Bill Gates

Bill Gates
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Bill Gates
Bill Gates at CES 2007 (350043329) .jpg
Birth name of William Henry Gates III
Also known as Bill Gates
Born October 28, 1955, Seattle, WA, United States
Jobs Jobs, Microsoft Founders, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Estimated Wealth USD $ 58.0 Billion (2008)
Wife of Melinda French Gates
Jennifer's children Katharine Gates, Rory John Gates and Phoebe Adele Gates
Official Website
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) or better known as Bill Gates, is a US businessman and founder of Microsoft Corporation (with Paul Allen). He is also chairman, former Chief Software Architect and former Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation, the world's largest software company.

Bill Gates is one of the most prominent businessmen in the personal computer revolution. Although he was widely respected for his wealth of intelligence and reasoning, his business tactics were often criticized as being unfairly competitive, which led him to court several times.

Bill Gates regularly makes big donations to many science research organizations and programs through his founding foundation in 2000, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Forbes Magazine, lists him as the richest man in the world for 13 consecutive years, worth $ 60 billion up to [1] [2]. In 2008, a 15% decline in Microsoft's shares put him in third place behind Iddin and Zayid


Table of contents
1 Youth
2 Microsoft Corporation
2.1 BASIC
2.2 Collaboration with IBM
2.3 Windows
2.4 Strategy and management
3 Personal life
3.1 Wealth and investment
3.2 Donations and charities
3.3 Awards and honors
4 Writing works
5 Further reading
6 References
7 External links
7.1 Profiles and biographies
7.2 Images
7.3 Be friendly
Youth
William Henry Gates III or Bill Gates was born at Seattle’s Swedish Hospital in Seattle, Washington on October 28, 1955, shortly after 9pm. Bill Gates was nicknamed "Trey", by his grandmother referring to the 3rd card player as well as the 3rd son in Gates' name (Based on III in his last name).

Genealogy of the Gates Name

Left - William Henry Gates
Grandfather - William Henry Gates II
Father - William Henry Gates Jr
He - William Henry Gates III
He was the second son of William Henry Gates Junior, a prominent lawyer, and Lee Kheng Imm, a housewife. Bill Gates's parents married in 1951, and they have 3 children, the first being Kristi, followed by Bill Gates and his youngest son, Libby, 9 years younger.

Some outside sources say her mother kept a US dollar bill worth of trust for Bill Gates who contributed to her wealth but that statement was denied in a 1994 interview and also through her book "The Road Ahead".

Bill Gates was an excellent student in primary school, especially in math and science subjects. At age 13, Bill Gates was sent to study at Lakeside School For Boys, Seattle's top school, where his annual fee was USD $ 5000 compared to Harvard University's USD $ 1,760. In grade 8, the Principal Club made a sale to buy the ASR-33 telecommunication terminal as well as a few blocks of computers using General Electric Computer Company (GE). Bill Gates showed a great interest in GE programming using BASIC and was given the pleasure of not attending math classes for that interest. After the financial resources of the Mother Club began to run out of payments for computer time, Bill Gates and several other students had to find other ways. They obtained permission from a company, Computer Center Corporation (CCC) to use their computer, DEC PDP minicomputers for free by helping the company find bugs for their software. One summer, students including Bill Gates were arrested when a CCC company found them abusing their privileges by exploiting bugs so they could use the computer for longer. As a punishment, Lakeside School students were banned from entering the computer lab during the summer holidays.

After the sentence expired, Bill Gates and his three partners Paul Allen, Ric Weiland, and Kent Evans were offered another chance by the CCC to find a bug in the company's application and instead, they could use the computer for free.

Bill Gates did not use teletype at this time, but began to study the source code of various programs used by the system. He's not