Bill gates biography

Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955. His father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. Mary Gates, his late mother was a teacher at the University of Washington. A private school in Seattle Lakeside North Gates began his career in personal computer software programming, and that at age 13.

In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived near Steve Ballmer, now Microsoft chairman. He developed a version of the BASIC programming language for the first microcomputer. But Gates suddenly abandons Harvard to devote his energies full-time to Microsoft, a company he had set up in 1975 with his friend Paul Allen. Guided by the fact that the personal computer is a universal tool, they began to develop software.

Foresight and vision for the Gates of personal computing has been a success for Microsoft and the software industry. Gates was actively involved in key management and strategic decisions of Microsoft, and played an important role in the technical development of new products.

In 1995, Gates wrote "The Road of the Future", where there depicts his vision of the future world, the explosion of technology and the importance of information. Published in more than 20 countries, the book has sold over 400,000 copies, and then only in China. His book became a bestseller and Gates supports teachers worldwide who incorporate computers to their class.

Co-produced by Gates and Allen with an interpreter for the Altair 8800 is a milestone in the history of personal computing, as it is the first programming language to run on a commercial PC.

IBM wishing to market its own computers, makes an agreement with Microsoft that Gates and Allen achieve their operating system.

Microsoft then buys the QDOS operating system into MS-DOS, Windows and designs, both in the virtual world monopoly.

Obtaining permission to sell its operating system to many computer manufacturers that copy the IBM PC is a great opportunity.

Microsoft's success comes from its ability to evolve its operating system and its range of office software Microsoft Office, word processing, spreadsheet, database, utilities, games, kept pace with the technological development of micro- computers.

The explosion of computer equipment and almost obligatory presence of Windows on each machine does the rest.

In 1986, Microsoft made its IPO. Investors welcomed him enthusiastically on the same day, Gates became a billionaire.

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It is thanks to the commercial success of Microsoft, one of the richest men in the world from 1996 to 2007, with a personal fortune estimated at more than $ 56 billion in 2011. He is a Knight of the British Empire in 2005. Bill Gates Microsoft left June 27, 2008 to pursue his humanitarian foundation.

In addition to his passion for computers, Gates is interested in biotechnology. He sits on the committee and Icos Corporation is a shareholder in the group Chiroscience UK and its wholly owned subsidiary, Chiroscience R & D Inc. (Formerly Molecular Darwin) Bothell. He also founded Corbis Corporation, which is developing one of the largest resources of visual information in the world - complete digital archive of art and photography, public and private collections worldwide.

Over the past twelve years, since Microsoft went public actions Gates has donated more than $ 800 million to charity, including $ 200 million to the Gates Foundation to help libraries in North America to shoot advantage of new technologies.

Bill Gates left Microsoft 27 June 2008 to pursue his humanitarian foundation.

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Bill Gates Field

William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor.[3][4][5] Gates originally established his reputation as the co-founder of Microsoft, the world’s largest PC software company, with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, and was also the largest individual shareholder up until May 2014.[6][a] He has also authored and co-authored several books.

Today he is consistently ranked in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people[9] and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2014—excluding a few brief periods post-2008.[1] Between 2009 and 2014 his wealth more than doubled from $40 billion to more than $82 billion.[10] Between 2013 and 2014 his wealth increased by $15 billion, or around $1.5 billion more than the entire GDP of Iceland in 2014.[11]

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Gates has been criticized for his business tactics, which have been considered anti-competitive, an opinion which has in some cases been upheld by numerous court rulings.[12][13] In the later stages of his career, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000.[14]

Gates stepped down as chief executive officer of Microsoft in January 2000. He remained as chairman and created the position of chief software architect for himself. In June 2006, Gates announced that he would be transitioning from full-time work at Microsoft to part-time work, and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He gradually transferred his duties to Ray Ozzie (who has since left Microsoft), chief software architect, and Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer. Gates's last full-time day at Microsoft was June 27, 2008. He stepped down as chairman of Microsoft in February 2014, taking on a new post as technology advisor to support newly appointed CEO Satya Nadella.[15]

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Bill Gates failure

An example in this sector which illustrates this statement is Bill Gates. Indeed, it was in 1972 that he and Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, decided to create a programming language for their new microprocessor that time, the Intel 8008. Thinking that it was not powerful enough, Paul Allen and Bill Gates decided to use that language for the installation of a traffic management system. They founded on this occasion the Traf-O-Data company and decided to market this product to municipalities.

His first company was Traf-O-Data, the objective of which was ‘to read the raw data from roadway traffic counters and create reports for traffic engineers‘. In this way, the company would optimize traffic and end road congestion.

The company’s product was the Traf-O-Data 8008, a device which could read traffic tapes and process the data. They first tried to sell the processing service to the local County, but their first demo failed because the machine ‘didn’t work’, recalled Gates.

Unfortunately, this first experience was a terrible failure for both entrepreneurs.

The Lesson

His partner, Paull Allen, summarised the experience for exactly what it was: ‘Even though Traf-O-Data wasn’t a roaring success, it was seminal in preparing us to make Microsoft’s first product a couple of years later’

And happily, that’s exactly what they did. They kept on going and Microsoft became the largest personal-computer software company in the world. But it’s still nice to know that even the richest philanthropist in the world can make business blunders.

This commercial failure was greatly disappointed that Bill Gates was nevertheless persuaded to have THE good idea that would revolutionize the market.

Bounce back from failure

However, as contradictory as it may seem, this failure has transformed their lives and future prospects of Traf-O-Data. Interviewed about it, Paul Allen says he met many failures, but insists that this experience it was the most rewarding because it confirmed that every failure contains the seeds for later success. He explained that this bankruptcy has strengthened their belief and idea that microprocessors would perform the same programs as supercomputers and at much lower cost.

Every failure is therefore an education and this fiasco has rightly allowed the founders to make way for the successor to the Intel 8008: 8080. Ten times more powerful than its

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predecessor, it was the first high-level language designed to function on a microprocessor. Its small price compared to supercomputers made of it a tool used by the common man. This step was decisive in their careers and in the evolution phase of their company in November 1976 to become "Microsoft".

conclusion

What can we gain from this story? Simply that failure can often lead to a better fit of any future strategy. Bill Gates explained that "success is a poor instructor, he smart people believe they can never be wrong." Contrary to popular belief, errors can advance and sometimes better rebound. It is therefore necessary to take risks "smart" thoughtful risk which can, as in case, forever change the course of a life both professionally and privately.

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Bill gates strategy, key to success

The popular myth is that Bill Gates is a visionary. He foresaw his MS-DOS operating system as a goldmine, and he tricked IBM, the biggest computer company on earth, into letting him retain the copyright. Microsoft software still dominates the desktop more than 30 years after Gates helped launch the personal computer revolution. 

This story fits with the widely-held notion that coming up with a "big idea" is what it takes to accomplish a lot, and become very wealthy.

Though most people I surveyed for my forthcoming book, Business Brilliant also hold this belief, an important subset do not. The most successful, the ones who have become enormously wealthy, know better. They say that success requires extraordinary execution on an ordinary idea.Indeed, if you look more closely at the details of Bill Gates' entrepreneurial life, you'll find it supports the latter point, too.

Gates took Microsoft to the top by executing brilliantly, and always in service of other people's visions, never his own. By parlaying his way through a series of ever-bigger business deals--all with fairly ordinary products--he went from zero to billions in less than a decade.

Here are the three critical ways Bill Gates aced execution:

Strategic ActingRather than merely innovating or dreaming, Gates took a disciplined approach toward software as a potential source of business opportunities.

He and his partner Paul Allen wrote the first version of Microsoft BASIC just to get in on the ground floor with a pioneer maker of home-built computer kits. Gates quit Harvard and moved to New Mexico to work with the company, named MITS, hoping to make Microsoft BASIC an industry standard. A few years later, Gates and Allen made similar moves to get close to Digital Research, then the leading maker of the most popular PC operating system. They even marketed a translator that allowed Digital Research software to work on Apple computers, as a strategic move to ride on Digital Research's coattails.

Microsoft's ties to Digital Research led directly to its big opportunity, with IBM. When IBM couldn't get Digital Research to provide an operating system for IBM's new PC project, Gates was there to volunteer for the job.  It didn't matter that Microsoft had no expertise in operating systems.

Strategic positioning, as well as a little luck--not some "big idea"--gave Gates the opportunity to make billions with MS-DOS for IBM.

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Powerful Partnerships

Gates was never too proud to be the second banana. Like a true entrepreneur, Gates saw the "structural holes" in the personal computing marketplace and moved in to occupy them, always in a subordinate spot to the big players.

First Gates positioned Microsoft as the junior partner to the pioneering MITS, and then served in a similar junior-partner role with industry leader Digital Research. The little-known version of Microsoft's marriage to IBM is that Gates started out as an ardent matchmaker between Digital Research and IBM. Gates eagerly tried to bring the two giants together, content to be the second-class software in a marriage between big players. But when Digital Research and IBM couldn't tie the knot, Gates stepped into the void, fearing that IBM might quit the PC project altogether. No matter what, Gates respected IBM's potential power in the PC market and wanted to be a part of it.

The irony is that by the time Gates had gone on to become the richest man on earth, the first two of his "senior" partners were long gone and forgotten. The third, IBM, stopped making PCs in 2004.

And, by the way, Gates never duped his partner IBM into letting him keep the licensing rights to MS-DOS. IBM's policy was to not hold the rights for any product developed outside its doors, for fear of legal liability. Gates got the same deal on licensing that IBM would have given to Digital Research or anyone else.

Ferocious Tenacity

Gates always helped his partners succeed on their terms, not his own. With MS-DOS, timing was IBM's paramount concern. Missed deadlines might cause IBM higher-ups to pull the plug on the PC project, but Microsoft had only a few months to produce the software. So Microsoft took a quick-and-dirty shortcut. It bought the rights to a PC operating system made by another Seattle software company, and built MS-DOS on top of it. Gates later admitted it would have taken a year for Microsoft to create MS-DOS from scratch.

IBM was notoriously hard on its vendors. During the development phase of MS-DOS, buttoned-down IBM executives hounded Microsoft employees on security breaches and little procedural details. It drove Gates' team members nuts and they compared working with IBM to "riding the bear." But Gates persisted and told his team to suck it up. MS-DOS was delivered on time.

At first, the software was so buggy that IBM engineers had to rewrite the entire thing. But the point is that Gates did what the partner needed. It didn't matter if MS-DOS was a shoddy operating system based on someone else's design. It came in on time and preserved the project. Rather than vision, and certainly not pride of workmanship, Gates was all about execution.

That's the Gates method: Act strategically, partner powerfully, and "ride the bear."

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Bill gates greatest achievements and success

1 .Inspiring the era of the home computer

During the late 1960s, Bill Gates and his school friend Paul Allen learnt the BASIC programming language whilst studying at Lakeside School in Seattle.

BASIC's popularity stemmed from the fact that it was simple to use for beginners, but had functionality that could be stretched by advanced coders.

While BASIC was designed in 1963, it wasn't until Gates and Allen produced a version for the Altair 8800 that it really started to fly. In 1975, the two sold the code to MITS for $3,000.

BASIC sparked the home computing boom of the 1980s, appearing on the IBM PC, Commodore VIC-20, BBC Micro and the Apple II (to name but a few).

2. Commercialising the Launching Windows 95operating system

Gates and Allen founded Microsoft in 1976. In 1980, the company inked a landmark deal with IBM to produce an operating system for its up-and-coming personal computer (PC). Microsoft bought 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products, a Disk Operating System designed for 8086-based computers.

It used the 86-DOS code as the basis for IBM's first PC OS, which became known as PC-DOS. When clones of IBM's PC started to appear, Microsoft pushed their own version of PC-DOS, MS-DOS, to system builders.

3. Launching Windows 95

When you look back at the career of Bill Gates, it's easy to focus on Microsoft's biggest product – Windows. You can now find versions of Windows on around 90 per cent of the world's computers.

It powers business servers, mobile phones, PDAs, cash machines, retail displays, set-top boxes and old Sega Dreamcast consoles. Windows is everywhere. Windows 95 was arguably the game-changer.

The original Windows 1.0 OS was a effectively a graphical version of MS-DOS, born to compete against the GUI on Apple's 'Lisa'. In comparison, Windows 95 was designed to replace MS-DOS and enabled revolutionary features such as multi-tasking and Plug and Play.

4. Becoming the richest man in the worldBill Gates became the richest man on the planet at the age of 39. He stayed at number one on the Forbes list of the World's Richest People until 2007.

According to Wikipedia, Bill Gates was worth more than $101 billion in 1999; while Wired reports that, when Microsoft stock hit a high in 1996, Gates was earning $30 million a day.

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He's now third on the Forbes list (behind his friend Warren Buffet and Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim Helu) with an estimated fortune of $58 billion.

5. Giving his money away

As Bill Gates clocks out of his day job at Microsoft, the world will arguably be a better place for it. Inspired by the work of John D Rockefeller, Gates and his wife Melinda head up the charitable behemoth that is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

In 2006, Warren Buffet gifted $31 billion to the Foundation, which already had over $30 billion of Gates' own money in its coffers. In 2007 alone, the Foundation spent over $2 billion on global education and health initiatives.

Conclusion

To be a successful entrepreneur, Bill has some special characteristics. Firstly, he has a very broad vision. Since the first day he found out about his future work with computer, Bill has dreamed about “having a personal computer in every desk and Microsoft software for each and every computer”. He built his Empire around this vision and still continues working on it. Secondly, Bill is a person with high passionate. To follow his interest in computer and software, he dared to drop out of studying in Harvard University, a famous university that every single student would have wanted to be part of. His passion is one of the reasons to make him the richest man of the world. Bill is an intelligence person. It helped him to attain top position in the profession he chooses. Furthermore, he is also very intelligence to choose the way and chance to be successes. He knows how to borrow the idea, or even workforce from competitors to perfect his product. The symbolized evidences are MS-DOS and Windows.  Bill Gates is not only intelligence but also a hard working man. In his college days, he used to work all night long on his computer. When Microsoft was started, Bill used to sleep only 6 hours per day without skipping a single day of office. Hard working is one of the major keys for his success.  Gates is known as a IT architecture, however, his communication skill is also a key to success. He take an important role as a sale man for MS-DOS, and also through communication, he convinced many talents to work for him hardly and faithfully.

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http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/in-focus-bill-gates-five-greatest-achievements-409392

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7464074.stm

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0309540/bio

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/fail-to-succeed-billionaires/

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