Bill Gates trivia
Bill Gates Mini Quiz
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Tech pioneer Bill Gates famously dropped out of Harvard University to co-found what software giant?
Gates and Paul Allen originally formed a venture called Traf-O-Data to analyze traffic tapes before successfully launching Microsoft in 1975.
Bill Gates secured Microsoft's early success by licensing an operating system to what hardware giant?
Microsoft did not actually own the software they licensed to IBM; they bought the rights to 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products for fifty thousand dollars.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates later admitted that requiring users to press what keyboard shortcut was a mistake?
The shortcut was originally designed by David Bradley at IBM to restart the computer without clearing memory, intended only for internal testing.
Microsoft boss Bill Gates famously smiled for a 1977 police mugshot after committing what minor offense?
Gates was arrested in Albuquerque for driving without a license and speeding, and the silhouette of this mugshot was later used as an icon in Outlook 2010.