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Saturday, June 28, 2008 --- 54 days ago http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/06/28/the-day-bill-gates-didnt-call-me
 This one is for Bill Gates. He was 27 when I first met him. It was 1983 and he was in New York hustling a new laptop (the Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100) that came with Microsoft software in ROM. I remember him rocking back and forth, as if to contain his impatience, when asked if there was an UNDO key. In those days, before Microsoft became a software colossus, he or Steve Ballmer would stop by my office every once in a while to talk about their plans for the company. Later I would see another side of him through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. But the Bill Gates I remember best is the one I spent two uncomfortable hours with in 1995, in the early days of his antitrust problems. We were in his Redmond office with Dave Jackson, then Time Magazine’s San Francisco bureau chief, conducting what was supposed to be the final interview for a Time cover story ( Master of the Universe ). It was not going well. And it reached a low point when, in my memory, the chairman of Microsoft called me a communist. Later, reading the transcript, I realized he didn’t really say that — although he was pretty feisty. To my editors’ credit, they printed the juiciest parts of the interview — including a brief mention of Apple ( AAPL ) — as a sidebar to the cover. In honor of Gates’ last days at Microsoft ( MSFT ), it’s pasted below: INTERVIEW By Philip Elmer-DeWitt, David S. Jackson [Redmond, Wash., June 5, 1995] Bill Gates displayed his well-known ... |
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