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Redefining Sustainable Development: Gates

Watch Bill Gates' First Encounter With a Computer [video]

TNW Microsoft • Drew Olanoff • January 10, 2012

We all know how successful Bill Gates has become through his work at Microsoft, but not many of us know the stories about his first interaction with a computer. A…

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