Image Gallery: Bill Gates Now . . . and Then

Editor's note: This image gallery accompanies our package, "Bill Gates Moves On." Click through to that page for additional stories about the upcoming retirement of Gates from his day-to-day role at Microsoft.

Bill Gates in 1987 with Steve Ballmer and Jon Shirley, who was Microsoft's president and chief operating officer until 1990.

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Image gallery: Revitalizing an old notebook on the cheap

All it takes is a couple hours and about $125 to breathe new life into an old laptop.

Image gallery: Revitalizing an old notebook on the cheap

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