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NEW YORK – Microsoft co-founder Apostle comedienne defends his newborn aggregation in Sunday's program of "60 Minutes," locution it was meant as an important slice of profession story and not as punish against Bill Gates.

In an discourse with Lesley Stahl of "60 Minutes," Allen, 58, said he desired to verify that story the artefact it happened. He said he hopes people wager and respect that.

In the book, comedienne writes most arduous eld employed with enterpriser during the primeval eld of Microsoft Corp. He recounts overhearing enterpriser conversation to current CEO Steve Ballmer most reducing Allen's wager in the consort — patch comedienne was undergoing cancer communication in 1982. comedienne left Microsoft in 1983.

"Unable to stand it some longer, I separate in on them and shouted, `This is unbelievable! It shows your true character, erst and for all.' I was speaking to both of them, but opened straightforward at Bill," writes comedienne in an select of the aggregation publicised online terminal month by Vanity Fair magazine.

But for all the disagreeable pictures he paints of Gates, comedienne reveals added side, too, in the "60 Minutes" interview. Gates, who today focuses on philanthropy, comforted comedienne when he got cancer a ordinal time in 2009. Says Allen: "There's a stick there that can't be denied."

CBS Corp. posted a recording select of that discourse on its website and prefabricated other portions acquirable in a press release.

Allen told Stahl the timing of the aggregation "had nothing to do with the some wonderful things Bill has done. ... The timing was because I desired to wager if I could do it and hopefully be aware to wager it published."

Allen was diagnosed in the primeval 1980s with Hodgkin's lymphoma, which he beat. In 2009 he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and underwent chemotherapy. Tests in September 2010 showed he was free of cancer.

Allen's book, "Idea Man," hits stores Tuesday. The "60 Minutes" program airs at 7 p.m. on Sunday.

In constituent to conversation most his memoir, the multibillionaire also lets cameras inside his duty and his home, and his collections that range from the guitar Jimi Hendrix played at Woodstock to vintage struggle planes and a 300-foot watercraft with its possess submarine.

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