Together at last / Tech titans Bill Gates and Steve Jobs appear on the same stage for the first time in 20 years at the All Things Digital conference

"For 30 years, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs have dominated the technology industry, often on opposite sides, each legitimately laying claim to many of the innovations that are now commonplace in today's computers.
After all the feuds, the rapprochements and the big business that continues to this day, the two tech titans, now elder statesmen, came together Wednesday night on a public stage for the first time in 20 years.
Gates, the co-founder and chairman of Microsoft Corp., and Jobs, the co-founder and chief executive of Apple Inc., appeared together at the D: All Things Digital conference at the posh Four Seasons resort in this coastal city.
The conversation had the feel of a front-porch reminiscence in a retirement home as each man reflected on the early days of computing. "