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OCCUPATION: Microsoft chairman; philanthropist...
THOUGHTS ON BEING BILL GATES: "My life has been the same since I started Microsoft. I work hard and think about the next challenge...
...many seniors are complaining: we've got almost nothing, but the world's richest university still wants some of it. The Senior Gift is like Mr. Universe trying to eat your grandmother's vitamins. It's like a food drive for Microsoft executives. It just doesn't make sense...
Before I do, though, let's briefly digress to try to understand how this happened. After Microsoft introduced Windows 98, it became the practice to embed all kinds of Net functionality into programs. For instance, live links to websites suddenly became commonplace in e-mail; if you were reading a message, you had only to click on the blue text to launch your browser automatically and go to the website. This was a good thing; it made life easier. But for it to work, Windows needed to know how to get to the Internet on your computer. That...
...company is a newcomer to the field--it was founded in February of last year but already boasts employees who were former Netscape and Microsoft rivals...