Bill Gates at 60: A look back
By Paul McNamara,
Network World |
Oct 27, 2015 7:14 AM
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Some of the man’s more memorable photos … including ones he’d rather forget.
Bill Gates -- founder of Microsoft, the world’s richest man, and a philanthropist for the ages -- will celebrate his 60th birthday on Oct. 28. He doesn’t look a day over 50. To commemorate the occasion, we’ve put together a collection of Bill Gates photos, some iconic, some surprising and one or two that are less than flattering.
Enough said.
The Rolling Stones classic “Start Me Up” may be most associated with the launch of Windows 95, but comedian Jay Leno also lent Gates a hand.
Gates promotes Internet Explorer 4.0 in San Francisco on Sept. 30 1997.
He’s not in this picture, obviously, but it belongs here.
Taken July 21, 1998, after Steve Ballmer was named president of Microsoft.
Gates’ first book, The Road Ahead, was published in 1995.
Business @ The Speed of Thought was published in March 1999.
Gates giving his deposition at Microsoft on Aug. 27, 1998 during the company’s antitrust case.
Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, shakes hands with Gates at a global health discussion in Seattle Dec. 9, 1999.
Gates and Paul Allen chat courtside during a game between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Portland Trailblazers on March 11, 2003.
Gates and wife Melinda play with a baby during a visit to the Manhica Health Research Centre in Mozambique on Sept. 21, 2003, shortly after donating $168 million to fight malaria.
Gates speaks as wife Melinda and Warren Buffet, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, look on during a news conference June 26, 2006 shortly after Buffett signed over much of his $44 billion fortune to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Gates and Steve Jobs on stage together at the D5 conference in 2007.
Guitarist Slash, pictured at left, plays next to Gates onstage during Gates' keynote address for the Consumer Electronics Show on Jan. 6, 2008.
These ads were not a big hit when they aired in 2008.
Former President Bill Clinton and Gates testify at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on March 10, 2010.
Gates listens while his wife Melinda Gates speaks to the media at an advance tour of the $15 million visitor center of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation $500 million campus in Seattle on Feb. 1, 2012.
Gates takes part in a discussion during the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting in New York on Sept. 27, 2015.
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