Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (R) shakes hands with with Microsoft software company founder Bill Gates as they meet in Rome's Palazzo Chigi on June 23, 2009. Getty Images logo Getty Images 5 months ago

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (R) shakes hands with with Microsoft software company founder Bill Gates as they meet in Rome's Palazzo Chigi on June 23, 2009.

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  5. ROME - NOVEMBER 16: Libyan leader Muammar El-Gheddafi, delivers a speech during the opening of the World Summit for Food Security 2009 organised by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on November 16, 2009 in Rome, Italy. The summit runs from November 16 until November 18 and will see the participation of more than 60 heads of state and government.
  6. Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (C) talks during a news conference at Chigi palace in Rome October 9, 2009. When Italy's Constitutional Court ruled this week that the prime minister was not above the law, invalidating a tailor-made statute granting him immunity from prosecution, Berlusconi's reaction was to attack its members, and President Giorgio Napolitano, as leftists biased against him.
  7. MUNICH, GERMANY - OCTOBER 07: Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation Steve Ballmer addresses the media during a news conference on October 7, 2009 in Munich, Germany. Ballmer talked about the upcoming launch of the new Windows 7 computer operating system.
  8. MUNICH, GERMANY - OCTOBER 07: Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation Steve Ballmer looks on during a news conference on October 7, 2009 in Munich, Germany. Ballmer talked about the upcoming launch of the new Windows 7 computer operating system.
  9. MUNICH, GERMANY - OCTOBER 07: Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation Steve Ballmer looks on during a news conference on October 7, 2009 in Munich, Germany. Ballmer talked about the upcoming launch of the new Windows 7 computer operating system.
  10. MUNICH, GERMANY - OCTOBER 07: Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation Steve Ballmer addresses the media during a news conference on October 7, 2009 in Munich, Germany. Ballmer talked about the upcoming launch of the new Windows 7 computer operating system.
  11. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Microsoft Corporation Steve Ballmer gestures during a news conference to present the new Windows 7 operating system in Munich October 7, 2009. Microsoft's release of its new. Windows 7 operating system is expected to increase demand for personal computers only slightly, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told journalists in Munich on Wednesday. Major new software updates from Microsoft, whose Windows operating system runs about 90 percent of the world's PCs, are in general eagerly awaited by computer makers who hope for a sales boost.
  12. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Microsoft Corporation Steve Ballmer holds a news conference to present the new Windows 7 operating system in Munich October 7, 2009. Microsoft's release of its new Windows 7 operating system is expected to increase demand for personal computers only slightly, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told journalists in Munich on Wednesday. Major new software updates from Microsoft, whose Windows operating system runs about 90 percent of the world's PCs, are in general eagerly awaited by computer makers who hope for a sales boost.
  13. Bill Gates, right, and his wife Melinda speak to students at an appearance at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009.
  14. Microsoft founder Bill Gates (R) cuts a ribbon with chairman of Hillman Foundation Henry Hillman during a dedication ceremony for the Gates Center for Computer Science and the Hillman Center for Future-Generation Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania September 22, 2009.
  15. In this image released by PictureGroup, Bill Gates, left, and his wife Melinda, right, pose with President and Chief Executive Officer of Viacom Philippe Dauman at the "Get Schooled" conference and premiere hosted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Viacom on Tuesday Sept. 8, 2009, in Los Angeles.
  16. Microsoft founder Bill Gates talks to students at an appearance at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009.

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