Bill Gates discusses his sa国际传媒官网网页入口 years in new memoir
FORTHCOMING BOOK BY BILL GATES
Consider including this question in a New Mexico-centric trivia contest: What New Mexico city saw the start of a software company that eventually became an industry giant?
The answer? sa国际传媒官网网页入口. The company? Microsoft.
In a memoir set for release Tuesday, Feb. 4, Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, discusses his childhood, his family, his first friendships, his dropping out of Harvard 鈥� and his company鈥檚 early years in the Duke City.
Gates鈥� book is titled 鈥淪ource Code/>; My Beginnings.鈥�
Gates and his childhood friend Paul Allen formed Micro-Soft in 1975 in sa国际传媒官网网页入口; the hyphen in the name was dropped after several years.
Gates writes that early on Allen turned over to him the job of running Micro-Soft.
Gates and Allen picked sa国际传媒官网网页入口 as the company鈥檚 headquarters to be close to MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems), its first business client. MITS was the manufacturer of the Altair 8800 personal computer.
Gates references the places where he dined (mostly Furr鈥檚 Cafeteria), the neighborhood for his late-night walks (around Kirtland Air Force Base), and his residence (an apartment on Alvarado SE).
Gates lived in sa国际传媒官网网页入口 for about four years. He and Allen decided to moved Microsoft鈥檚 headquarters to Seattle, where the two men were from. Gates explained why: 鈥淲ith Microsoft no longer dependent on MITS and Paul and I having trouble hiring programmers in sa国际传媒官网网页入口, in the spring of 1978, I wrote a memo for our 10 or so employees, listing possible options for Microsoft鈥檚 permanent home.鈥�
Seattle won out over sa国际传媒官网网页入口, Dallas-Fort Worth and Silicon Valley.
The company moved to the Pacific Northwest in early 1979.
The back cover of an uncorrected bound proof of the book says the memoir 鈥渢ells this, his own story, for the first time: wise, warm, revealing, it鈥檚 a fascinating portrait of an American life.鈥�
In the book鈥檚 acknowledgements, Gates writes, 鈥淩evisiting the early part of my life and sifting through memories took on a life of its own. To my surprise, the more I dug in, the more I remembered. I鈥檓 committed to continuing on this path and plan to write another memoir focused on my years running Microsoft and a third one on this current part of my life and my work with the Gates Foundation.鈥�
AT BOOKS ON THE BOSQUE
Samantha Nagel will discuss the book 鈥淚nto the Wilderness: Tales of Belonging鈥� at 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, at Books on the Bosque. Nagel edited the book, which is an anthology of writings by New Mexico authors exploring themes of belonging and rewilding.
The bookstore is located at 6261 Riverside Plaza Lane NW.
AT GERONIMO BOOKS
Santa Fe鈥檚 Joanne Brown will read from her poetry collection 鈥淚ndependence Day鈥� and talk about her writing with poet-artist Jane Shoenfeld. The event is at 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, at Geronimo鈥檚 Books, 3018 Cielo Court, Suite D, Santa Fe.
Brown said that many of her poems reflect the impact of 1950s McCarthyism on her family and left-leaning friends, many of whom were blacklisted by the government.
The new administration鈥檚 focus on loyalty to the president, spreading fear of 鈥渢he enemy within鈥� and plans for 鈥渕ass deportations make these poems relatable and relevant today,鈥� Brown notes.
