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   Bill Gates

   He wrote his first computer program on this machine: an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer. ... ↑ Gates, Bill.
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   Criticism of Microsoft

   When Microsoft discovered that its first product, Altair BASIC, was subject to widespread illegal copying, Microsoft founder Bill Gates wrote an Open Letter to Hobbyists that openly accused many hobbyists of stealing software. ... Sun Microsystems, which held Microsoft in violation of contract for including a modified version of Java in Microsoft Windows that provided Microsoft proprietary extensions to the standard Java language; Microsoft lost this decision in court and were forced to stop shipping their proprietary Java Virtual Machine.
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   TRS-80 Model 100 line

   According to Gates, "part of my nostalgia about this machine is this was the last machine where I wrote a very high percentage of the code in the product". ... ↑ Gates, Bill.
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   Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

   ↑ Bill Gates Gives $122M for D.C. Scholarships.. ... Gates, Rockefeller foundations join to fight hunger in Africa 2006 Seattle Post-Intelligencer article.
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   Bill Gates' house

   The house is noted for its design and the technology it incorporates. ... Virtual tour of Bill Gates' house
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   Domestic robot

   In 2006, Bill Gates wrote an article titled "A Robot in Every Home" discussing the significant potential for robots (including domestic robotis) being accepted by society.
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   History of Microsoft

   In 1985, IBM requested that Microsoft write a new operating system for their computers called the OS/2; Microsoft wrote the operating system, but also continued to sell their own version of it, which was in direct competition with the OS/2. ... After reading the January 1, 1975 issue of Popular Electronics that demonstrated the Altair 8800, Bill Gates called the creators of the new microcomputer, MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems), offering to demonstrate an implementation of the BASIC programming language for the system.
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   William H. Gates, Sr.

   They had three children: Kristianne, Bill, and Libby. ... William H. Gates, Sr.
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   Gates (surname)

   Bill Gates (born 1955), Chairman of Microsoft ... Katharine Gates, American writer
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    Bill Gates's house

    The house is noted for its design and the technology it incorporates. ... Virtual tour of Bill Gates' house

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