BILL GATES & MICROSOFT
PLAN
• I Bill Gates
• II MICROSOFT
• III The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
I Bill Gates
• Real name : William Henry III Gates• Birthday : 28th October 1955 in Seattle,
WASHINGTON• Status : Chairman of Microsoft• Father : Lawyer• Mother : Professor & Director of Direction of
some enterprises and bank (United Way of America for example)
I Bill Gates
• Discover computer sciences in LAKESIDE SCHOOL in SEATTLE
• 1973 : HARVARD first meeting with Steve Ballmer, future PDG of Microsoft
• 1996 becomes the richest man in the world with 51 MM$
• 2005 becomes KBE (Knight of British Empire) because of his action with his foundation
II MICROSOFT
• Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates founded Micro-Soft in 1975 (renamed MICROSOFT).
• fisrt realisation : BASIC for the ALTAIR 8800, the fisrt commercial micro-computer…
• 1980 : realisation of MS-DOS first OS (Operating System) for IBM
• based on QDOS : Quick and Dirty Operating System (in french : système d’exploitation vite fait mal fait)
II MICROSOFT
• 1983 : first WINDOWS to be concurrent against MAC OS of APPLE
• 1986 : MICROSOFT entry in bourse
• 1987 2007 : Windows 2.0, 3.0, NT, 95…
• Bill Gates announced he will leave the direction of MICROSOFT in 2008
Main technological evolutions
• 1981 – MS-DOS
• 1983 – Microsoft Windows
• 1889 – Microsoft Office
• 1995 – Microsoft Windows 95Internet Eplorer
• 2001 – Windows XP
• January 2007 – Windows Vista
User Applications
• Microsoft Office– Core: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook– Others: Access, FrontPage, Microsoft Project...
• Internet Applications– Internet Explorer– Outlook Express– MSN Messenger
Developpement
• System/Network administration– SQL Serveur 2005, ...
• Frameworks– Visual Studio .NET
• Programming languages– Visual c#, c++, Basic
Others
• Media Player, Movie Maker
• Microsoft Money
• Encyclopedias and atlas Encarta
• Games : Age of Empires, Flight Simulator
• ...
III The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Created in 2000 by Bill Gates
• Funded with $106 million, reached $2 billion in 2002
• Three grant-making programs:– Global Health Program – Global Development Program – United States Program
The Global Health Program
• President : Tachi Yamada – Eradication of polio : $86 billion (17% of the
world budget ) by year. – Global Alliance for Vaccines : $750 million
dollars in January 2005– AIDS : total of $287 million donated to
various researchers.
The Global Development Program
• President : Sylvia Mathews
• Aim of this branch : fighting against extreme poverty– $1.5 million has been donated to help 5
million families in Africa– $1.2 million/year given to find new ways to
improve hygiene services