Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III or who is
popular well known in the public. He, Bill Gates, was born in 1985 in
Seattle, Washington in United States Of America. He is a well known as
the American business executive, who serves as chairman of One of the
popular IT corporation, Microsoft Corporation, as the leading computer
software company in the United States Of America. Before his success
came, he attended public school through the sixth gradeof his school. In
the seventh grade he entered Seattle’s exclusive Lakeside School, in
which he met his best friend Paul Allen. Surprisingly, they cofound
Microsoft, in 1975 which now everybody know it as popular software
corporation.
In 1980 Microsoft closed a pivotal deal
with International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) and as also
popular American corporation,which to provide the operating system for
the IBM PC personal computer. In 1986 Microsoft offered its stock to the
public so that is why everyone in the world now can use microsoft
application; by 1987 rapid appreciation of the stock had made Gates, 31,
as the youngest over self-made billionare person. Wow.
In 1989 he founded Cobis Corporation,
which now owns the largest collection of digital images in all over the
world. In the 1990s, as Microsoft’s Windows Operating system and Office
application software achieved worldwide market dominance by their works,
so that Gates ammased a fortune who tens of billions of dollars.
In the late 1990’s, with his wife,
Melinda, he established the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as the
corporate social responsibility, which at that time, ranked by assets,
quickly became the largest foundation in the world. In addition, Gates
has also authored some books that: The Road Ahead (1995;revised, 1996),
which details his vision of technology’s in society, and Business @ the
Speed of Thoughout (1999), which is discussed the role technology that
can play in running a business.
In 1998 Gates appointed as an executive
vice president of Microsoft, with Steve Ballmer, to as the position of
president, but Gates continued to serve as Microsoft’s chairman and
chief executive officer (CEO).In 2000 Gates transferred the title of CEO
to Ballmer. It is as his great works. While remaining chairman, Bill
also took on the title of chief software architect to focus on the
development of new products and technologies in Microsoft.
In June 2006 Gates announced that he
would begin transitioning from a full-time role working at Microsoft to a
full-time role at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He
relinquished his title of chief software architect to Ray Ozzie, who as a
veteran leader in computer technology and creator of Lotus Notes. Bill
Gates planned to remain chairman of Microsoft and to continue as its
largest shareholder in his life, but he said that by July 2008 he would
have only a part-time role at the company he cofounded. Great Job Bill
Gates!
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