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News broke early this week that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda are getting a divorce after 27 years of marriage. During their almost 30 year marriage, the wealthy couple has been very involved in philanthropic work as well as buying stunning pieces of real estate around the West Coast.
Check out below some of the massive homes the soon-to-be-exes own together. [links]
As Microsoft became huge, they faced a lot of monopoly problems. Not that Bill Gates kept putting up hotels on Boardwalk and Park Place, but the United States was investigating him for violating antitrust laws. The government had an eye on Microsoft since 1990, reports Wired, and in 1994 made Microsoft sign an agreement to not use their preeminence over the software world to keep out competition. In 1997, the U.S. struck again, filing a suit that Microsoft violated the agreement by forcing PC makers to ship Internet Explorer with Windows 95. The courts felt they were purposely keeping out competitors. The suit waged on, with Microsoft claiming it was easy to remove Internet Explorer and opposing witnesses saying it was impossible to remove. A lot of thrilling "can I delete this icon" trial footage is floating around somewhere.
Gates had a lot of respect for Allen. In fact, he dropped out of Harvard his sophomore year to join Allen in New Mexico to grow their business. But he didn't always treat him as an equal. When they debuted their first major project, the programming language BASIC, Gates spent hours double-checking all of Allen's work. Turns out, it was error-free.
The Gates foundation also gives away millions in college scholarships and other educational causes. He's given nearly a billion dollars out in scholarships to minority students and recently set up a Cambridge scholarship program with a trust of $210 million. All in all, Bill and Melinda Gates have donated nearly $30 billion. It's nice to see all those billions aren't just going to trampoline maintenance.
In 1977, Gates was arrested in New Mexico, though his exact crime wasn't recorded. Could it be some kind of computer/drug smuggling scheme? No, it was a traffic violation, and they just didn't record what specific error led to his arrest. Though the details are sketchy, it definitely happened, and Albuquerque has the smiling mug shot to prove it (via The Telegraph). It's doubtful that a DUI was to blame, since few drunks can look so clean cut and wholesome while the cops are documenting their crimes. [links]
Gates seemed to take the Q&A seriously and even filmed a sketch to promote it. Clearly a viewer of "Saturday Night Live," Gates did a David Pumpkins sequel, as "Christmas Pumpkins." Though his dancing leaves something to be desired, it's good that Gates chose to keep the Tom Hanks voice and do some fine lip syncing work.
Earlier this month, taking a serious view of the death of seven tribal girls in the context of the observation studies, the Supreme Court asked the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to explain how permissions were given.
The committee observed that on November 16, 2006, a draft memorandum of understanding (MoU) between PATH and the ICMR was circulated by the latter. The MoU states that the two parties desire “. to explore collaboration to support public sector decision regarding HPV vaccine introduction in India and to generate necessary evidence to allow the possible introduction of HPV vaccine into India’s Universal Immunization Programme.” That idea appears to have hit a roadblock following the deaths of the children during the observation studies.
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Not only was he no longer reliant on his own company’s success for his own personal wealth, but he set himself up to make even bigger moves in the decades to come.
The bottom line is, once again, Bill Gates was right. [links]
Some of the biggest critics of Gates have deemed his philanthropy as a budding ‘technocracy’ – a “tyranny of experts” that both centralizes power into a private corporations’ interests.
FACT#12. Bill Gates knows no other language than English. This is the biggest regret in his life. more
FACT#27. You would be surprised to know that despite being a friend of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates does not have a Facebook account.
FACT#29. When he was at Howard College, he had found a solution for the nearly thirty-year-old ‘Pancake Sorting’ problem, but when his professor informed him that his achievement would be printed in an academic paper, he did not care much because then By the time he left college to start Microsoft.
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, software developer, and philanthropist. He is best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation.[2][3] During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president, and chief software architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. He is one of the best-known entrepreneurs and pioneers of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. Today we will talk about some and unknown interesting facts about Bill Gates. So let’s know about the interesting facts related to “Bill Gates” and his life.