Bill Gates

Twenty-nine of the best sites about legendary software magnate Bill Gates. Know of another site that should be listed here? Leave your suggestion at the bottom of this page. (Related searches: Windows Vista, Zune, Internet Explorer 7)

1. Bill Gates at Wikipedia - Summary of Bill Gates’ life and career from this user-generated online encyclopedia. (en.wikipedia.org)

2. Transcript: Bill Moyers Interviews Bill Gates - 2003 interview with Bill Gates, discussing his foundation’s goals in giving away billions of dollars toward fighting world health problems. (www.pbs.org)

3. Bill Gates’ Web Site - Microsoft page on Bill Gates includes a Gates biography, transcripts of speeches he has given, published essays and books he’s written and news on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (www.microsoft.com)

4. Will Microsoft Be Directionless Without Bill Gates? - May 21, 2008 article asks whether Bill Gates’ retirement is going to have an adverse effect on Microsoft’s fortunes. (news.cnet.com)

5. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - Foundation dedicated to giving away a good portion of Bill Gates’ wealth, especially focused on world health issues and education in the United States. (www.gatesfoundation.org)

6. How I Work: Bill Gates - April, 2006 article on the tools Bill Gates uses in his daily work life, especially how he deals with e-mail and the tremendous amount of information stored on his computers. (money.cnn.com)

7. Bill Gates Photo Montage - Eight pictures of Bill Gates spanning from age 13 to age 51. (political-figure.blogspot.com)

8. Cars of William Gates III - October, 2006 profile on Bill Gates’ automobiles features a picture of his 1999 Porsche 911 convertible. (www.forbesautos.com)

9. Bill Gates Coke Commercial - 1995 commercial for Coca-Cola in which Bill Gates wanders the halls looking for spare change to buy a Coke. (video.google.com)

10. Gates Finally Gets His Harvard Degree - June 8, 2007 article on Bill Gates receiving an honorary degree from Harvard, the university he dropped out of to start Microsoft. (seattletimes.nwsource.com)

11. Remarks of Bill Gates - Transcript of Bill Gates’ June 7, 2007 Harvard commencement address. (www.news.harvard.edu)

12. The Gates Millennium Scholars - Scholarship program funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation dedicated to “Reducing financial barriers for African-American, Hispanic American, American Indian/Alaska Native and Asian Pacific Islander American students with high academic and leadership promise who have a significant financial need.” (www.gmsp.org)

13. Bill Gates Mugshot - 1977 Albuquerque New Mexico police department photo of Bill Gates, after his arrest for multiple traffic violations. (www.mugshots.org)

14. The Bill Gates Interview - Reprint of the 1994 interview Bill Gates gave to Playboy magazine, including Gates’ recollections of the beginnings of Microsoft and his thoughts on an upcoming “information highway” that would transform the way people use computers and how they live. (beginnersinvest.about.com)

15. Bill Gates: Before Microsoft - Tells the story of Bill Gates’ life from birth up until the founding of Microsoft, including his first brush with computers at the Lakeside prep school in 1968, his first business successes with computer programming, and the writing of the BASIC programming language for the Altair 8080, a successful attempt which spurred Gates to drop out of Harvard and start Microsoft with Paul Allen. (ei.cs.vt.edu)

16. Bill Gates’ Place - A few shots of Bill Gates’ home, described here as his “$97 million home.” (www.goehner.com)

17. One-On-One with Bill Gates - 2005 interview with Bill Gates by ABC’s Peter Jennings touches on a variety of topics, including Microsoft, his foundation, his kids and more. (abcnews.go.com)

18. Together At Last - May 31, 2007 article on the joint appearance of Bill Gates and Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the D: All Things Digital Conferece, marking the first time the two had appeared together in decades. (www.sfgate.com)

19. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs D5 Highlights - Watch the complete video of the joint interview with Bill Gates & Steve Jobs at the 2007 D Conference. Also includes text transcript of the interview. (d5.allthingsd.com)

20. Holographic Bill Gates Terrorizes Kuala Lumpur Tech Conference - May 20, 2008 blog post showing Bill Gates appearing at a technology conference as a large holographic image. (www.engadget.com)

21. MS to Invest $150 Million in Apple - August 1997 article on Microsoft investing in Apple, and the negative reaction at the 1997 Macworld conference when Steve Jobs made the announcement and Bill Gates appeared via satellite. (news.com.com)

22. BillGatesMicrosoft.com - Looks to be an unauthorized Web site that offers quotes from Bill Gates, pictures of his home and car, history and random Gates facts, his net worth estimates over the years, etc. (www.billgatesmicrosoft.com)

23. Bill Gates Books at Amazon.com - Go here for books by and/or about Bill Gates. (www.amazon.com)

24. Microsoft Salutes A Retiring Bill Gates - Video from The Late Show with David Letterman pokes fun at Bill Gates, using the theme that Microsoft products are often buggy and error-prone. (www.youtube.com)

25. Bill Gates’ House - Diagram of Bill Gates’ home gives information and statistics on the pool building, grand staircase, offices, guest house, boathouse, estuary and more. (www.usnews.com)

26. Bill Gates: ‘TV is Terrible’ - January, 2007 report on Bill Gates’ comment at the World Economic Forum that the Internet will totally change the way people watch TV in five years, including writer Phillip Swann’s commentary that Gates is wrong. (www.tvpredictions.com)

27. Exclusive Lunch with Robert Scoble and Bill Gates - Video of a January, 2007 conversation Bill Gates had with a number of technology bloggers during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). (www.podtech.net)

28. Our Sixty Minutes with Bill Gates - December, 2006 post from Steve Rubel on the meeting between Bill Gates and a handful of high-profile bloggers, including a paraphrased transcript of some of the questions and answers in that meeting. (www.micropersuasion.com)

29. The Unofficial Bill Gates - Short bio, photos, history of Bill Gates. (www.zpub.com)