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William H. (Bill) Gates - Chairman and chief executive officer of
Microsoft.
Born October 28, 1955
Reported to be the richest private individual in the World with a
net worth of over 50 billion dollars. He dropped out of Harvard to
pursue a career in software... Married Melinda French (a Product Manager
at Microsoft) on January 1, 1994 in Hawaii. First child, Jennifer
Katherine, was born on April 26, 1996. Bill's mother Mary Gates died
in 1994. Bill has two sisters, Kirsti and Libby. Kirsti is one year
older than Bill and Libby is nine years younger. [BG
FAQ]
bio at Bill
Gates' Microsoft Web Site and
Bill Gates:
Before Microsoft by John Mirick |
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Wealth: Down from the 100 billion + peak. See: Bill
Gates Personal Wealth Clock for an up to the minute count. But
he still keeps topping Forbes
list of the World's Richest People. Want to be as rich as Bill? See
Why Bill Gates
is Richer than You by Philip Greenspun |
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The Bill
Gates FAQ says to try billg@microsoft.com or to his column at:
askbill@microsoft.com.
Microsoft Corporation:
(NasdaqNM:MSFT)
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
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The
"ecology" House:
[more photos] On the
shores of Lake Washington [1835 73rd Ave NE, Medina,
WA 98039?map].
Costing $97 million ) and 66,000 square feet. ... originally spun
as an "ecology house". An interview
with Bill's Gatekeeper
... It took seven years to build the 40,000-square-foot mansion on
a wooded five-acre compound in the moneyed Seattle suburb of Medina.
Designed by James Cutler [listed in county records as 48K square feet]
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| Books:
Books about
or related to Bill Gates - from Books that mock Bill to Books
for FOBs
Lawsuits
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Now that Janet Reno's U.S. "Department of Justice" suit
winds down, along comes AOL ...
"In the old, dog-eat-dog days, corporations battled for
market share by introducing new goods and services, advertising,
lowering prices, improving quality, adding features and offering
superior service," Robert Levy, senior fellow in constitutional
studies at the Cato Institute, said in a statement. "Today's
corporate giants like Netscape -- an Internet startup supposedly
mangled by Microsoft, then acquired by AOL for a mere $10
billion -- can avoid the nitty-gritty of competition by sucking
up to politicians and, if that doesn't work, filing an antitrust
suit to punish any rival with the temerity to develop a better
product." ... "I like AOL for some things, but as an
ISP they suck," said Mike Gonver, a technical support representative
for PC Power. "It's really hard to connect because you often
get busy signals when you try to log on, and once you are on,
chances are the service will disconnect you, usually right as
the big file that you're downloading is almost completely downloaded.
If I can't connect through my own service provider, it's not worth
the hassle. A lot of our customers are saying the same thing."
In a Consumer Reports magazine survey conducted in August,
60 percent of AOL users who responded said their connections had
been interrupted during the previous month, the worst record of
all surveyed ISPs. Exactly
What Is AOL Up To? By Michelle Delio, Wired, Jan. 23,
2002
AOL Sucks, and
why I left them
AOL Sux Images
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Your Comments about AOL
More ...
Pie in the face - February 4, 1998
Microsoft and the DOJ ... phi·lan·thro·py
Bill Gates - Humor, Articles and more
Arrested in New Mexico 1977.
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