Bill Gates with the Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico. Gates never returned to Harvard to complete his studies. Microsoft's Altair BASIC was popular with computer hobbyists, but Gates discovered that a pre-market copy had leaked into the community and was being widely copied and distributed. In February 1976, Gates wrote an Open Letter to Hobbyists in the MITS newsletter in which he asserted that more than 90 percent of the users of Microsoft Altair BASIC had not paid Microsoft for it and by doing so the Altair "hobby market" was in danger of eliminating the incentive for
Charlie Rose 2009. In May 2010, Charlie Rose delivered the commencement address at North Carolina State University. On November 15, 2011, it was announced that Rose would return to CBS to help anchor "CBS This Morning," replacing "The Early Show," commencing January 9, 2012, along with co-anchors Gayle King and Erica Hill. Rose has interviewed many celebrities, institutional leaders, and political figures, including Donald Trump (1992); Bill Gates (1996); Steve Jobs (1996); Sean Penn (2008 & 2016), Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (2013), for which he won a second Peabody Award: U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle (2012); U.S. business magnate