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Akash SaxenAkash Saxena
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Person-DataPerson-Data Born- October 28, 1955( age 55) Seattle, Washington
Residence United State Alma Mater- Harvard University
(Dropped
out in 1975 by,honorary degree in 2007)
Occupation- Chairman ofMicrosoft, Co-Chair ofBill andMelinda Gates foundation
Net worth-US$ 58 Billion(2008)
Spouse- Melinda Gates (1994-present)
Children- Jennifer KatharineGates(1996), Rory JohnGates(1999) and PhoebeAdele Gates(2002)
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Best known ForBest known For
An American businessmanagement
Philanthropist
The words thirdrichest person(as on8 Feb, 2008)
Second richest
American (as of Oct10, 2008)
Chairman ofMicrosoft
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Before MicrosoftBefore Microsoft
Family and earlychildhood
First computing
ExperienceRoots of business
career
The birth ofMicrosoft
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Family and early childhoodFamily and early childhood
Gates was born in Seattle, Washington, to William H. Gates Sr.and Mary Maxwell Gates, of English, German, and Scotch-Irishdescent. His family was upper middle class; his father was aprominent lawyer, his mother served on the board of directors forFirst Interstate BancSystem and the United Way, and her father,
J. W. Maxwell, was a national bank president. Gates has one eldersister, Kristi (Kristianne),and one younger sister, Libby. He wasthe fourth of his name in his family, but was known as WilliamGates III or "Trey" because his father had dropped his own "III"suffix. Early on in his life, Gates' parents had a law career in mindfor him.
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First computing experienceFirst computing experience
At 13 he enrolled in the Lakeside School, an exclusive preparatoryschool. When he was in the eighth grade, the Mothers Club at theschool used proceeds from Lakeside School's rummage sale to buyan ASR-33 teletype terminal and a block of computer time on aGeneral Electric (GE) computer for the school's students. Gates
took an interest in programming the GE system in BASIC and wasexcused from math classes to pursue his interest. He wrote hisfirst computer program on this machine: an implementation oftic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer.Gates was fascinated by the machine and how it would alwaysexecute software code perfectly.
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Roots of Business careerRoots of Business career
Gates joined Harvard in 1973.In Harvard, he meet with hisfuture business partner SteveBallmer, whom he later appointed
as CEO of Microsoft. Gates andSteve spent most of their time on
schools computer. In January1975 Altair 8800 was released inthe market, they add MITS inAltair 8800, and it became very
popular in computer hobbyists.After the success of the product
they decided to start their ownsoftware company. He had talkedthis decision over with hisparents, who were supportive ofhim after seeing how much Gateswanted to start a company.
Gates and Ballmer
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The birth of MicrosoftThe birth of Microsoft
Gates and Paul Allen work with each other in MITS inAlbuquerque. In November 1975 they decided to work inpartnership. They named their partnership Micro-soft andhad their first office located in Albuquerque. Within a yearthe hyphen was dropped, and on November 26, 1976, thetrade nameMicrosoftwas registered with the office of thesecretary of the state of new Mexico.
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MicrosoftMicrosoft
Basic IBM partnership Windows
Management style Antitrust law violation Appearance in Ads
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BasicBasic
After reading the issue ofPopularElectronics that demonstrateAltair 8800, Gates decided to addMicro instrumentation and
telemetry systemin Altair 8800. After that Gates became the
creator of the newmicroprocessor.
When the president of MITS EDRoberts saw the invention of theGates, he wanted to meet withGates for a demo, and over the
course of a weeks they developedan Altair emulator that ran on a
minicomputer, and them theBASIC interpreter.
And within a year BASIC waspopular with computer hobbyist.
MITS Altair 8800 Computer with 8-inch(200 mm) floppy disk system
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IBM partnershipIBM partnership
In 1980, IBM approached Microsoft to write thebasic interpreter for its upcoming personalcomputer IBM PC. When IBMs representativementioned that they needed an operating
system, Gates referred them to digital researchmakers of the widely used CP\M operatingsystem. But they did not reach the licenseagreement then IBM go back to the Gates and
few week after Gates proposed 86-DOS (QDOS),an operating system similar to the CP\M. Afterthe check Gates deliver it to IBM as PC-DOS inexchange for a one time fee of$50,000.
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WindowsWindows
Microsoft launched its first retail version ofMicrosoft Windows on November 20, 1985, and inAugust, the company struck a deal with IBM todevelop a separate operating system called OS/2.
on May 16, 1991,Gates declared that the OS/2partnership was over and Microsoft shift its
efforts to the Windows NT Kernel development.
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Management styleManagement style
From Microsoft's founding in 1975 until2006, Gates had primary responsibility forthe company's product strategy. He
aggressively broadened the company'srange of products, and wherever Microsoftachieved a dominant position hevigorously defended it.
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Antitrust law violationAntitrust law violation
Many decisions that led toantitrust litigation overMicrosofts business practiceshave had Gates approval. Inthe 1998 United State V.
Microsoft case, Gates gavedeposition testimony thatseveral journalistscharacterized as evasive.Gates argued with examinerDavid Boies over the
contextual meaning of wordslike compete, concernedand we.
Bill Gates giving his deposition at Microsoft onAugust 27, 1998
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Appearance in adsAppearance in ads
Gates decided in2008, to appear inat least one commercial in a seriesof ads to promote Microsoft. Thiscommercial, co-staring Jerry
Seinfeld, it is a 90-secondcommercial.
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Personal LifePersonal Life
Philanthropy
Recognition
Investment
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PhilanthropyPhilanthropy
In 1994 Gates sold some ofhis Microsoft stock to createthe William H. GatesFoundation. In 2000, Gates andhis wife combined three family
foundations into one to createthe charitable Bill & MelindaGates Foundation, which is thelargest transparently operatedcharitable foundation in theworld. The foundation is set up
to allow benefactors access tohow its money is being spent,unlike other major charitableorganizations such as theWelcome Trust. The generosityand extensive philanthropy of
David Rockefeller has been
( ) ,Gates second from right with Bono Queen Rania of, ,Jordan British Prime Minister Gordon Brown President Yar
Adua of Nigeria and other participants in a 'Call toAction on the Millennium Development Goals' during the,Annual Meeting 2008 of the World Economic Forum in Davos
.Switzerland
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RecognitionRecognition
Timemagazine named Gates one of the 100 people who mostinfluenced the 20th century.Time collectively named Gates, his wife Melinda and rockband U2s lead singer Bono as the 2005 Persons of the Year for
their humanitarian efforts. ,In 2006 Gates was voted eighth in the list of "Heroes".of our time
In 1994 Gates named CEO of the year by Executive officermagazine.In 1998 Gates ranked number one in the Top 50 cyber elite
by Times.In 2001 Gates include in The Guardian as one of the Topinfluential people in the media.In 2000 Gates has received Honorary Doctorates by theNyenrode University, Breukelen, The Netherland.
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InvestmentInvestment
Cascade Investments LLC, aprivate investment and holdingcompany, incorporated in United
States, is controlled by Bill Gates,and is headquartered in the city ofKirkland, WA.BgC3, a new think-tank company
founded by Bill Gates.Corbis, a digital image licensingand rights services company.
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The Road AheadThe Road Ahead
Author-Bill GateswithNathan Myhrvoldand Peter Ryerson
Language- English Publisher- Viking Publication date-
1995
Media type- Hardback+ CD-ROM Pages- 286
The Road Ahead
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Business @ The Speed ofBusiness @ The Speed ofThoughtThought
Author- Bill Gates
Published- 1999
About the book-Discusses howbusiness andtechnology can
be integrated
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A Great journey stopped byA Great journey stopped byGatesGates
In 2006 Gates announcedthat he would be transitioningfrom full time work atMicrosoft to part time workand full time work at the Bill
and Melinda Gates foundation.He gradually transferred hisduties to Ray Ozzie, chiefsoftware architect and CraigMundie, chief research andstrategy officer. Gates last full
time day at Microsoft wasJune 27, 2008. He remains atMicrosoft as non-executivechairman.
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