Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer's partnership at Microsoft began at Harvard, with Gates offering Ballmer a 4% stake to join the company in 1980. They shared similar goals and skipped lectures together, leading to Ballmer's significant role in Microsoft and his eventual wealth.

Bill Gates’ work ethics during Microsoft’s early years secured the company’s position in the tech industry and laid the foundation for Microsoft’s success.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has revealed in an interview that Apple founder Steve Jobs told him to take acid to make Microsoft's products more interesting.

With his 70th birthday looming on this year’s horizon, Microsoft founder Bill Gates looked inward to open a window into the man behind Windows and other seminal software that turned the personal computer into a household staple.

That's where I found Microsoft (MSFT) co-founder Bill Gates to be in a recent chat about his onetime rival, the late Apple (AAPL) co-founder Steve Jobs. "Steve was very different than I was, I mean, in terms of intuitive sense of a good user interface,