Rare Photos of Bill Gates : Walk through his life

Young CEO

Bill Gates, about 27, in his Microsoft office in 1982.

Bill Gates: The Early Years Geniuses at Work

Gates watches his friend and future Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen typing on a teletype terminal at the Lakeside School in Seattle in 1968. Gates was 13 when he entered the exclusive prep school, which was around the time this photo was taken.

  

Slacker?

Much of the computer equipment at Lakeside was bought with proceeds from a rummage sale organized by the students' mothers. Gates was drawn to programming the machines and was excused from math classes to pursue his interest.

Graduate

Gates during Commencement at the Lakeside School in 1973.

 

Arrested

In 1977, Gates was arrested by New Mexico police for speeding.

Partners

Gates and Allen in Microsoft's offices in 1982. Started initially in New Mexico, the company moved to Bellevue, Wash., in January 1979.

 

The Staff

The early team at Microsoft paused for a group portrait in 1978. Gates is at the bottom left.

 

Lots of Memory

Gates demonstrates the memory power of a CD in 1987.

Bill Introducing Microsoft

 

Bill's Lexus

Bill and Melinda Gates

 

Gates' 40,000 sq. ft. "ecology house" in Seattle - 7 years to built at estimated cost of $97 million (1998)

 

Bill Gates gets knighthood from Queen Elizabeth (2005)

 

Bill Gates playing video games at CES (2005)

 

Bill Gates hands over beta 2 of Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Longhorn Server at WinHEC 2006 in Seattle (2006)

Bill Gates launches Windows Vista and Office 2007 at New York's Times Square (2007

Bill Gates and his wife Melinda cuddle Samuel Baltazar (right) and Ires Mahnica during a visit to the Manhica Health Research Centre