Biography Bill Gates

William Henry Gates III (born on 28 October 1955), better known as Bill Gates, the founder (with Paul Allen) is a director and head while making the Software on Microsoft. He placed the first position in the richest person in the world version of Forbes magazine for 13 years, but since 5 March 2008 in the third position after a U.S. businessman Warren Buffett and Mexican businessman Carlos Slim Helú.
Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington from William Henry Gates, Jr.., A lawyer, and Mary Maxwell, officers First Interstate Bank, Pacific Northwest Bell, and members of the United Way National Level. Gates at Lakeside School study, the most elite schools superior in Seattle, and continue to lecture at Harvard University, but didrop out.
William Henry Gates III was born in 1955, the second of three children with the social situation in Seattle, Washington. His father a lawyer with a company that has many connections in the city, and his mother a teacher, who is active in charity activities. Bill for a smart, but he is too full of spirit and often tend to get trouble at school. When she was eleven years old, her parents decided to make changes and send them to the Lakeside School, a prestigious primary schools for boys.
At Lakeside that Gates in 1968 for the first time introduced the world's computers, in the form of a teletype machine that is connected to the phone to a computer time. This machine, called the ASR-33, the situation is still the market. In essence this a typewriter which students can enter the command sent to the computer; diketikkan answers back to the roll of paper on the teletype. This process of making, but to change the life of Gates. He control BASIC quickly, pemograman computer language, and with the hackers who study in Lakeside, he spend time learner-hours writing programs, doing games, and generally learn a lot about computers. "He is a 'nerd' (eccentric shapes)," as one of his teachers to give Gates the epithet.
Around 1975, when Gates with Paul Allen while still school together software programs to prepare for the first micro-computer. As the story in Popular Electronics about the "era of computers in the house" and they are sure the software is the future. This is the beginning of Microsoft.
During his study at Harvard, he and Paul Allen write software Altair BASIC for the Altair 8800 in the decade 1970. Altair is the first personal computer that success. Given inspiration by BASIC, a computer language that is easily learned and written in college and Dartmouth to teach, the version of Gates and Allen then became Microsoft BASIC, the computer language translation for the main computer operating system MS-DOS, which is the key to the success of Microsoft. Microsoft Basic in the future as the Microsoft QuickBasic. Microsoft QuickBasic versions sold without the compiler QuickBasic known as QBasic. QuickBasic also be used as Visual Basic, which is still popular until today.
In the decade beginning 1970, Gates wrote the Open Letter to Penghobi (Open Letter to Hobbyists), a community that has a surprising hobby on the computer with the claim that there is a commercial market for software / software and software that is not feasible copied and duplicated without the permission of the issuer. At that time, the communities affected by the strong base radio hamnya and ethical hacker, who argues that innovasi and knowledge should be divided by the computer user community. Gates founded Microsoft Corporation and then, one of the most successful companies in the world, and lead to the opening of the computer software industry.
Gates also get a reputation that is not good for how to trade. One example is MS-DOS. At the end of the decade 1970, IBM plans to enter the personal computer market with the IBM personal computer, which was published in 1981. IBM's operating system to require a computer, which can be planned and managed arkitektur includes 16-bit x86 chip family by Intel. After a confab with other companies (Digital Research Company in California), asked IBM to Microsoft. Without notifying them of ties with IBM, Microsoft executives to buy a x86 operating system from the company's Seattle Computer for $ 50,000. (There is the possibility of Microsoft prohibited IBM to notify people about the union to the public) and license Microsoft's operating system to IBM (which publish the name of the PC-DOS) and work with computer companies to publish the name of MS-DOS, on every computer system sold .
Microsoft's plan is successful, but as the Seattle Computer because Microsoft does not notify the union with IBM to purchase the operating system with cheap; because of this, Microsoft is paying money to the Seattle Computer, but not admitted. The reputation of Gates and more impaired by the allegations monopoly claim by the U.S. Department of Justice companies and individuals who oppose Microsoft in the last decade 1990.
In the decade 1980 Gates delighted over the possibility of the use of CD-ROM as a document storage media, book publishing and sponsoring the CD-ROM: The New Papyrus, which promote this.
Can not be denied that Bill Gates has made some mistakes in the business softwarenya. This is proven by some of the allegations referred to him regarding the way - the way a business that violates the law business the United States, for example, a monopoly of Internet Explorer on the Windows operating system.
In 2000, Bill Gates step down from office as Chief Executive Officer and memandatkannya to a friend ever, Steve Ballmer. Gates then choose to return to the profession that he ever love as the creator of the software. Now Bill Gates to become head of Research and Development of Software in own company, Microsoft Corp..


In personal life, Gates married Melinda French on January 1, 1994. They have three children, Jennifer Katharine Gates (1996), rory John Gates (1999) and Phoebe ADELE Gates (2002).
With his wife, Gates has established the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a foundation of social philanthropy. The critics say this is proving to the ire of many people on top of a monopoly and adikuasa company, but they are close to Gates say that he has long been planning to donate most of the property. In 1997 Washington Post newspaper that "Gates has stated that he decided to donate 90 percent of the property during her still alive." To put this in perspective is correct, this contribution, despite what the reason, has been providing the money that is required for university scholarships minority people, against AIDS and other reasons, mostly the issues that normally do not take the donor community, such as disease - diseases that we normally see in the third world. In June 1999, Gates and his wife donate $ 5 billion to their organization, the most donation in the world by individuals who live.
In 1994, he purchased Codex Leicester, a manuscript collection of Leonardo da Vinci Manuscript; in 2003, this collection on display at Seattle Art Museum.
In 2004, dikabarkan [1] that Gates will receive the award kesatriaan from Queen Elizabeth II on a date "has been mutual."
In 2008, Gates resign from the management of Microsoft and concentre on philanthropic work through the establishment of the foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Estimated Its riches
According to the Forbes list of most people in the rich world:
• 1996 - $ 18.5 billion, ranking # 1
• 1997 - $ 36.4 billion, ranking # 2
• 1998 - $ 51.0 billion, ranking # 1
• 1999 - $ 90.0 billion, ranking # 1
• 2000 - $ 60.0 billion, ranking # 1
• 2001 - $ 58.7 billion, ranking # 1
• 2002 - $ 52.8 billion, ranking # 1
• 2003 - $ 40.7 billion, ranking # 1
• 2004 - $ 46.6 billion, ranking # 1