June 15, 2006 4:17 PM PDT
But it's as a hard-nose businessman, not a socialite, that Gates made his name--and spent a considerable amount of time addressing charges of antitrust violations. Here, in a photo from March 1998, he appeared before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on market power and structural change in the software industry, along with fellow high-tech execs Scott McNealy (center, CEO of Sun Microsystems) and Jim Barksdale (right, CEO of the soon-to-be-defunct Netscape Communications).
Photo by Douglas Graham/Congressional Quarterly
