\n\tThis image was inspired by a 1978 photo in which the original 11 Microsoft employees got together for a company portrait. A copy of the original portrait, as well as some interesting details about the photo, can be found in a 2011 Business Insider article.
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\n\tIn the early days, when Microsoft was based in New Mexico, Bill Gates loved fast cars and racked up several speeding tickets culminating in an arrest. This image was inspired by Bill’s infamous mug shot. A copy of the original picture can be found over in the Mug Shots section of The Smoking Gun.
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\n\tThis image was inspired by a picture of Bill Gates posing for promotional photos for Microsoft Windows. A copy of the original photo can be found on the DailyTech site.
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\n\tIn another promotional photo, Bill Gates holds a Microsoft Windows 5.25-inch floppy disk. A copy of the original photo can be found on the BusinessWeek site.
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\n\tThis image was inspired by Bill Gates’s appearance on the April 16, 1984 cover of Time magazine. You can see the original on the Time Magazine site.
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\n\tThis image was inspired by a Coke commercial from the mid \u201890s, in which Bill Gates, who is working late in a Microsoft office building, goes to get a drink from a Coke machine and realizes that he doesn’t have any change. You can watch the Coke commercial on YouTube.
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\n\tThis image comes from a video of Bill Gates and Chris Capossela, who was demonstrating Windows 98’s support for Plug and Play at the 1998 Comdex show, when all of a sudden the system encountered a Blue Screen of Death, leaving both men speechless for several moments before the event becomes humorous. You can see a recording of the event on YouTube.
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My first computer was a Kaypro 16 \"luggable\" running MS-DOS 2.11 which I obtained while studying computer science in 1986. After two years, I discovered that I had a knack for writing documentation and shifted my focus over to technical writing.
