Bill Gates Net Worth

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William Henry “Bill” Gates III, born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington, is an American computer pioneer and philanthropist. He is co-founder of Microsoft where he is Chairman and then 2000 Chief Architect. According to the newspaper Forbes Gates is one of the richest people in the world with a fortune of about 56 billion dollar.

Biography

Bill Gates was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. His father, William H. Gates was a prominent lawyer. His mother Mary was Board in First Interstate Bank and United Way and her father was head of a bank. Bill Gates has two sisters, Kristi Anne, who is older, and Libby, who is younger.

Gates went to high school in Lakeside School. His main subjects were Mathematics and science subjects. In eighth grade students’ class mothers bought a computer for school through a Flea Market. Gates became interested in programming language BASIC I keep on with the computer during mathematics lessons.

To still be able to use the computers offered to Gates and his comrades Paul Allen, Ric Weiland and Kent Evans to find more security vulnerabilities in the system. Gates was then attending courses in Source for different applications running on the system. At age 14, Gates and Allen created a computer program and earned 20 000 dollars the first year, but their age made their business worse.

Gates reached the second highest rate in Boy Scouts of America (Boy Scouts).

Gates came into the Harvard -The University in 1973. There he met his future business partner Steve Ballmer.

1994 married Gates with Melinda Frenchtown. They have three children, Jennifer Katharine Gates (born April 26 1996), Rory John Gates (born May 23 1999) and Phoebe Adele Gates (born September 14 2002). They live in a modern luxury villa, Xanadu 2.0 over 1000 square feet in Medina in Washington. It March 2 2005 Gates was knighted for Knight Of the British Empire of Queen Elizabeth II and must therefore put the title KBE after their name.

Microsoft

In January 1975, After Gates had read a newspaper article about Altair 8800; he contacted the computer manufacturer, MITS. He told them that he and some others were working on a BASIC-interpreter for Altair 8800th In fact; they had not started writing the code and did not even have an Altair computer, but just wanted to bring MITS interest. MITS Director, Ed Roberts agreed to meet with them for a show. A few weeks before the meeting began the writing program. They developed an Altair-Emulator running on a minicomputer, And a BASIC interpreter. When they showed what they had accomplished was the agreement that they would launch the interpreter who Altair Basic. Paul Allen was hired by MITS, and Gates took time off from Harvard to work with Allen at MITS. In November 1975 Gates and Allen started the partnership “Micro-soft”, and the year after it was renamed to “Microsoft”.

In February 1976, Gates wrote a letter to computer enthusiasts in which he assured that there was a commercial market for computer software, something that few believed. He also said that the software would not be copied without permission.

IBM

1980 contacted IBM Microsoft and told me that they were interested in a BASIC interpreter for their upcoming IBM PC. When they mentioned that they needed a operating systems Gates referred them to Digital Research (DRI), Manufacturers of the popular operating system CP / M. IBM’s negotiations with DRI went bad and they had no license. IBM said license difficulties at upcoming meeting with Gates and asked him to fix a working operating system, something which is perhaps the most important thing in Microsoft’s history.

A few weeks later, Bill Gates suggested that they would use MS-DOS (QDOS), A CP / M-like operating system which Seattle Computer Products (SCI) had created for similar hardware. Microsoft bought 86-DOS by SCI for only $ 50 000, without mentioning anything about that IBM was a potential buyer. After having adapted this operating system to PC Microsoft delivered it to IBM as PC-DOS and received as payment of a lump sum.

Windows

Early in the 1980s introduced the Microsoft own version of a graphical user interface (GUI) based on Xerox and Apple. Microsoft launched “Windows”, A supplement and alternative to their DOS systems, in order to compete with other graphical operating systems. Early in the 1990′s, Windows competed out several other GUI’s, which GEM and GEOS, from the market. The launch of Windows 3.0 became a huge success in that Microsoft sold around 10 million copies in its first two years, and established thereby Microsoft’s dominance in operating systems sales. By pre-installing Windows, Microsoft assured that it would eventually become the largest software company in the world which has made Bill Gates the richest man in several years. Paul Allen left Microsoft 1983 due to illness and Gates worked as president of the company until the year 2000When Steve Ballmer took over the position.

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