New York, June 8 (DPA) Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates finally got his Harvard degree, more than 30 years after dropping out of the prestigious university to enter the software business and become the richest man in the world.

‘We recognize the most illustrious member of the Harvard College class of 1977 never to have graduated from Harvard,’ said Harvard University Provost Steven Hyman, Thursday in granting Gates the honorary law degree.

Replying in the official graduation address, Gates said, ‘I did the best of everyone who failed.’

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