This Week in Tech 149

Bill Gates - Not Evil

Hosted by Leo Laporte

A Bill Gates farewell review from MITS to DOS to Windows, chair jumping, a Ballmer future, and more.

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Category: News

A Bill Gates farewell review from MITS to DOS to Windows, chair jumping, a Ballmer future, and more.

Bill Gates departs Microsoft (2008 CES farewell video)
Dvorak: No More Odes to Bill Gates, Please!
Google's Lunar X Prize
Ballmer likes developers
Dvorak again (MarketWatch): Microsoft without Gates
Bill's 1994 "Information at your Fingertips" Comdex speech
Bill the competitor: Jumping over chair during Connie Chung interview or playing ping pong.
Bill Machrone and Esther Dyson on Charlie Rose during Windows 95/MSN launch (26:00-43:00).
Pournelle: Gates had personally called about the "illegal copy of DOS now trashing your hard disk" issue.
Altair BASIC
Gates' 1976 "Stop stealing my code" letter to to Homebrew Computer Club.
Gates' first business card.
Ballmer is really more of a salesman.
Seymour Rubinstein, software pioneer.

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