#Biography #Bill #Gates #ShortBio of Bill Gates William Henry Gates was #born on #October28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington) As #founderof #Microsoft, Bill Gates is one ofthe most influential andrichest people on the planet. Recent estimates of his wealth put it at $56billion, this is the equivalent of the combined GDP of several African economies. In recent years he has retired from workingfull time at Microsoft,instead he has concentrated on workingwith his charitable foundation “The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation” #BillGatesFoundationOfMicrosoft #BillGates founded Microsoft in 1976 when he formed a contract with MITTS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) to develop a basic operating systemfor their new #microcomputers. In the early days Bill Gates would review every line of code. He was also involved in several aspects of Microsoft’s business such as packing and sending off orders. The big break for Microsoft came in 1980 when #IBM approached them fora new #BASIC operating system for its new computers. In the early 1980s IBM was by far the leading PC manufacture. However increasingly there developed many IBM PC clones; (PCs developed by other companies compatible with IBM’s). Microsoft worked hard to sell its operating systemto these othercompanies. Thus Microsoft was able to gain the dominant position of software manufacture just as the personal computer market started to boom. Since its early dominance no other company has come close to displacing Microsoft as the dominant providerof computeroperating software. #BillGates– #Windows In 1990 Microsoft released its first version of Windows. This was a break through in operating software as it replaced text interfaces with graphical interfaces. It soon became a best seller and was able to capture the majority of the operating system market share. In 1995 Windows 95 was released, setting new standards and features for operating systems. This version of windows has been the backbone of all future releases from Windows 2000 to the latest XP and Vista. #Throughout his time in office Bill Gates has been keen to diversify the business of Microsoft. For example #Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has become the dominant web browser, although this is mainly because it comes pre installed on most new computers. In one area at least Microsoft has not gained #Monopoly power,and that is in the area of search engines. #MSN live search has #struggled to gain more than 12%of market share. In this respect #Microsoft has been dwarfed by #Google. #Nevertheless the success of Microsoft in cornering various aspects of the software market has led to several anti trust cases. In 1998 US v Microsoft, Microsoft came close to beingbroken up into 3 smallerfirms. Howeveron appeal Microsoft were able to survive as a single firm. #PhilanthropicActivities– Bill Gates Bill Gates is #Married to #Melinda French (married in 1992). They have #3children #Jennifer (1996), #Rory (1999) and #Phoebe (2002). With his wife Bill Gates formedthe Bill& Melinda Gates Foundation. Bill Gates says much of the inspiration came from the example of #DavidRockefeller. Like Rockefeller, Gates has sought to focus on global issues ignored by the government; he also expressed an interest in improvingthe standards of public school education in the US. He has appeared with #Oprah #Winfrey to promote this #objective. In respect to charitable, #philanthropic activities Gates has also received encouragement frominvestor Warren Buffet. Recently Gates announced that from 2008 he would work full time on his philanthropic interests. Forbes magazine 2004 estimated that Gates has given over$24 billion dollars in the 4 years from 2000 to 2004.
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