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Photos: 33 Years of Bill Gates

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• In this 1978 photo provided by Microsoft, 11 of the dozen or so people who started Microsoft Corp. are photographed in Albuquerque, N.M., just prior to moving the company to the Seattle area. Shown, top row from left, are: Steve Wood, Bob Wallace and Jim Lane; second row, Bob O'Rear, Bob Greenberg, March McDonald and Gordon Letwin; and front row, Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood and Paul Allen.
• In this 1984 file photo, Bill Gates, founder and chairman of Microsoft Corp., is shown. Microsoft's iconic frontman is finally giving up his full-time gig at the company to devote more time to world health charity work.
• May 22, 1990: Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates introduces the company's Windows software in New York.
• Aug. 24, 1995: Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates sits on stage during a video portion of the Windows 95 Launch Event on the company's campus in Redmond, Wash.
• March 3, 1998: Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates testifies on Capitol Hill before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he came under intense questioning at the hearing as he was asked repeatedly whether his company restricted Internet businesses from promoting products of rival Netscape Communications Corp.
• Nov. 1, 2005: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates shakes hands with Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie at a Microsoft announcement in San Francisco.
• June 15, 2006: Bill Gates, right, looks at Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer after Gates announced that he will transition from day-to-day responsibilities at the company he co-founded to concentrate on the charitable work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
• May 6, 2007: Billionaire investor Warren Buffett, left, and Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates play table tennis at the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting in Omaha, Neb.
• Jan. 6, 2008: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates pauses during his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
• Jan. 6, 2008: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates walks offstage after his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
• April 2008: Microsoft's original employees get back together to reshoot the famous 1978 photo. Front row (left to right): Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Miriam Lubow (who missed being in the original photo because of a snowstorm), Marla Wood and Paul Allen. Back row: Bob O'Rear, Steve Wood, Bob Greenberg, Marc McDonald, Gordon Letwin and Jim Lane. Not pictured is Bob Wallace, who died in 2002.

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