Happy birthday wishes are in order for Bill Gates, who turns 60 tomorrow.
We have assembled a collection of photos of the Microsoft founder and world’s richest man on the eve of the big day. You can see them here.
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A year into his tenure, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has now joined both of his predecessors, Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates, in achieving the dubious distinction of issuing spectacularly unlikely predictions.
Is doing this kind of thing on some sort of Microsoft executive checklist?
Nadella, as you may have heard last week, was asked by an ABC News interviewer to name “a technology that we rely on today that will not be around a decade from now?”
Nadella’s reply: “Fountain pens.”
The interviewer held up her garden-variety pen and asked, “No more of these?”
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Oh, sure, he’s not in the news quite as often as when he was running Microsoft day to day, but Bill Gates – richest man in the world – remains one of the most famous people on the planet.
Yet nearly 1 in 5 adult Internet users were unable to identify Gates as the man pictured above, despite the multiple-choice format, according to a “Web IQ” quiz of 1,006 people conducted by PewResearch.
I would have thought the question not worth asking. I was wrong.
By the way, if you’d like to take the quiz yourself, you can find it here.
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