Steve Ballmer on Microsoft’s first 50 years, its OpenAI deal, and why he’s still its biggest investor
I have great pride, and great joy, that the thing that we built has continued to flourish,” former Microsoft CEO Steve ...
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Bill Gates’ net worth in 2025
Bill Gates’ net ... software for their new IBM Personal Computer. Eventually, Microsoft struck a deal with Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products to create PC DOS (IBM’s then-operating ...
Missing Link: Homebrew Computer Club, nucleus of the digital revolution
In March 1975, a few technology tinkerers meet in a garage in Silicon Valley and found a computer club. Apple would not have ...
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Microsoft alums were surprised by the sheer scale of its success, new oral history project shows
[Editor’s Note: Microsoft @ 50 is a year-long GeekWire project exploring the tech giant’s past, present, and future, recognizing its 50th anniversary in 2025. Learn more and register here for ...
Melinda French Gates says she took a job at a 'little company' called Microsoft after her hiring manager at IBM told her to go for it
French Gates joined Microsoft in 1987 as a product manager. That was where she met her former husband, Bill Gates.
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Melinda French Gates says she took a job at a 'little company' called Microsoft after her hiring manager at IBM told her to go for it
Melinda French Gates' life may have been very different if not for a conversation she had with an IBM hiring manager in ... where she met her now ex-husband, Bill Gates. The couple married in ...