'Softies share their favorite Bill Gates stories (Channel 9)

'Softies share their favorite Bill Gates stories

Posted: Jun 27, 2008 at 9:33 AM

By: Dan Fernandez

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To remember Bill Gates's last day at Microsoft, we asked Larry Osterman, Bill Hill, Joan Hoshino, and Soma Somasegar to share their favorite Bill Gates stories.

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Zeo Channel 9 :)

Jun 27, 2008 at 12:46 PM

Awesome stories!
mtz

Jun 27, 2008 at 5:56 PM

for a second, i though that guy with the red shirt was richard stallman ..smile.. he look like him, doesnt he? ..my mind went to close to 200 different directions wondering what he could possibly be doing at microsoft ..then ..4 seconds later, i realised it wasnt him ...

..i havent watched the video so no comments about the video ..
dentaku

Jun 27, 2008 at 7:49 PM

How long has Larry been at Microsoft anyway?
Dan

Jun 27, 2008 at 10:11 PM

I believe since 1984, so 23 years
Doctor Who Picture is of Tom Baker, who played the Doctor, from 1974 to 1980.

Jun 28, 2008 at 6:20 AM

Fantastic!
Bas It finds lightbulbs.

Jun 28, 2008 at 9:53 AM

Way too little facial hair for him to be Stallman.

Those stories were neat. I love the idea of Bill in the car going "Faster, faster!"
TommyCarlier Widen your gaze

Jun 30, 2008 at 10:07 AM

Yeah, the car story was great.
sujayg Sujay

Jul 08, 2008 at 2:02 AM

Well I dont have much to share about Bill Gates. I had read two articles in a book, which I am sharing below :-

a) Bill Gates was spotted as an excellent programmer in his school days and he had started developing software for the classroom sitting arrangement. The software he developed had been designed in such a way, that the girls whom Bill Gates liked sat next to him !!!!!!!!!!

Don't you see Windows + IE6 or something of that in the above design.

b) Bill Gates gave the last finishing touches to MS-DOS in a flight. He was flying to meet IBM officials to give a demonstration of MS-DOS .

P.S. I read the above stuff in a book I borrowed from USIS.