Forty students from around the world got to pitch their software projects to Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates on Tuesday as part of a worldwide software development challenge.
Gates as well as Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft, asked questions about and tried out software innovations from the students, who visited Microsoft"s Redmond, Washington, headquarters from Egypt, Japan, France, Poland, Korea, the U.S. and the U.K.
The Imagine Cup is Microsoft"s worldwide software design competition for students. This year it challenged participating teams to build a product that can enable better education for everyone. It has attracted 100,000 students in 100 countries. The final competition will happen in Korea in August and Tuesday"s event was an opportunity for some of the leading teams to present their ideas to Gates on Microsoft"s campus.