Xbox announced at the Game Developers Conference (report)

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1. 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’.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 2001

    ‘Playday’ internal comedy video

    A leaked internal Microsoft video in which Gates and Ballmer parody ‘A Night at the Roxbury’, bobbing their heads to ‘What Is Love’ in a car and a nightclub; made for a company event and later widely circulated online.

11. 2001

    Charlie Rose

    Gates talks to Charlie Rose about Windows XP, launched that day in New York, and the forthcoming Xbox.

12. 2001

    Antitrust settlement press conference (clips)

    TechTV clips of the news conference at which Gates and Ballmer announced Microsoft’s proposed settlement with the Justice Department, with Gates saying the company would accept ‘new responsibilities’ and reporters asking how much more it would concede to the holdout states.

13. 2002

    Charlie Rose

    Gates discusses the court’s approval of Microsoft’s antitrust settlement and demonstrates the new Tablet PC, launched that day.