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This week America's richest and most famous computer nerd will unveil his latest venture: an office software system that could connect computers, phones, copiers, fax machines and printers into a seamless digital web, thus permitting them to exchange information and circulate documents electronically. The system -- based on Microsoft's wildly successful Windows software -- could lead to a new wave of advanced office machines that would, for example, allow someone to write a memo and instantly send it to the computer screens of his staff members, the photocopier down the hall, his boss's printer, and the fax machines...
...anyone can pull it off, however, it may be Bill Gates. A Harvard dropout who parlayed a single computer program into a software empire, Gates, 37, is the most powerful -- and most feared -- person in the industry. With a personal net worth of $7 billion, he is the richest self-made billionaire in history and was, until recently, the most eligible bachelor in America (last month he became engaged to Melinda French, 28, a midlevel executive in charge of Microsoft's desktop-publishing business). Though Gates is famous for his lack of pretension, his habit of flying in coach class...
...perception of a lot of members is that here's Harvard, the richest University in the world, getting 90 percent of going wages and still using non-union labor," says Ehrlich...
...Khan, Prince Karim, retains the reverence that goes with his heritage: he is the spiritual leader of the 15 million Ismaili Muslims, who regard him as a direct descendant of the prophet Muhammad. But even though Prince Karim has long been ranked as one of the world's richest men, his financial clout suddenly seems less princely: last week a group of his banks and creditors seized the crown jewel of his business empire, the Ciga hotel chain, which runs some of Europe's most palatial lodgings...
...frozen on the Milan stock exchange last week as the hotel company reported losses of $173 million for 1992. Yet because he deftly avoided putting any of his private fortune of about $1.4 billion on the line to bail out Ciga, Prince Karim remains one of the world's richest men. He may thus become the first in his line to be in financial trouble despite being worth his weight in diamonds...