Bill Gates, whose real name is William Henry Gates III was born in Seattle, Washington, October 28, 1955 (56 years old) was the founder of U.S. software company Microsoft and colleagues of Paul Allen. Bill Gates also once chairman of this company.
William Henry Gates III is the 2nd of three brothers in leading social situation in Seattle, Washington. His father (William Henry Gates, Sr.) was a lawyer with the firm which had many connections in town, and his mother (Mary Maxwell) a teacher, who was active in charitable activities. Bill's a smart boy, but he was too passionate and tend to often get into trouble at school. When he was thirteen, his parents decided to make changes and send them to the Lakeside School, a prestigious elementary school specifically for boys.
At Lakeside that Gates in 1968 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. This machine, called the ASR-33, the situation is still the market. At its core is a typewriter that students can enter commands sent to the computer; answers back to the roll of paper typed on the teletype. This process is inconvenient, but changing the lives of Gates. He quickly mastered the BASIC computer programming language, and together with the hackers who taught himself at Lakeside, he spent hours writing a program, play a game, and generally learn a lot about computers. "He was a 'nerd' (eccentric)," as one of the teachers gave the surname Gates.
Around the year 1975 when Gates with Paul Allen while still in school together to prepare the first software program for the micro-computer. As a story in Popular Electronics about the "era of computers in homes" and they both believe is the future of software. This is the beginning of Microsoft.
While he was a student at Harvard, he and Paul Allen the original Altair BASIC for the Altair 8800 in the mid 1970s. Altair is the first commercially successful personal computer. Inspired by BASIC, a computer language that is easy to learn and at Dartmouth College for teaching, the version Gates and Allen later became Microsoft BASIC, a language translation of the main computer for the computer operating system MS-DOS, which was the key to the success of Microsoft. Microsoft Basic in Microsoft QuickBasic will be used. Microsoft QuickBasic versions are sold without QuickBASIC compiler known as QBasic. QuickBasic is also used as Visual Basic, which is still popular until today.
In the early 1970s, Gates wrote an Open Letter to the hobbyist (Open Letter to Hobbyists), which shocked the community who have a hobby on the computer by stating that there is a commercial market for software / software and that software is not worth copied and duplicated without permission of the publisher. At that time, the community was strongly influenced by its ham radio legacy and hacker ethic, which argued that innovation and knowledge should be shared by a community of computer users. Gates later founded Microsoft Corporation, one of the most successful companies in the world, and led the way to the opening of the computer software industry.
Gates also got a bad reputation for how to trade. One example is MS-DOS. In the late 1970s, IBM plans to enter the personal computer market with the IBM personal computer, which was published in 1981. IBM needed an operating system for the computer, which was able to include and manage 16-bit architecture by Intel's x86 chip family. After conferring with another company (Company Digital Research in California), IBM asked Microsoft. Without revealing their ties with IBM, Microsoft executives bought an x86 operating system from Seattle Computer for $ 50,000. (It's possible Microsoft prohibited IBM to notify you of the bond to the layman) Microsoft then licensed it to IBM's operating system (which published it under the name PC-DOS) and work with computer companies to publish under the name MS-DOS, on every computer system sold .
Microsoft's plan is very successful but was sued by Seattle Computer because Microsoft did not inform about its ties with IBM to buy it with cheap operating system; because of this, Microsoft is paying money to Seattle Computer, but not admitting guilt. Gates' reputation was further impaired by the demands of monopoly charges by the U.S. Department of Justice and individual companies against Microsoft in the late 1990s.
In the 1980s Gates was excited about the possibility of using CD-ROMs as a document storage media, and sponsoring the publication of CD-ROM: The New Papyrus that promoted this.
There is no denying that Bill Gates has made some mistakes in the software industry. This is evident with some of the charges against him relating to the way - the way business is violating the laws U.S. business, such as the monopoly of Internet Explorer on Windows operating systems.
In 2000, Bill Gates resigned from his post as CEO and memandatkannya to his old friend, Steve Ballmer. Gates then chose to return to his old profession which he loved as the creator of the software. Now Bill Gates became the Head of Research and Software Development in his own company, Microsoft Corp..
Personal life: Gates married Melinda French on January 1, 1994. They have three children, Jennifer Katharine Gates (1996), Rory John Gates (1999) and Phoebe Adele Gates (2002).
With his wife, Gates founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a charitable organization. Critics say this is proof of people's anger about the practice of monopoly and corporate superpowers, but they are close to Gates say that he has long planned to donate most of his wealth. In 1997 the Washington Post declared that "Gates has stated that he decided to donate 90 percent rather than his property while he was still alive." To put this in proper perspective, this contribution, though why, has provided the money that are necessary for minority college scholarships, against AIDS and other causes, mostly the usual issues ignored by the donor community, such as disease- diseases that we commonly see in the third world. In June 1999, Gates and his wife donated $ 5 billion to their organization, pendermaan greatest in the world by living individuals.
In 1994, he bought the Codex Leicester, a collection of writings by Leonardo da Vinci manuscript; in 2003 the collection was exhibited at the Seattle Art Museum.
In 2005, Gates received the chivalry (Knight Commander of the Order of the Honorary British Empire) from Queen Elizabeth II.
On June 27, 2008, Gates withdrew from most of his post at Microsoft (but remained as chairman of the board of directors) and concentrate on philanthropic work through the foundation she founded, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Gates Wealth Estimates
According to the Forbes list of richest people in the world:
1996 - $ 18.5 Billion, Ranked # 1
1997 - $ 36.4 Billion, Ranked # 2
1998 - $ 51.0 Billion, Ranked # 1
1999 - $ 90.0 Billion, Ranked # 1
2000 - $ 60.0 Billion, Ranked # 1
2001 - $ 58.7 Billion, Ranked # 1
2002 - $ 52.8 Billion, Ranked # 1
2003 - $ 40.7 Billion, Ranked # 1
2004 - $ 46.6 Billion, Ranked # 1
2010 - $ 53.0 Billion, Ranked # 2
2011 - $ 61.0 Billion, Ranked # 2
And his life story was filmed by several directors. The films are :
- The Simpsons (February 15, 1998) (Season 9, Episode 5F11) Bill Gates "buy" Internet companies Homer Simpson, CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet.
- South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut (1999) - a general in the army complained that Windows 98 is not faster than Windows 95, and want to meet Bill Gates. When Gates started explaining how Windows 98 was faster than Windows 95, he was shot by the generals.
- Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999), a film that has didramatis, about the company Apple and Microsoft.
- Antitrust (2001), a film about a computer software writer who works in a company. Tim Robbins is Gary Winston, chairman of the company, and some believe that his character mimics Bill Gates.
- Nothing So Strange (2002), a fictional film about the Gates assassination.
