In 1995, he released Windows 95 and became the world's richest ... He stepped down as Microsoft CEO to focus on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It has given away $41.3 billion to charity.

GeekWire revisited Bill Gates’ classic book, The Road Ahead, and found parallels to the AI revolution that the world is experiencing today.

From its groundbreaking beginnings under co-founder Bill Gates to its reinvention ... Subsequent versions, such as Windows 3.0 (1990) and Windows 95 (1995), solidified Microsoft’s dominance.

Bill Gates is the world's second richest person ... 30 years after its release. And when Windows 95 launched in 1995, Gates became the world's richest man, remaining there until Warren Buffett ...