In the 12 months ending 2026-07-09, members of Congress disclosed more trades in MSFT than in any other stock — 12 separate buy or sell disclosures under the STOCK Act.

Bill Gates has a published mathematics paper. As a Harvard undergraduate he co-wrote “Bounds for Sorting by Prefix Reversal” (1979) on the “pancake sorting” problem with professor Christos Papadimitriou — and the bound he proved stood as the best known for roughly 30 years.

Microsoft was a Windows-and-Office company until Satya Nadella bet it on the cloud in 2014. Azure and cloud services now drive its growth far more than desktop software ever did.

One of Bill Gates’s own coding credits is DONKEY.BAS, a crude driving game he co-wrote in 1981 (with Neil Konzen) to ship with the first IBM PC. Apple’s Macintosh team later singled it out as an embarrassment.