Bill Gates Posing

[rksprst]

Bill Gates posing: +

Teen Beat Photospread, 1983

 

 

[DWD]

Bill Gates posing:  + 

Teen Beat Photospread, 1983

 

Snopes:

These images are actually publicity photos taken of the then 30-year-old Bill Gates coincident with the initial release of Microsoft Windows in 1985. The Corbis photo archive identifies their depiction thusly: "Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, reclines on his desk in his office soon after the release of Windows 1.0. 1985 Bellevue, Washington, USA."

 

That said, it does look like a Mac.

[TCH-Dick]

That photo was taken by Deborah Feingold in 1985 and was not in Teen Beat.

And yes that appears to be a Mac behind him. Which is really not a big deal considering the history between Bill gates and Steve Jobs.

 

DA: How was your relationship with Apple different from what it had been with IBM and other makers of compatibles?

 

BG: The relationship between Microsoft and Apple can be divided into a couple of phases. In the early days when I did software for the Apple II, they were quite small and I worked with their Development Group. We wrote a lot of applications that ran on the Apple II. The SoftCard helped the Apple II a great deal. Decathlon Software. Multiplan software. It was a good relationship. But mostly, we were selling to their customers.

 

The really unique thing we got into was when Steve Jobs came up and talked about what he was doing with the Macintosh. He solicited us to write a family of applications for that machine. And because of our background in looking at what Xerox had done with graphics interface, we were very excited about this design.

If anyone is interested you can read the rest here.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/csr/comphist/gates.htm

[Nicholas Naime]

Positive. It's a Mac.