Ed Bott

… I would have bought the negatives for this photo shoot and burned them:

Bill Gates Strikes a Pose

Reportedly, these were for a Teen Beat photo spread, 1983. 

Update: J-Walk checked with Snopes, which has the actual provenance of these pics:

Verdict: Real photos; inaccurate description.

These images are actually publicity photos taken of the then 30-year-old Bill Gates coincident with the initial release of Microsoft Windows in 1985. The Corbis photo archive identifies their depiction thusly: “Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, reclines on his desk in his office soon after the release of Windows 1.0. 1985 Bellevue, Washington, USA.”

(Via Boing Boing.)