Bill Gates Retires
Born William Henry Gates III, better known as Bill Gates, the Microsoft mogul has always been down-to-earth and geeky. Though large parts of the computer-using world may have issues with some of Microsoft’s practices, iterations of buggy software, major anti-trust problems, or they’re just die-hard fans of some other company, we all owe something to [...]
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