Bill Gates

His life

Born in Seattle , Washington, on October 28, 1955). His parents , William Gates and Mary Maxwell Gates. Gates has a sister work ( Cristani ) and junior sister ( Libby ) . The Whipple Gates was the fourth of his family name "IIII", but knew William Gates III (III), because his father left his title as the third ( III ) who is of Irish origin - Scottish ( British ) . Bill Gates was born into a Protestant family belong to the Church of Alabrchanah

Child Bill grew up in a family with a long history Balachtgal in politics, business and social service . The work of the father of - grandfather conservative and a member of the state legislature , and the work of his grandfather vice president of the National Bank , and his father was a prominent lawyer . His mother also held a managerial position at the University of Washington, and was a prominent member of the boards of local organizations and banks. For it was not surprising that shows the child Bill intelligence , ambition and the spirit of competition early on, was superior to his colleagues in elementary school , especially in math and science, has realized his parents intelligence early , prompting them to reassign school Lakeside (Lakeside) private and known their environment academic excellence , and it was this decision 's impact on the lives and future of the Bill , in this school know Bill on the computer for the first time .

His first computer

In the spring of 1968 , I decided to School Lakeside buy a computer to identify students a world of Computing , and the computers at that time is still large and expensive, could not the school afford to buy a computer , for that decided the school users purchased the duration of a specific time Maternal Council organized a donation campaign at school through which collect a few thousand dollars for this purpose.

Associated with students with computers the company through the system - multi-user (Time-Sharing System) via the phone line at the school ; and it was necessary to provide a school for students organ Partyaa (Terminal) , students from which to download the software even be sent over the phone line to the computer company , where there is a treatment process and then send the results to students via the phone line again. And again bear the expense of buying mothers Council peripheral device of the type ( ASR - 33 ) are fed information through a paper tape yellow in color.

And from that moment became Bill passionate computer - and was then a student in the eighth grade at the age of 13 years [6 ] - has spent the majority of his time in the computer room at the school busily typing programs and applied so that he neglected his duties and absent from the ranks school sometimes. In this room know Bill Paul Allen ( Paul Allen ) , another student who shared his passion and concern in computers, and in a short time has grown between them and the close friendship that lasted for many years. The students consumed the amount of time allocated to them in record time ! The mothers were unable to afford any additional expenses , pushed them to think of another source provides them with free accounts and a time unlimited .

Agreed school later that year with a local company known as the Computer Center Corporation - CCC to provide students with more time allocated on the computer, and the system of this company works on a computer of the type (PDP-10), and accept the Bill and the rest of the students on this computer eagerly and were curious toward his regime , was not long until they started to raise problems. Has caused students to disrupt the system several times, and were able to break the protection system on the computer, as they adjust their accounts files for a longer period of time to use the computer, prompting the company of denying them to use the system for several weeks !

After the expiration of the term of deprivation directed four of the school's students is Bill Gates , Paul Allen , Rick Leland (Ric Weiland), and I Evans (Kent Evans) to a company CCC, and gave a presentation requires that assist the company in finding a system errors that have caused violations by students against the company that gives them a free time and unlimited use of the system . Since the company has tired of system crashes and repeated breach , and agreed to their request and decided to give them this opportunity .

Provided this opportunity to set the possibility of studying the system software , and gained experience software and extensive programming languages ​​were common at the time , such as BASIC (BASIC), Fortran FORTRAN), Lisp (LISP), and even the language of the machine (Machine Language) as they have produced some of the programs Games .

Starting toward the profession of Age

In 1970, CCC company faced financial problems led her to close its doors in March of that year. The group began a new search for granted an opportunity to computer use , Fovr them the father of Paul Allen a chance to use some of the computers the University of Washington where he worked. But the group did not stop at this point , it was in dire need for those who granted the opportunity to show their skills computer , and after one year and hired a group by (. Information Sciences Inc), to write a program to calculate the salaries of employees of the company using the programming language COBOL (COBOL). For the first time students got a profit-making for their inimitable talent . In addition , the Group granted rights of ownership on their programs , and was recognized legally .

Achieved this small company a profit of U.S. $ 20,000 in its first year , and Bill was then at the secondary level , and the company continued to work until the entry Bill university.

In the fall of 1973, joined the Bill at Harvard University, was not at the time had decided after the type of study they wish it, enrolled Law School preliminary experiment, but his heart was still pending computer ; was spend the night awake in front of the computer in the laboratories of the university and then spend the day sleeping in the classroom. His friend Paul Allen has also attended Harvard University , and were continuously meeting watch thinking about the future and dream projects for the development of software and operating systems.

One day in the month of December of the year 1974, and while he was Paul Allen on his way to visit his friend Bill stopped in front of a small shop to keep some of the magazines , and he signed a look at the magazine (Popular Electronics) where he appeared on the cover picture of a computer "Altair 8800", and wrote under the file: " first computer intended for commercial purposes , " Paul bought the magazine and quickly set out to see Bill . The two realized that this computer carries with major Frsthma and which has long been a dream . Within days Contact Bell company Mets (Micro Instrumentation & Telemetry System - MITS) the manufacturer of the computer "Altair 8800", and told them that he has developed is his colleague Paul Allen ( the translator) of the computer writing the programming language BASIC "Altair BASIC - interpreter".

This has been a big lie ! ! It was not Bill and Allen had books line by programmatically one for this computer did not Ichehadah only in pictures magazine just did not even Intel 8080 that runs it , but the company agreed to and experimenting with the new system , which pushed them to start working quickly to write the program. The process of writing a program is the responsibility of Bill Gates , while Paul Allen began working on finding a way to work a computer simulation of the "Altair 8800" on the computers , " PDP - 10 " are available on campus to try the software. After eight weeks of continuous work ( almost in mid-February 1975 ), the two felt that their program has become ready , Fastql the Paul Allen plane heading to the Mets to view the program.

At a meeting held at the Mets and the presence of company president Ed Robert (Ed Robert) Paul Download the program on the computer , " Altair 8800 " , and began the process of running the program for the first time real . O wonder! ! The program has worked smoothly and without any errors , and sat Paul of this great achievement , and contact Bill to wed him the good news .

METS contracted directly with both Bill and Paul to buy the property rights of the program, and Paul Allen was appointed vice president of software in the company. In contrast Bill left Harvard University and moved on to work with Paul in the development of software; has two realized that the future lies in the software market and that they that Atsdra this path.

  

 The birth of Microsoft Corporation(Microsoft)

In mid- 1975 , after the great success achieved by both Bill Gates and Paul Allen with the Mets , he decided the two establishment of a special partnership between them for the development of programs , has been renamed "Micro-Soft" and constitute this name from the words "Microcomputer" and "Software". Bill Gates owned 60% of the size of the company , while Paul Allen won the remaining 40 % , Bill protested for the largest share to the reordering of the work in the company , while Paul was still full-time employees with the company Mets. Exposure program translator (BASIC-interpreter) which was developed by Microsoft Corporation during this period of the theft and illegal copying by hackers , angering Bill Gates and pushed him to write a message to the pirates in the newspaper company Mets periodic "An Open Letter to Hobbyists", condemns theft and piracy and affirms the right of the programmer to get the price of his production through the sale of software. This resulted in the letter hostile reactions among piracy . In contrast, got Bill on many of the messages that carry suggestions to solve the problem of piracy , which included one of them put the program within the chip , " read-only memory (ROM)", and thus become lines of program engraved inside the chip of silicon , rather than enter into a computer through a paper tape , which makes the theft virtually impossible, and this was the perfect solution in the eyes of Bill Allen , and decided to apply it in the coming times .

By the end of 1976, Microsoft officially registered as an independent company , its profit amounted to approximately 104 thousand and U.S. $ 216 . And Paul Allen resigned from the Mets company to work full-time at Microsoft , and Microsoft continues to develop programs for different systems .

Partnership with Bam

In 1980 began the IBM Global (IBM - International Business Machine Company) project known as the Manhattan Project (Manhattan Project) for the manufacture of personal computers new known as the PC "IBM" to be used in offices and homes , the company needs to operating system for the new computer ; therefore contacted the Microsoft's trying to get on the system. But Microsoft Corp. were not possess an operating system ready in time, so she proposed operating system CP / M , which was developed by a company "Digital Research", and has already worked IBM's proposal to the Bill and directed by delegates from the company to interview Gary Kjeldahl (Gary Kildall) , founder of "Digital Research " but a quirk of fate that fails this meeting , it was not originally Gary Mtwajadda the time of the meeting, where he had boarded the plane on his way to meet another customer ! ! !

IBM and returned request the assistance of Bill Gates , and this time he decided to meet their needs and provide them with personally desired operating system . And he arose Bill Gates and Paul Allen bought full rights to the operating system ready QDOS (Quick & Dirty Operating System) from the developer of the system programmer Tim Patterson (Tim Paterson) , who was working then at Seattle Computer Products (Seattle Computer Products) compared to U.S. $ 50,000 - did not announce

In the partnership agreement , which was held between Microsoft and IBM , Bill Gates insisted that Microsoft be the exclusive provider of operating systems for each personal computer , a subsidiary of IBM, in the sense that IBM is prohibited from contracting with any other software company for the purchase of operating systems for their products. In contrast, the right of Microsoft Corporation retain full rights to develop and sell its own operating system for those who want to individuals or companies in an attempt to dominate the software market, and one of the positions amusing by reminding them that Bill Gates because he discovered who is going to the most important meeting of his life with IBM to make a deal sale that without a tie, he went to the market and delayed the meeting , says: " better to be late than to go without a tie " ..

And made ​​him the system attractive because it is selling at a fixed price and all without the allocation of the identity of the buyer - In the past, the operating systems are sold exclusively for a particular company to be run on devices such company only exclusively , but with the operating system MS-DOS has ended the time of monopoly and has become the software accessible to everyone - Bill Gates was through it aims to build a huge base of users of Microsoft products becomes thus the main supplier for all users. The programmed Tim Patterson resignation of Seattle Computer Products to become an employee of Microsoft Corporation.

On August 12 1981, IBM announced the official publication of the personal computer IBM PC.

In the wake of these events dispute broke out between Microsoft and Seattle Computer Products in which he accused both Bill Gates and Paul Allen to act in a manner contrary to professional ethics. When Qama to purchase the operating system "QDOS" from the Seattle company has never mention that they are in negotiations with IBM to develop its operating system . The Seattle company has filed a lawsuit on Microsoft Corporation on the basis of fraud and exploitation to complete the bargain through the hide important information on the nature of the relationship which has an IBM company . The case ended later through an out - of - court financial settlement between the two companies .

Paul Allen 's resignation

At the end of 1982, Paul Allen injured Hodgkin's disease , a type of rare types of cancer that affects the lymphatic system in the body. And impact on Paul Allen resigned from Microsoft to devote himself to the treatment , and thus leave Microsoft 's Paul Allen forever, but that did not prevent the continuation of the friendship that arose early between Lakeside buddy to this day.

The birth of Microsoft Windows and confrontation with Apple Inc. (Apple)

In the year 1985 produced Microsoft's first version of the operating system, Windows 1.0 (Microsoft Windows1.0), who used the application interface graphical (GUI) -inspired system (Xerox PARC) in addition to some parts of the interface are available in the regular Apple's Lisa and Mac ( has allowed Apple Inc. computer for Microsoft by using these parts based on the agreement took place between the two companies ). This system was an alternative to the operating system MS-DOS and a competitor to the other operating systems available in the market . This enabled the new system users to use the mouse , and move between several windows at the same time , while it contains a number of applications such as: Notepad (notepad), and yearly calendar , clock , and the calculator, in addition to the possibility of activating the operating system MS-DOS.

In 1987, the company has produced the second version of the Microsoft operating system, Windows 2.0 ( Windows 2.0 ) , and has added some improvements such as increased processing speed and increase the amount of RAM used . In addition to supporting the windows feature overlap (overlapping), which means the possibility of opening several windows on top of each other .

In the wake of the release of the second version of Windows, Apple filed a computer in 1988 filed a lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. accuses them of stealing some of the elements of a graphical application interface for Apple Macintosh computer and used in the Windows operating system . In 1990, after the company produced the third version of the Microsoft operating system, Windows 3.0 ( Windows 3.0 ) , said Apple's additional allegations of theft lawsuit jurisdiction .

The Apple computer (Apple Computer, Inc) is a leading company in the manufacture of computer hardware, operating systems , originated in the year 1976, and a variety of versions of personal computers such as Apple 1 (Apple I), and Apple 2 (Apple II), and Apple Lisa (Apple Lisa), and Apple Macintosh (Mac ) ((Apple Macintosh (Mac). and characterized these versions such as the Apple Lisa and Macintosh using the application interface is graphical (GUI), which show where the windows , icons , menus, and index directs using the mouse (mouse). has been used and the application interface GUI for the first time in system known as (Xerox PARC) in the early seventies , Apple has relied too much on this system for the development of the graphical interface of their own.

Claimed that Apple's lawsuit judiciary that Microsoft stole the form and content "look and feel" of the operating system McIntosh, Casthaddamha some properties of windows; possibility of opening on the desktop , resize, and Trakbha , and being rectangular in shape, and contains the address bar (title bar).

After a long debate in the case, the judge insisted that Apple offers a specific list of items stolen, the company introduced a list of 189 items. After studying this list judge decided that 179 of these elements was the right Microsoft used Based on the agreement , which was concluded between the two companies in 1985 , before the release of the first version of the Windows operating system . And the remaining ten elements does not belong to Apple that some was originally Mistoha of the Xerox system , and others representing only way to تعبيرعن a certain idea . And thus lost the Apple lawsuit judiciary , after four years (ie in 1992 ) of hot debate . Thinks some critics that Apple were not requests condemn Microsoft Corp. as it was hoped to control the design rights full facades application graphical each personal computers on the market, but their hopes failed, did not deter the resolve of Microsoft, but gave a boost to the front and fame additional He also contributed to the success of the third version of the Windows operating system , as Microsoft sold nearly 10 million copies of this system in the first two years , which began its doors to control the market for operating systems not only in the U.S. but worldwide . moved it to become the largest software in the world , and made ​​profits of Bill Gates the richest man in the world. Continued Microsoft year after year by issuing copies of successful Windows operating system like Windows 95 , Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP , but for Windows Vista did not receive such successes siblings. , The Company issued Windows 7 system in the twenty-second of October, 2009 , and impressions so far refers to accept an excellent majority of the system.

Successful versions of Microsoft

Microsoft has released over thirty years many innovative programs that have sprung up all over the world and won the admiration of millions of users. Perhaps the first thing that comes to mind when you mention the name of Microsoft's software package Office Office (Microsoft Office) issued for the first time in 1989 , and includes a range of applications such as the famous : the Word (Word) and Excel (Excel) and PowerPoint (Power Point) and others. In an attempt to share Internet revolution that has swept the world , Microsoft released a program popular Internet Explorer browser (Internet Explorer) in the year 1994 AD , which is currently used by about 80% of Internet users around the world. Also issued some basic applications such as : ActiveX , Microsoft SQL Server and the famous search engine MSN and then Microsoft has re- design of the engine and launched under the brand name Bing and a huge marketing campaign is estimated at $ 100 million.

And Microsoft issued electronic encyclopedia Encarta (Microsoft Encarta) in 1993 , and is available in seven languages, global, and includes approximately hundred thousand article with lots of pictures two-and three -dimensional sections comic illustrations and timelines , and is characterized encyclopedia high degree of accuracy , impartiality and as a result of the financial crisis that hit the whole world was forced to declare a Microsoft shut off to the Encarta Encyclopedia .

Also contributed to company Maikarsowic in the production of a lot of software famous or development and added some existing software such as : Microsoft Visual C + +, Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft FoxPro, Microsoft QuickBasic, Microsoft Visual InterDev, Microsoft Visual J + +, Microsoft Delta, and many others.

United States raise a lawsuit against the company

On May 18, 1998, raised the U.S. Department of Justice and 20 U.S. state civil case against Microsoft , accusing the software market monopoly in dealing with the sales of the Windows operating system and Internet browser . Internet Explorer

After the release of Microsoft's web browser Internet Explorer has when added to the Windows system to be sold two programs together in a single CD , describing the court act as a restriction ( unfairly ) of competition between Internet browsers different such as (Netscape Navigator) and (Opera) , which must be purchased separately the operating system , which means the user get a free browser from Microsoft, is preferred so buy the Windows version , which includes both versions to bear the cost of the operating system and the additional cost of the browser.

Received Microsoft that this process is a product of innovation and free competition , and that the operating system and browser represent now one unit and closely inevitable, Valmtcefh an additional feature of the operating system (feature) and not a product separately (product), and the user can now get the benefits of the browser for free it thus offering service to the buyer.

The browser is not free ( actually ) because the cost of production and marketing added to the cost of the Windows operating system , making the price high.

After a series of investigations and deliberations and sessions court issued a ruling on April 3, 2000, requires that Microsoft company monopoly and violating consumer protection laws against manipulation , fraud , and therefore Microsoft should be divided into two parts separate , one for the production of the Windows operating system and the other to produce versions of other software to Microsoft.

Microsoft shocked the sentence, and accused the judge of bias and lack of objectivity , and his rule restricts the freedom of competition and innovation, and resumed the Microsoft case . On November 2 , 2001 reached Microsoft's settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice required the decline Court for the partition resolution in exchange for Microsoft to disclose the elements of some of its programs (source code) to other companies to allow them to produce a competitor , giving markets computers more flexibility and prevents monopoly. Microsoft also shall allow advisers body composed of 3 persons appointed by the court access to Microsoft's systems , records and programs , to prevent any future attempts monopolies . Microsoft is committed to these restrictions a period of five years commencing from the date of signing the settlement.

Survived Microsoft from this ordeal , but it was the first Ghaith , it rained Microsoft later with a barrage of issues charge monopoly raised from companies and different bodies , the most recent case brought by the European Union (2007) , which was one of the results release Windows versions directed at Union countries without Media Player and Windows Media Player (Media Player) and also to consider the annexation Media Player to the type of operating system monopoly.

Personal side

Bill Gates married Melinda French (Melinda French) in 1994 and they had three children : Jennifer Katherine (1996 ) , Rory John (1999) , Phoebe Adele (2002). The family lives in a modern house is huge and costly overlooking Lake in Washington, DC . Since 1996 until 2006 , carrying Bill Gates the title of " the richest man in the world" , has estimated his fortune in 1999 to U.S. $ 100 billion has sat on the throne again in 2007 and still nicknamed so until 2007.

The Foundation also provided assistance to students studying in the form of scholarships , approximately U.S. $ 210 million to the University of Cambridge in 2000, and U.S. $ 1 for the Federation of American funded university students of African descent .

Estimated granting institution since its inception to now by U.S. $ 29 billion , Foundation has received several international awards in recognition of its efforts in the areas of health and education. The Bill Gates recently announced his intention to leave his position as head of Microsoft Corp. and work full time for the institution .

Download Bill Gates recently represents a new interest in improving education in the public schools of America . And appeared on several occasions and popular programs ( such as the Oprah Winfrey Show ) in an attempt to highlight the problem of poor academic achievement of public school students and make efforts to solve them.

Got Bill Gates on 4 honorary doctorates , the first from the University of Business (Nyenrode Business Universiteit) in the Netherlands in 2000, and the second from the Royal Institute of Technology (Royal Institute of Technology) in Sweden in 2002 , and the third from Waseda University (Waseda University) in Japan in 2005 , and the latter from Harvard University (Harvard University) in the United States in 2007.

Bill Gates , as happened in 2005 is also the title of Knight (Knighthood) from Britain's Queen Elizabeth II.

Bill Gates returned and finally got ( in 2007) and 30 years after leaving school a university degree in law from Harvard University. In Bill 's speech to graduates at a graduation ceremony he joked : " Finally, I 'm going to add a degree to my resume ." He also went on to his father , saying : Dad , I told you I will return and I will get my degree in one day ! !

Fortune

The cover of Time magazine Number 5 June 1995, which embodies the image Bill Gates Kjha and monopolist . He has written on the cover : "Lord of the universe ."

New image of Bill Gates as an actor for good in the cover of Vanity Fair magazine of June 2007

Gates is one of the most famous investors in the field of personal computers , despite having vast popularity [7 ] [8] However, the policy of the company is exposed to criticism on charges of anti - competitive , which sometimes led to the trial [9]. Follow Gates charitable endeavors , by supporting welfare centers and scientific research amounts of money through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , which opened in 2000.

According to Forbes magazine 's list of the world 's richest people , Bill Gates won first place between 1995 and 2007 and are now estimated fortune of U.S. $ 58 billion . But in 2008, its ranking fell to third place [ 10 ]

Years growing his fortune by Forbes magazine

1986 of $ 315 million .

1987 billion and a quarter of a billion .

1990 2 billion and a half .

199,514,800,000,000 ( first year ranked the richest man in the world ).

1997 40 billion .

1999 85 billion .

2000 63 billion ( falling due to the decline in the value of stocks ) .

2008 58 billion .

2009 according to Forbes , Bill Gates returned to the fore once again ahead of Warren Buffett Carlos Slim fortune estimated at 40 billion after losing 18 billion .

2010 has become Bill Gates in second place after Carlos Slim Helou net wealth is estimated at $ 53 billion .

Full-time for charity

In June 2008, is no longer Bill Gates is working well and fully as CEO of Microsoft Corporation, appointed his place as head of the company Steve Ballmer , who knew since the period of study at Harvard University, has become a functioning molecule of the company and decided to Gates full-time to his organization's charitable Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , the largest charity funded in the world and part of his fortune .