Monday, November 21, 2011

Bill Gates - Founder of Microsoft

William Henry Gates III, better known by the name Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. Bill Gates is the second of three brothers. His father William Henry Gates was a corporate lawyer who had many relations in the city. While his mother Mary Maxwell, an employee of First Interstate Bank, Pacific Northwest Bell and members of the National United Way.

Bill's a smart boy, but he was too full of spirit and tend to often have difficulty in school. When he was eleven years old, his parents decided to make a change in him and sent him to Lakeside School, a prestigious elementary school specifically for boys. At Lakeside that in 1968 Bill Gates for the first time introduced to the world of computers, in the form of a teletype machine that connected to the phone to a computer time sharing.

He quickly mastered BASIC, a computer programming language, and together with the hackers who taught himself at Lakeside, he spent time with hours and hours writing a program, play a game, and generally learned a lot about computers. "He was an eccentric," as one of his teachers gave Gates's nickname. Bill Gates took lectures at Harvard University in Cambridge began in 1975. There he met Paul Allen during school together. With Paul Allen, Bill Gates continues to develop his talents in the field of computer programming. However, Bill Gates decided to come out (drop out) to donate her time to Microsoft.



Background Work

Through his hard efforts, the company he founded called Microsoft Corporation Bill Gates became a success and soar to become a millionaire. In 1990 Bill Gates was successfully released a very successful operating system in the world market. However, Bill Gates also got a bad reputation in his career. Not just once, even Bill Gates made several errors in its software business. In 1990 Bill Gates gets the demands of the United States Justice Department charges that Gates has a monopoly on small companies. And once again Bill Gates is tripped by the statute law of the United States business in 1999. In 2000, Bill Gates resigned from his post as Chief Executive Officer and he chose to return to his old profession that he loved the Head of Research and Development Software at his own company, Microsoft Corp.. And in early 2008, Bill Gates decided to resign from the management of Microsoft and concentrate on philanthropic work through the charity he founded, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.


Personal Life

In his personal life, Gates married Melinda French on January 1, 1994. They have three children, Jennifer Katherine Gates (1996), Rory John Gates (1999) and Phoebe Adele Gates (2002). With his wife, Bill Gates has founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is a Social Foundation of attention pederita AIDS, scholarships for universities and concern in the third world. Critics say this is proof to many people's anger about monopolistic practices, the company superpower and several crimes he has done, but some people close to Bill Gates said that he had indeed been long planned to donate most of his wealth. In 1999 the Washington Post reported that "Gates has stated that he decided to donate $ 5 billion to their organizations. It's certainly not surprising because, according to a survey by Forbes Magazine, Bill Gates has always been the richest man in the world in succession during the years 1996 to 2004 with the amount of $ 90 billion. With hard struggle and determination that Bill Gates has now reached his goal. To achieve success it is necessary sacrifices and an uphill battle, but the effort and unyielding attitude of Bill Gates has produced results that can he enjoyed to date .

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