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 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 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.
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.
Microsoft's Bill Gates: Steve Jobs was a genius in this area
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) co-founder Steve Jobs. "Steve was very different than I was, I mean, in terms of intuitive sense of a good user interface,
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 ...
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.
Bill Gates was going 'founder mode' in 1976 before the term existed
Before Paul Graham defined "founder mode," Bill Gates embodied a similar approach when cofounding Microsoft in the 1970s.
Bill Gates: I'm A "Little Disappointed" In Elon Musk, He's "Been Nice To Me At Times, And Mean To Me At Times"
Microsoft founder Bill Gates joins CNN’s Anderson Cooper and discusses Elon Musk's role in President Donald Trump's ...
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 says humans will not be needed for "most things" thanks to AI
Fallon asked Gates about the pros and cons of AI on Tuesday, and the Microsoft co-founder's answer gave the show host some pause after asking if humans will no longer be needed. Gates went on to ...
Bill Gates shares his thoughts on vaccine backlash, Intel’s woes and Google’s antitrust battle
Although Microsoft founder Bill Gates sat down for an interview with The Associated Press to discuss his new memoir, “Source ...
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 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.