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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’.

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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.
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.
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’.
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.
2007
Harvard commencement address
Thirty-two years after dropping out, Gates returned to receive an honorary degree and told the Class of 2007 that ‘reducing inequity is the highest human achievement’, recounting how he learned of the millions of children dying of preventable diseases and urging graduates to take on the world’s deepest inequities.
2007
‘Inside the office of the future’ with Ali Velshi
Gates gives CNN’s Ali Velshi a tour of Microsoft’s ‘office of the future’ prototypes, in a short CNN Money segment.
2008
Final CES keynote
Gates’s eleventh and last CES keynote, in which he reviewed the ‘digital decade’, demonstrated Windows and Xbox products with Robbie Bach, and opened with the ‘Bill’s Last Day’ spoof video; only highlight clips are catalogued here (the spoof is a separate entry).
2008
‘Bill’s Last Day’ spoof video
The comic short imagining Gates’s last day at Microsoft, with cameos by Steve Ballmer, Robbie Bach, Jay-Z, Bono, George Clooney, Steven Spielberg, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and others as Gates auditions for a post-Microsoft life.
2008
Farewell event on his last full-time day
Gates’s send-off before more than 800 employees, former colleagues and family, webcast to cafeterias and offices worldwide: Ballmer presented a scrapbook and, in tears, said ‘Bill gave us that opportunity’; Gates, also tearful, said ‘my life’s work really is about software and working with incredible people’.