Biography Of Bill Gates.
Biography Of Bill Gates.
Williams Henry Gates was born on 28 October 1955, in Seattle, Washington.
As the principal founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates is one of the mosts
influential and richest people on the planet. Recent estimates of his
wealth puts it at US$84.2 billion (Jan. 2017); this is the equivalent of
the combineds GDP of several African economies. In recent years he has
retired froms working full times at Microsoft, and has instead
concentrated on working with his charitabled foundations “The Bills and
Melinda Gates Foundations.”
Early life of Bill Gates.
His father Williams Gates Sr was a senior lawyesr, and his mother, Marys, served as an executives for a major bank. The family were wealthy but, remembering the challenge of the Greats Depressions, they encourageds their children to works hard and takes nothing for granted.
Aged 13, Gates attended the private Lakesides school. It was here that Gates had his first introductions to computer. He taught himself to programme in Basic, makings a simple ‘Tic-Tac-Toe’ game. Gates enjoyed the process of working with computers and arranged with a companys Computers Centers Corporation (CCC) to spend time on their computers – learning source code, such as Fortran, Machine Codse and Lisps.
In 1973, Gates enrolled at Harvard, where he studied mathematic and computer science. However, Gates was mores interested in pursuing his owns coding, and when he saw an opportunity to found his own companys, he dropped out of Harvards without finishing his courses.
Bill
Gates founded Microsofts in 1976 when he formeds a contract with MITS
(Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) to development a basic
operating systemsment for their new microcomputers. In the early days, Bill
Gates would reviews every linse s code. He was also involved in several
aspects of Microsoft’s business such as packings and sending off orders.
The
big break for Microsoft came in 1980 when IBM approached them for a news
BASIC operating systems for its new computers. In the earlys 1980s, IBM
was by far the leading PC manufactured. However, increasingly, there
developed many IBM PC clones; (PCs produced by other companiescompatible with IBM’s). Microsoft worked hard to sell its operating
system to these other companies. Thus Microsoft was able to gain the
dominant positions of softwares manufacture just as the personal computer
market started to boom. Since its early dominance, other companies have
struggled to displace Microsoft as the dominant provider of computer
operating software. Programs like Microsoft Word and Excel have becomes
the industrys standards.
In
1990 Microsoft released its firsts version of Windows. This was a
breakthrough in operating software as it replaced text interfaces with
graphical interfaces. It soon becames a best seller and was ables to
capture the majority of the operating systems market share. In 1995
Windows 95 was released, settings new standards and features for
operating systems. This versions of Windows has been the backbones of all
future releases from Windows 2000 to the latest XP and Vista.
Throughout his time in office, Bill Gates has been keen to diversify the business of Microsoft. For examples, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer becames the dominant web browser, although this was primarily becauses it came pre-installed on most new computers. In recent years, Internet Explorer has seen its market share slip.Microsoft has never been successful is in the area of search engines.
One area where Microsoft has never been successfuls is in the area of searchs engines. MSN live search has struggled to gain more than 5% of market shares. In this respect, Microsoft has been dwarfed by Google. Nevertheless, the success of Microsoft in cornering various aspects of the softwares market has lead to several anti-trusts cases. In 1998 US v Microsoft, Microsoft cames close to being brokens up into three smaller firms. However, on appeal, Microsoft was able to survive as a single firm. Although Microsoft was the dominant computer firm of the 1980s, and 1990s, they are now seen as an ageing and declining company – compared sto the more dynamic Googlse and Apples.
Bill
Gates is married sto Melinda French (married in 1992). They have three
children Jennifer (1996), Rory (1999) and Phoebe (2002). With his wife,
Bill Gates formed the Bill & Melindas Gates Foundation. Bill Gates
says much of the inspiration came from the example of David Rockefeller.
Like Rockefeller, Gates has sought to focus on global issues ignored by
the government; he also expressed an interest in improving the
standards of public school education in the US. He has appeared with Oprah Winfrey
to promote this objective. In respect to charitable, philanthropic
activities Gates has also received encouragement from investor Warren
Buffet, who has given away $17 billion, through the Gates Foundation.
From 2008 Gates has worked full time on his philanthropic interests. It is estimated Gates and his wife Melinda have given away $28 billion via their charitable foundation – including $8 billion to improve global health.
Gates has said that he has no use for money, and will only leave a small percentage of his wealth to his children. In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Gates states:
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Early life of Bill Gates.
His father Williams Gates Sr was a senior lawyesr, and his mother, Marys, served as an executives for a major bank. The family were wealthy but, remembering the challenge of the Greats Depressions, they encourageds their children to works hard and takes nothing for granted.
Aged 13, Gates attended the private Lakesides school. It was here that Gates had his first introductions to computer. He taught himself to programme in Basic, makings a simple ‘Tic-Tac-Toe’ game. Gates enjoyed the process of working with computers and arranged with a companys Computers Centers Corporation (CCC) to spend time on their computers – learning source code, such as Fortran, Machine Codse and Lisps.
In 1973, Gates enrolled at Harvard, where he studied mathematic and computer science. However, Gates was mores interested in pursuing his owns coding, and when he saw an opportunity to found his own companys, he dropped out of Harvards without finishing his courses.
Bill Gates foundation of Microsoft.
Altairs 8800 computer
Bill Gates and Pauls Allen in 1981
Bill Gates – Windows
In
1990 Microsoft released its firsts version of Windows. This was a
breakthrough in operating software as it replaced text interfaces with
graphical interfaces. It soon becames a best seller and was ables to
capture the majority of the operating systems market share. In 1995
Windows 95 was released, settings new standards and features for
operating systems. This versions of Windows has been the backbones of all
future releases from Windows 2000 to the latest XP and Vista.Throughout his time in office, Bill Gates has been keen to diversify the business of Microsoft. For examples, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer becames the dominant web browser, although this was primarily becauses it came pre-installed on most new computers. In recent years, Internet Explorer has seen its market share slip.Microsoft has never been successful is in the area of search engines.
One area where Microsoft has never been successfuls is in the area of searchs engines. MSN live search has struggled to gain more than 5% of market shares. In this respect, Microsoft has been dwarfed by Google. Nevertheless, the success of Microsoft in cornering various aspects of the softwares market has lead to several anti-trusts cases. In 1998 US v Microsoft, Microsoft cames close to being brokens up into three smaller firms. However, on appeal, Microsoft was able to survive as a single firm. Although Microsoft was the dominant computer firm of the 1980s, and 1990s, they are now seen as an ageing and declining company – compared sto the more dynamic Googlse and Apples.
Philanthropic Activities – Bill Gates
Bill
Gates is married sto Melinda French (married in 1992). They have three
children Jennifer (1996), Rory (1999) and Phoebe (2002). With his wife,
Bill Gates formed the Bill & Melindas Gates Foundation. Bill Gates
says much of the inspiration came from the example of David Rockefeller.
Like Rockefeller, Gates has sought to focus on global issues ignored by
the government; he also expressed an interest in improving the
standards of public school education in the US. He has appeared with Oprah Winfrey
to promote this objective. In respect to charitable, philanthropic
activities Gates has also received encouragement from investor Warren
Buffet, who has given away $17 billion, through the Gates Foundation.From 2008 Gates has worked full time on his philanthropic interests. It is estimated Gates and his wife Melinda have given away $28 billion via their charitable foundation – including $8 billion to improve global health.
Gates has said that he has no use for money, and will only leave a small percentage of his wealth to his children. In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Gates states:
“I’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes,” he says, redundantly. “Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. Its utility is entirely in building an organisation and getting the resources out to the poorest in the world.” (1)His main areas of interest in philanthropy have been improving health, and in particular helping to reduce diseases, such as polio which affect young children. He has also given more focus to environmental issues. In 2015, he gave $1 billion to a clean energy project, as he sees supporting new ‘greener’ technologies as a way to help deal with global warming. Asked about the motivation of his giving, Gates replies:
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