United States v. Microsoft deposition

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1. 1998

   Pie in the face in Brussels

   News footage of Gates being hit with a cream pie by Belgian prankster Noël Godin’s group as he arrived for a meeting with about 400 Belgian educators, business leaders and officials.

2. 1998

   Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on competition in the software industry

   Gates’s first and only congressional appearance of the antitrust era: a televised Senate Judiciary hearing chaired by Orrin Hatch in which he argued the software industry needed no new regulation while Netscape’s Jim Barksdale and Sun’s Scott McNealy accused Microsoft of abusing its Windows monopoly.

3. 1998

   Charlie Rose

   Gates discusses standards of fair competition in the technology marketplace, responding to the previous day’s Senate Judiciary hearing on the Microsoft antitrust fight.

4. 1998

   Windows 98 ‘blue screen’ demo at Comdex Spring

   The famous moment when a Windows 98 beta demonstration crashed to a Blue Screen of Death on stage as assistant Chris Capossela plugged in a scanner to show Plug and Play; Gates quipped, ‘That must be why we’re not shipping Windows 98 yet.’

5. 1998

   Buffett & Gates on success

   Gates and Warren Buffett field questions from University of Washington business students about success, luck, risk and their careers, in the session that became Fortune’s ‘The Bill & Warren Show’ and the PBS special ‘Buffett & Gates Go Back to School’.

6. 1998

   Microsoft eXtreme Spring 1998 (video welcome)

   A VHS of Microsoft’s ‘eXtreme’ consumer roadshow previewing Windows 98, Outlook 98 and other products; according to the archive description the show opens with a welcome from Gates.

7. 1998

   United States v. Microsoft deposition

   Roughly 20 hours of videotape of Gates being questioned by government lawyer David Boies in a Redmond conference room.

8. 1998

   Comdex Fall 1998 keynote (excerpts)

   Excerpts of Gates’s Fall Comdex 1998 keynote, where he unveiled ClearType, survive in two Computer Chronicles episodes. The keynote came four weeks into the antitrust trial and days before the government played his deposition tapes in court.

9. 1998

   User-group presentation at Comdex (Office 2000 and more)

   A 76-minute tape of Gates addressing an Association of PC User Groups audience at Comdex on November 15, 1998, demonstrating Office 2000 and other forthcoming products, with a montage of show-floor interviews appended.

10. 1999

    Comdex Fall 1999 keynote

    Gates’s full Fall Comdex 1999 keynote, covering Windows 2000 Server clustering and remote management, Windows CE devices and Pocket PCs, and the new MSN start page.

11. 2000

    Xbox announced at the Game Developers Conference (report)

    Gates’s GDC keynote in which he formally announced the Xbox, showing an early prototype and hardware demos; this is television coverage of the announcement rather than a complete keynote recording.

12. 2001

    Xbox unveiled at CES with The Rock

    The moment Gates brought wrestler Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson on stage at his CES keynote to unveil the final Xbox design, ten months before the console’s launch.

13. 2001

    Earthquake interrupts a Gates speech in Seattle

    Footage of the magnitude-6.8 Nisqually earthquake striking during a Gates speech at a Microsoft event in Seattle on February 28, 2001; the audience flees as the chandeliers sway.