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Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are interviewed live together at the D5: All Things Digital conference. In this historic conversation, Jobs and Gates are asked to comment on each other's greatest contributions to digital technology, as well as what they perceive to be their lives' legacies.

Learn about how Bill Gates has been successful. As he built his own company. Where to start, and he became a billionaire.

Bill Gates is cofounder, chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft, the most successful software company in the world, renowned for making software that is powerful and innovative while still being user friendly. Microsoft now employs more than 55,000 people in 85 countries.

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are interviewed live together at the D5: All Things Digital conference. In this historic conversation, Jobs and Gates are asked to comment on each other's greatest contributions to digital technology, as well as what they perceive to be their lives' legacies.

The Money Programme's Fiona Bruce gains exclusive access to Bill Gates as he prepares to step down from full-time involvement with Microsoft, the company he helped found. Gates's company has changed the world, but he's a controversial figure, with his ruthless business leadership contributing to Microsoft being sued by the US government.

Microsoft Chairman and the co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was a guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart this week, almost three years since his previous appearance on the show. However, in just three years, Gates’ focus has changed dramatically. Whereas at the start of 2007 the Microsoft co-founder was busy advertising the young Windows Vista operating system, this time around he focused on his philanthropic efforts. Gates left Microsoft for a full-time role with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, choosing to attempt to provide solutions for critical global problems including health, poverty and education.

Bill Gates heads the biggest software, services and Internet technologies company in the world. Steve Jobs predicted the personal computer revolution and made it happen. So who is the most powerful in the world of computing?

Bill Gates ends his full-time job at Microsoft on a Friday afternoon and the company opens for business after the weekend as if nothing has changed.

Microsoft Chairman and the cochair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was a guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart this week, almost three years since his previous appearance on the show. However, in just three years, Gates focus has changed dramatically. Whereas at the start of 2007 the Microsoft cofounder was busy advertising the young Windows Vista operating system, this time around he focused on his philanthropic efforts. Gates left Microsoft for a fulltime role with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, choosing to attempt to provide solutions for critical global problems including health, poverty and education.

Bill Gates heads the biggest software, services and Internet technologies company in the world. Steve Jobs predicted the personal computer revolution and made it happen. So who is the most powerful in the world of computing?

- He has an IQ of 160
- He dropped out (DO) of Harvard University in 1975
- His company, Microsoft, went public on 28 October 1985, his 30th birthday.
- He Became a billionaire (US dollars) at age 31, making him the youngest self-made billionaire in history.
- He has been the richest man in the world consistently every year since 1998.
- As of 2005, his personal fortune was in excess of $46 billion.
- He was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome.

Triumph of the Nerds is still one of the best public level documentaries about the origins and development of personal computers from their beginnings in the mid 70s on through the IBM/Apple years and into the mid 90s with the launch of Windows 95. It is dated somewhat, especially at the end with the forecasts about the future growth of the internet and what it would mean to PC and Mac development and the world. Nothing was truer then than remains today, predicting the long term future of the computer and internet industry is simply impossible.

A heartfelt, deeply personal book, Showing Up for Life shines a bright light on the values and principles that Bill Gates Sr. has learned over a lifetime of "showing up" - lessons that he learned growing up in the Great Depression, and which he instilled in his children and continues to practice on the world stage as the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are the two richest men in America and very close friends. Though a generation apart in age, and founders of two very different businesses, each has a deep admiration for the other. They share a sense of responsibility to use their wealth to improve the world. In September 2005, the two men spent the day at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln with students and faculty from the College of Business Administration.