Bill Gates´s got Apple shares ???

[DaveTheGrey]

Is it true that Bill Gates got 51% of the apple shares ???
A friend of mine told me that...
hope not

Dave

[janey]

HELL NO! and i beleive there was a former thread about this...but...
Bill Gates and Microsoft back in 1997, in an effort to help Apple, bought $150 million in Apple stock. Right now I dont think anyone has more than 10% of the company, but I may be wrong. Bill Gates might not even own any shares of Apple :p

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=30188

[MisterMe]

HELL NO! and i beleive there was a former thread about this...but...
Bill Gates and Microsoft back in 1997, in an effort to help Apple, bought $150 million in Apple stock. Right now I dont think anyone has more than 10% of the company, but I may be wrong. Bill Gates might not even own any shares of Apple :p

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=30188Microsoft, not Bill Gates, bought $150 million in non-voting Apple stock. It was not to help Apple, but to stave-off a lawsuit that M$ would have lost, but taken Apple an eternity to win. M$ the stock at a profit.

[janey]

Microsoft, not Bill Gates, bought $150 million in non-voting Apple stock. It was not to help Apple, but to stave-off a lawsuit that M$ would have lost, but taken Apple an eternity to win. M$ the stock at a profit.
it was partially to help Apple as well.

hmm: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=AAPL