swoop over it.
Bill Gates’ Donkey Game From 1981 Hits iPhones
One of the earliest games to ever feature on a “personal computer”, co-written by Bill Gates, was Donkey — a driving game in which you had to avoid donkeys. For years, it’s been missing from your life, but don’t worry: now you can get it on iOS.
Bill Gates Modifying Bananas For The Third World
If you thought Geek legend and Microsoft founder Bill Gates would come all the way to Australia just for a holiday, you’re very mistaken. Turns out the billionaire took some time for a secret meeting with Aussie scientists to check on the progress of some genetically modified bananas he’d been bankrolling…
Bill Gates Not Going Back To Microsoft
Bill Gates and his family are enjoying a holiday in the miserable Sydney weather at the moment (seriously, this is supposed to be summer?), and took a moment to speak with the SMH about a range of topics, including his supposed return to the Microsoft top job. Turns out it’s not going to happen.
Bill Gates Building Nuke Plant For China
What do you do when you’ve run out of things to spend money on, and everyone already uses your software? How about developing a nuclear plant with China? Sure! Bill Gates is doing just that, the AP reports. For science?
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