Microsoft founder Bill Gates plays a game of bridge with Billionaire financier Warren Buffett (L) during the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska May 3, 2009. Reuters Pictures 6 months ago

Microsoft founder Bill Gates plays a game of bridge with Billionaire financier Warren Buffett (L) during the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska May 3, 2009.

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  1. Warren Buffett spent time on the field prior to the Oklahoma Nebraska NCAA college football game, in Lincoln, Neb., Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. Nebraska beat Oklahoma 10-3.
  2. FORT WORTH, TEXAS - NOVEMBER 3: A Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad locomotive sits on the tracks November 3, 2009 in Fort Worth, Texas. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett announced Tuesday his Berkshire Hathaway company plans to purchase 77.4% of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.
  3. FORT WORTH, TEXAS - NOVEMBER 3: A Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad locomotive sits on the tracks November 3, 2009 in Fort Worth, Texas. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett announced Tuesday his Berkshire Hathaway company plans to purchase 77.4% of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.
  4. FORT WORTH, TEXAS - NOVEMBER 3: A Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad locomotive sits on the tracks November 3, 2009 in Fort Worth, Texas. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett announced Tuesday his Berkshire Hathaway company plans to purchase 77.4% of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.
  5. FORT WORTH, TEXAS - NOVEMBER 3: A Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad locomotive sits on the tracks November 3, 2009 in Fort Worth, Texas. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett announced Tuesday his Berkshire Hathaway company plans to purchase 77.4% of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.
  6. Burlington Northern Santa Fe trains make their way through a rail yard in Cicero, Illinois November 3, 2009. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc will pay $26 billion to buy out railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp in what the billionaire investor called a bet on the U.S. economy.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Microsoft founder Bill Gates talks to students at an appearance at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009.
  11. Microsoft founder Bill Gates delivers a speech during a dedication ceremony for the Gates Center for Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania September 22, 2009.
  12. Microsoft founder Bill Gates delivers a speech during a dedication ceremony for the Gates Center for Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania September 22, 2009.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.

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