An upgrade had been in the works courtesy of Bill Gates , the Microsoft chairman , who had already leveraged the power of the information technology industry in creating the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , with its tens of billions of dollars in assets from him and , more recently , from the investor Warren E. Buffett .
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