Charlie Rose with Warren Buffett, Bill and Melinda Gates

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1. 2001

   Charlie Rose

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

2. 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.

3. 2002

   Charlie Rose

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 2006

   Microsoft Research 15th anniversary message

   A short video in which Gates reflects on the first 15 years of Microsoft Research and its future.

10. 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.

11. 2007

    RSA Conference keynote with Craig Mundie

    An attendee’s audio recording of Gates’s last RSA Conference keynote, delivered with Craig Mundie, covering Microsoft’s security architecture, network access control, rights management and digital identity, with closing thanks to Gates ahead of his move to philanthropy.

12. 2007

    Joint interview with Steve Jobs at D5

    The only extended joint interview Gates and Steve Jobs ever gave: opening with the 1997 Macworld satellite clip, they trade credit for each other’s contributions, Gates says ‘I’d give a lot to have Steve’s taste’, they disagree about tablets versus phones, and Jobs closes by quoting the Beatles’ ‘Two of Us’.

13. 2007

    Microsoft Surface introduction

    A short clip of Gates presenting Microsoft Surface, the table-sized multitouch computer unveiled on May 30, 2007, the same day as the D5 joint interview with Steve Jobs.