Microsoft, Bill Gates

Bill Gates says Steve Ballmer was the business partner he badly needed — so he gave up 4% of Microsoft to recruit him
Steve Ballmer mirrored Bill Gates' energy, boosted his social life, and became the round-the-clock business partner he needed.
Bill Gates: AI Would Be My Focus If Starting Microsoft Today
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says he would focus on AI if launching a startup today, as the technology attracts billions in investments.
Bill Gates reflects on his youth, beginnings of Microsoft, in new memoir
In his new memoir, "Source Code," billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates opens up about his adolescence and early adult life.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates explores the making of his internal operating system in new memoir
With his 70th birthday looming on this year’s horizon, Microsoft founder Bill Gates looked inward to open a window into the man behind Windows and other seminal software that turned the personal computer into a household staple.
Bill Gates reveals Steve Jobs told him to take acid to make Microsoft's products cooler
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has revealed in an interview that Apple founder Steve Jobs told him to take acid to make Microsoft's products more interesting.
Microsoft's Bill Gates: Steve Jobs was a genius in this area
Time usually gives way to perspective and appreciation. That's where I found Microsoft (MSFT) co-founder Bill Gates to be in a recent chat about his onetime rival, the late Apple (AAPL ...
Steve Jobs asked Bill Gates to ‘take acid’ to design better products? Microsoft co-founder recalls...
Billionaire Bill Gates recalled how Apple co-founder Steve Jobs once told him how he wished Gates would have used acid (drugs) to design better products, reported the news portal Fortune.
Bill Gates uses the ‘love and logic’ parenting style with his children that his dad used to support him
Bill Gates says his father's 'love and logic' parenting technique was so effective he used it with his own children.
In chat with Bill Gates, Mark Cuban compares big NBA trade to Microsoft unloading Windows 11
Mark Cuban, former majority owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks. (GeekWire File Photo) Mark Cuban tapped Bill Gates for some ...
Bill Gates Feared Getting Kicked Out of Harvard During His Sophomore Year. Here’s What He Says Happened
Bill Gates famously dropped out of Harvard University during his junior year — but in his new memoir, Source Code, he's ...
How this Apple gadget that continues to be No. 1 in market, even 15 years after its launch failed to impress Microsoft founder Bill Gates
Apple CEO Steve Jobs revealed that the iPad outsold Macs, marking a significant milestone in just six months. The iPad became ...
Bill Gates’ book ‘Source Code’ is a surprisingly candid memoir of the Microsoft mogul’s early years
The first in a planned trilogy of books about his life, Source Code covers Gates' remarkable childhood in Seattle, his brief ...
Bill Gates Slams Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos: 'Rich People Can Do Whatever They Want… But Malnourishment Is the Worst Thing There Is'
Bill Gates criticized Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos for focusing on space exploration instead of pressing global issues like ...
Bill Gates says he got into every Ivy League school he applied to, but tailored a different ‘persona’ for each application: ‘Each was a performance’
I wanted the chance to see how I stacked up against the other brainy kids from a much wider pool than Lakeside,” Gates said.
Double Billing: Bill Gates and Bill Nye geek out on computers, science and changing human history
Bill Nye, the "Science Guy," and Bill Gates, the software guy, came together on one stage Thursday night in Seattle for an ...