The Bill Gates FAQ

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In a Q&A on the Microsoft Web site, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates tackled a handful of questions that Microsoft says are the ones he is most commonly asked.

In the three-page Word document posted this week, Gates opines on his happiest moments at Microsoft (getting BASIC to run on the Altair in 1976 and the IBM PC launch in 1981), the prospect for computers to really think on their own (not in the next 20 years), the role of fate or luck in his success ("immense") and the secrets to his success.