Biografi

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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