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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.

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2001
Xbox unveiled at CES with The Rock
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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.
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.
2001
Charlie Rose
Gates talks to Charlie Rose about Windows XP, launched that day in New York, and the forthcoming Xbox.
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.
2002
Charlie Rose
Gates discusses the court’s approval of Microsoft’s antitrust settlement and demonstrates the new Tablet PC, launched that day.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2006
Microsoft Research 15th anniversary message
A short video in which Gates reflects on the first 15 years of Microsoft Research and its future.
2006
Charlie Rose
An hour with Gates on his coming move to full-time philanthropy, global health priorities and what he expects to do at the foundation after Microsoft.