BILL GATES & MICROSOFT

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I Bill Gates
II MICROSOFT

I Bill Gates
Real name : William Henry III Gates
Birthday : 28th October 1955 in Seattle,
WASHINGTON
Status : Chairman of Microsoft
Father : Lawyer
Mother : Professor & Director of Direction of
some enterprises and bank (
United Way of America for example)

I Bill Gates
Discover computer sciences in LAKESIDE
SCHOOL in SEATTLE
1973 : HARVARD first meeting with
Steve Ballmer, future PDG of Microsoft
1996 becomes the richest man in the
world with 51 MM$
2005 becomes KBE (Knight of British
Empire) because of his action with his
foundation

II MICROSOFT
Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates founded Micro-Soft
in 1975 (renamed MICROSOFT).
fisrt realisation : BASIC for the ALTAIR 8800, the
fisrt commercial micro-computer
1980 : realisation of MS-DOS first OS (Operating
System) for IBM
based on QDOS : Quick and Dirty Operating
System (in french : systme dexploitation vite
fait mal fait)

II MICROSOFT
1983 : first WINDOWS to be concurrent
against MAC OS of APPLE
1986 : MICROSOFT entry in bourse
1987 2007 : Windows 2.0, 3.0, NT,
95
Bill Gates announced he will leave the
direction of MICROSOFT in 2008

Main technological evolutions

1981 MS-DOS
1983 Microsoft Windows
1889 Microsoft Office
1995 Microsoft Windows 95
Internet Eplorer
2001 Windows XP
January 2007 Windows Vista

User Applications
Microsoft Office
Core: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook
Others: Access, FrontPage, Microsoft Project...

Internet Applications
Internet Explorer
Outlook Express
MSN Messenger

Developpement
System/Network administration
SQL Serveur 2005, ...

Frameworks
Visual Studio .NET

Programming languages
Visual c#, c++, Basic

Others

Media Player, Movie Maker

Microsoft Money
Encyclopedias and atlas Encarta
Games : Age of Empires, Flight Simulator
...