Antitrust settlement press conference (clips)

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1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 2001

   Charlie Rose

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

7. 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.

8. 2002

   Charlie Rose

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

9. 2004

   Charlie Rose

   Gates on the need for computer science in higher education and the future of Microsoft, taped as he finished a five-campus tour (Illinois, Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Harvard, Cornell) aimed at reviving student interest in computer science.

10. 2005

    Microsoft and academia: a dialogue with Maria Klawe

    A 77-minute on-stage conversation between Gates and Princeton engineering dean Maria Klawe at the 2005 Faculty Summit about computer-science research, emerging technologies and the problems computing might help solve.

11. 2005

    A conversation with Bill Gates at Princeton

    Gates’s October 14, 2005 visit to Princeton, part of a fall campus tour, in which he discussed the changing role of computer technology, took student questions and received the Crystal Tiger award for global leadership.

12. 2006

    Charlie Rose with Warren Buffett, Bill and Melinda Gates

    Taped on the day Warren Buffett announced at the New York Public Library that he would give the bulk of his fortune, about $31 billion, to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the three discuss the decision and what the foundation will do with it.

13. 2006

    Charlie Rose with Warren Buffett, Bill and Melinda Gates (second conversation)

    A follow-up hour with Buffett and the Gateses on Buffett’s $31 billion gift and the long friendship behind it.