<span style="color: lightblue">Actually, he isn't. He's an honourary member of the Order of the British Empire, meaning that he doesn't get the title 'Sir'. He also isn't counted in the number of Knights in the order.
Which means that he is still beaten by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, KBE (who was also knighted before Bill Gates).

A non british can be knighted? That's news to me. Maybe I have a chance to be knighted too then? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

lol, she didnt even know who Paul McCartney was [img]tongue.gif[/img]

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He was knighted alright, but he's definitely not Sir Bill, he's not British, so the "Sir" part is off limits for him.

Like he really gives a damn. :D </font>[/QUOTE]LOL, Great Minds Think alike and all that... I was about to post the same thing when I saw you'd done it. :D In our news they noted that he can add some alphabet soup type thing to the end of his name to indicate he has been knighted but he cannot be 'Sir' since he's not British.

Order of the British Empire, OBE for short.

Bill Gates OBE?
OBE Bill Gates?

Hehe... One Big Evil.

hehe, yeah I saw that, and his name was the only one the Queen remembered [img]tongue.gif[/img] </font>[/QUOTE]Bet she has a windows based PC...

<span style="color: lightblue">As much as I agree with the sentiment, it's KBE :(

Nope, its OBE.

Whoever told you that is wrong. ;)