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¬ Introduction
¬ Schooling
¬ Establishing Microsoft
¬ IBM partnership
¬ About Microsoft
¬ Windows
¬ Gates as philanthropist
¬ Year wise awards

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¬ William Henry Bill Gates, born on
october28, 1955, he was only son of
William Henry gates and Mary Maxwell

¬ He is an American business magnate,

philanthropist, author for several books

¬ Chairman of Microsoft

¬ Consistently ranked among the world¶s wealthiest people from

1995 to 2009

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¬ At 13, he enrolled in Lakeside school

¬ When he was in eighth, the mothers club

buy a computers from GE for school students

¬ Interest in programming, he wrote his first computer program

on this system, an implementation of tic-tac-toe game

¬ Developed schools computer program

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¬ At age 17 gates formed a venture with
Allen called Traf-O-Data to make traffic
counters based on intel8008 processor

¬ Enrolled at Harvard university in 1973

¬ In 1974 summer, with Paul Allen joined

in MITS, the creators of new micro
computer

¬ They are hired and established first mini computer Altair BASIC

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¬ Named there partnership as ³Microcomputer-Software´

¬ On Nov 26 1976, the trade name Microsoft was registered

¬ Became worlds best in

developing operating systems

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¬ Named there partnership as ³Micro-Soft´

¬ On Nov 26 1976, the trade name Microsoft was registered

¬ Became worlds best in

developing operating systems

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¬ In 1980 IBM approached, to

write the basic interpreter for its
upcoming PC

¬ Developed PC-DOS

¬ Later it became MS-DOS, made Microsoft a major player in

the industry

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¬ Many criticize gates, because they feels that, he is dominating the
market illegally

¬ U.S government brought a lawsuit saying the company had an

illegal strong hold on software industry

¬ Due to this in 2000, gates braked Microsoft, and transferred his

CEO post to his friend Steve Ballmer

¬ Gates held on his advisor position in reshuffling

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¬ Launched first retail version of Microsoft windows on Nov
20,1985

¬ Later developed windows NT kernel

¬ Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, 7

¬ MS SQL Server

¬ MS Office

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¬ Gates is also a philanthropist

¬ In 1996, founded Bill & Melinda Gates foundation with $4b

¬ $1b to college scholarships

¬ $750m for children vaccines

¬ $50m for WHO to eradicate polio

¬ $20m Seattle public library

¬ $3m to prevent spread of AIDS

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¬ 1992- Awarded µnational level of technology¶ by George bush

¬ 1995- CEO of Microsoft

¬ 1995-2009, except 2008-

worlds richest person by
Forbes

¬ 2000-2006: served as chairman of Microsoft

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¬ Bill gates, inventor of Microsoft, world leading software company.

¬ Developed so many system utilities like Operating systems, MS-

Office, search engines. Played a vital role in developing
technology world wide.

¬ With out Bill gates, it may take couple of years more to see the
friendly GUI OS.

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¬ www.notablebiographies.com/Fi-Gi/Gates-Bill.html

¬ www.wikipedia.org

¬ www.google.com/images

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