bill gates
- News
Bill Gates is Stepping Down From Microsoft’s Board of Directors
For twenty years now, Bill Gates has largely taken a back seat role at Microsoft. Originally founding the company back in 1975, he has preferred in more recent years to spend his more time more on his charity projects. This even includes (and I’m not joking) him attempting to re-invent…
Read More » - News
Bill Gates Turns Down Donald Trump For Science Adviser Role
Bill Gates Turns Down A Science Adviser Job From Donald Trump When you’re Bill Gates, I imagine that your input would be valued in a wide variety of subjects. Aside from the fact that he is one of the richest men on the planet, the founder of Microsoft is well…
Read More » - News
Gabe Newell Answers Reports Of Microsoft Purchasing Valve
Gabe Newell Earlier this week, reports/rumours were emerging that Valve was considering selling up and that Microsoft was in a prime position to buy it. Now, admittedly, at the time, we didn’t report on it. Why? Because the rumour sounded completely stupid. Gabe Newell, the man, the legend, himself, however,…
Read More » - News
Bill Gates Once Wrote A Game That Apple Thought Was Awful
Bill Gates When you think of Bill Gates it certainly brings a lot of things to mind. I daresay, however, that one of those things was not ‘game developer’. If it didn’t, don’t worry, I don’t think he would consider it a big part of his resume. Despite that, Bill…
Read More » - News
Bill Gates Buys Land with Plan to Build a Smart City
Bill Gates buys land in a barren Arizona desert to build a ‘smart city’ Having so much money that you don’t know what to do with it. It must be a nice problem. Definitely, one that I don’t have. Microsofts Founder Bill Gates likely does have this problem. He does,…
Read More » - News
Bill Gates Admits he has Switched to a Competitor
Bill Gates candidly admits preferring a competitor. In a rather candid interview, the founder of Microsoft Bill Gates has admitted that in at least one area in his life, he has, by choice, switched to a competitor. Before the hysteria begins, he hasn’t changed his operating system to Linux, but…
Read More » - News
Bill Gates Discusses the One Thing He Regrets About Windows – And it Isn’t Vista!
Personally, I would have picked Vista The Founder of Microsoft Bill Gates has revealed he has one major regret about his operating system Windows. Surprisingly as well, it was not Vista. I do, however, suspect that like Rumplestiltskin, just uttering the word Vista might make Bill Gates disappear. No, Bill Gates…
Read More » - News
Bill Gates Predicts Facebook and Netflix in 1994 Playboy Interview
Back in 1994, Bill Gates, founder and then-CEO of Microsoft, was riding high. His company’s operating system, Windows, was starting to gain traction in the home PC market, and he personally entered the Forbes list of richest people in the US. That same year, Gates took part in an interview…
Read More » - News
Bill Gates Wants Robots to Pay Taxes
While the impending massive job loss due to significantly increased automation is worrying many people whose careers and livelihoods might be affected, Bill Gates has a different take on the matter. In an interview with Quartz, Gates explains that robotic labor has a positive impact in that it will free…
Read More » - News
Bill Gates’ Donkey Game Becomes Available on iPhones and Apple Watches
Bill Gates is known for many things, and one of his greatest achievements was to co-found one of the world’s most famous software companies: Microsoft. However, Gates also has plenty of other notches in his belt, including programming the world’s first PC game. The game in question was actually co-written by…
Read More » - News
Bill Gates Would Drop Out of College for These Jobs Today
During a talk at Columbia University, Microsoft founder Bill Gates – famously a college dropout – revealed to students the jobs he would leave school to take today. While Gates was certainly not advising attendees of the Ivy League school should necessarily drop out – the billionaire is a major…
Read More » - News
Bill Gates Gifts Generous Gaming Collection in Reddit Secret Santa
The Secret Santa tradition is a way of spreading holiday cheer throughout a workplace and ensure everyone receives something within a suitable budget. Of course, if you’re not overly familiar with the person in question, it can be difficult to find a present which suits their interests. Nevertheless, it’s harmless…
Read More » - News
Bill Gates ‘Will Look Into’ New Age of Empires
Bill Gates is known for a lot of things from his ability to keep track of employees by their license plates to his recent investments in green energy. What would you expect then when the man takes to Reddit for an ama (ask me anything) thread? It would seem that someone…
Read More » - News
Bill Gates “Disappointed” by Reports He Supports FBI over Apple
Yesterday, Bill Gates weighed in on the current feud between Apple and the FBI over the decryption of an iPhone belonging to a mass shooting suspect, during which he reportedly came out in support of the FBI, asserting that Apple should comply with the order to unlock the phone, something…
Read More » - News
Bill Gates Predicts an “Energy Miracle” That Will Change the World
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has predicted that an “energy miracle” is coming, and that it will change the world forever. Gates, in the 2016 draft of the letter he and his wife write every year, explains that, by “miracle,” he means “The personal computer. The Internet. The polio vaccine. None of…
Read More »