For other people named Bill Gates see Bill Gates (disambiguation). Bill Gates Bill Gates at the World Economic Forum in Davos 2007 Born October 28 1955 (1955-10-28) (age 55) Seattle Washington U.S. Residence Medina Washington U.S. Nationality American Alma mater Harvard University (dropped out in 1975) Occupation Chairman of Microsoft Chairman of Corbis Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Director of Berkshire Hathaway CEO of Cascade Investment Net worth US$56 billion (2011)1 Religion Agnostic2 Spouse Melinda Gates (m. 1994present) start: (1994)"Marriage: Melinda Gates to Bill Gates" Location: (linkback:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BillGates) Children 3 Parents William H. Gates Sr. Mary Maxwell Gates Signature Website Bill Gates

William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28 1955)3 is an American business magnate philanthropist author and chairman of Microsoft the software company he founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people4 and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009 excluding 2008 when he was ranked third.5 During his career at Microsoft Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect and remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8 percent of the common stock.6 He has also authored or co-authored several books.

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Although he is admired by many a number of industry insiders criticize his business tactics which they consider anti-competitive an opinion which has in some cases been upheld by the courts.78 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.

Gates stepped down as chief executive officer of Microsoft in January 2000. He remained as chairman and created the position of chief software architect. 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 chief software architect and Craig Mundie chief research and strategy officer. Gates' last full-time day at Microsoft was June 27 2008. He remains at Microsoft as non-executive chairman. Contents 1 Early life 2 Microsoft 2.1 BASIC 2.2 IBM partnership 2.3 Windows 2.4 Management style 2.5 Antitrust litigation 2.6 Appearance in ads 3 Post-Microsoft 4 Personal life 4.1 Philanthropy 4.2 Recognition 4.3 Investments 5 Bibliography 6 Filmography 7 See also 7.1 Books 8 References 9 Further reading 10 External links Early life

Gates was born in Seattle Washington to William H. Gates Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates of English German and Scotch-Irish descent.910 His family was upper middle class; his father was a prominent lawyer his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way and her father J. W. Maxwell was a national bank president. Gates has one elder sister Kristi (Kristianne) and one younger sister Libby. He was the fourth of his name in his family but was known as William Gates III or "Trey" because his father had dropped his own "III" suffix.11 Early on in his life Gates' parents had a law career in mind for him.12 When Gates was young his family regularly attended a Congregational church.131415

At 13 he enrolled in the Lakeside School an exclusive preparatory school.16 When he was in the eighth grade the Mothers Club at the school used proceeds from Lakeside School's rummage sale to buy an ASR-33 Teletype terminal and a block of computer time on a General Electric (GE) computer for the school's students.17 Gates took an interest in programming the GE system in BASIC and was excused from math classes to pursue his interest. He wrote his first computer program on this machine: an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer. Gates was fascinated by the machine and how it would always execute software code perfectly. When he reflected back on that moment he said "There was just something neat about the machine."18 After the Mothers Club donation was exhausted he and other students sought time on systems including DEC PDP minicomputers. One of these systems was a PDP-10 belonging to Computer Center Corporation (CCC) which banned four Lakeside studentsGates Paul Allen Ric Weiland and Kent Evansfor the summer after it caught them exploiting bugs in the operating system to obtain free computer time.19

At the end of the ban the four students offered to find bugs in CCC's software in exchange for computer time. Rather than use the system via teletype Gates went to CCC's offices and studied source code for various programs that ran on the system including programs in FORTRAN LISP and machine language. The arrangement with CCC continued until 1970 when the company went out of business. The following year Information Sciences Inc. hired the four Lakeside students to write a payroll program in COBOL providing them computer time and royalties. After his administrators became aware of his programming abilities Gates wrote the school's computer program to schedule students in classes. He modified the code so that he was placed in classes with mostly female students. He later stated that "it was hard to tear myself away from a machine at which I could so unambiguously demonstrate success."18 At age 17 Gates formed a venture with Allen called Traf-O-Data to make traffic counters based on the Intel 8008 processor.20 In early 1973 Bill Gates served as a congressional page in the U.S. House of Representatives.21

Gates graduated from Lakeside School in 1973. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT22 and enrolled at Harvard College in the autumn of 1973.23 While at Harvard he met Steve Ballmer who later succeeded Gates as CEO of Microsoft.

In his sophomore year Gates devised an algorithm for pancake sorting as a solution to one of a series of unsolved problems24 presented in a combinatorics class by Harry Lewis one of his professors. Gates' solution held the record as the fastest version for over thirty years;2425 its successor is faster by only one percent.24 His solution was later formalized in a published paper in collaboration with Harvard computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou.26

Gates did not have a definite study plan while a student at Harvard27 and spent a lot of time using the school's computers. He remained in contact with Paul Allen joining him at Honeywell during the summer of 1974.28 The following year saw the release of the MITS Altair 8800 based on the Intel 8080 CPU and Gates and Allen saw this as the opportunity to start their own computer software company.29 He had talked this decision over with his parents who were supportive of him after seeing how much Gates wanted to start a company.27 Microsoft Main articles: History of Microsoft and Microsoft BASIC MITS Altair 8800 Computer with 8-inch (200 mm) floppy disk system After reading the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics that demonstrated the Altair 8800 Gates contacted Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) the creators of the new microcomputer to inform them that he and others were working on a BASIC interpreter for the platform.30 In reality Gates and Allen did not have an Altair and had not written code for it; they merely wanted to gauge MITS's interest. MITS president Ed Roberts agreed to meet them for a demo and over the course of a few weeks they developed an Altair emulator that ran on a minicomputer and then the BASIC interpreter. The demonstration held at MITS's offices in Albuquerque was a success and resulted in a deal with MITS to distribute the interpreter as Altair BASIC. Paul Allen was hired into MITS31 and Gates took a leave of absence from Harvard to work with Allen at MITS in Albuquerque in November 1975. They named their partnership "Micro-Soft" and had their first office located in Albuquerque.31 Within a year the hyphen was dropped and on November 26 1976 the trade name "Microsoft" was registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico.31 Gates never returned to Harvard to complete his studies. Microsoft's BASIC was popular with computer hobbyists but Gates discovered that a pre-market copy had leaked into the community and was being widely copied and distributed. In February 1976 Gates wrote an Open Letter to Hobbyists in the MITS newsletter saying that MITS could not continue to produce distribute and maintain high-quality software without payment.32 This letter was unpopular with many computer hobbyists but Gates persisted in his belief that software developers should be able to demand payment. Microsoft became independent of MITS in late 1976 and it continued to develop programming language software for various systems.31 The company moved from Albuquerque to its new home in Bellevue Washington on January 1 1979.30 During Microsoft's early years all employees had broad responsibility for the company's business. Gates oversaw the business details but continued to write code as well. In the first five years he personally reviewed every line of code the company shipped and often rewrote parts of it as he saw fit.33 IBM partnership In 1980 IBM approached Microsoft to write the BASIC interpreter for its upcoming personal computer the IBM PC. When IBM's representatives mentioned that they needed an operating system Gates referred them to Digital Research (DRI) makers of the widely used CP/M operating system.34 IBM's discussions with Digital Research went poorly and they did not reach a licensing agreement. IBM representative Jack Sams mentioned the licensing difficulties during a subsequent meeting with Gates and told him to get an acceptable operating system. A few weeks later Gates proposed using 86-DOS (QDOS) an operating system similar to CP/M that Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products (SCP) had made for hardware similar to the PC. Microsoft made a deal with SCP to become the exclusive licensing agent and later the full owner of 86-DOS. After adapting the operating system for the PC Microsoft delivered it to IBM as PC-DOS in exchange for a one-time fee of $50000. Gates did not offer to transfer the copyright on the operating system because he believed that other hardware vendors would clone IBM's system.35 They did and the sales of MS-DOS made Microsoft a major player in the industry.36 Gates oversaw Microsoft's company restructuring on June 25 1981 which re-incorporated the company in Washington state and made Gates President of Microsoft and the Chairman of the Board.30 Windows Microsoft launched its first retail version of Microsoft Windows on November 20 1985 and in August the company struck a deal with IBM to develop a separate operating system called OS/2. Although the two companies successfully developed the first version of the new system mounting creative differences undermined the partnership. Gates distributed an internal memo on May 16 1991 announcing that the OS/2 partnership was over and Microsoft would shift its efforts to the Windows NT kernel development.37 Management style From Microsoft's founding in 1975 until 2006 Gates had primary responsibility for the company's product strategy. He aggressively broadened the company's range of products and wherever Microsoft achieved a dominant position he vigorously defended it. He gained a reputation for being distant to others; as early as 1981 an industry executive complained in public that "Gates is notorious for not being reachable by phone and for not returning phone calls."38 As an executive Gates met regularly with Microsoft's senior managers and program managers. Firsthand accounts of these meetings describe him as verbally combative berating managers for perceived holes in their business strategies or proposals that placed the company's long-term interests at risk.3940 He often interrupted presentations with such comments as "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard!"41 and "Why don't you just give up your options and join the Peace Corps"42 The target of his outburst then had to defend the proposal in detail until hopefully Gates was fully convinced.41 When subordinates appeared to be procrastinating he was known to remark sarcastically "I'll do it over the weekend."434445 Gates's role at Microsoft for most of its history was primarily a management and executive role. However he was an active software developer in the early years particularly on the company's programming language products. He has not officially been on a development team since working on the TRS-80 Model 10046 but wrote code as late as 1989 that shipped in the company's products.44 On June 15 2006 Gates announced that he would transition out of his day-to-day role over the next two years to dedicate more time to philanthropy. He divided his responsibilities between two successors placing Ray Ozzie in charge of day-to-day management and Craig Mundie in charge of long-term product strategy.47 Antitrust litigation Further information: United States Microsoft antitrust case and European Union Microsoft competition case Bill Gates giving his deposition at Microsoft on August 27 1998 Many decisions that led to antitrust litigation over Microsoft's business practices have had Gates' approval. In the 1998 United States v. Microsoft case Gates gave deposition testimony that several journalists characterized as evasive. He argued with examiner David Boies over the contextual meaning of words like "compete" "concerned" and "we".48 BusinessWeek reported: Early rounds of his deposition show him offering obfuscatory answers and saying 'I don't recall' so many times that even the presiding judge had to chuckle. Worse many of the technology chief's denials and pleas of ignorance were directly refuted by prosecutors with snippets of e-mail Gates both sent and received.49 Gates later said that he had simply resisted attempts by Boies to mischaracterize his words and actions. As to his demeanor during the deposition he said "Did I fence with Boies ... I plead guilty. Whatever that penalty is should be levied against me: rudeness to Boies in the first degree."50 Despite Gates's denials the judge ruled that Microsoft had committed monopolization and tying and blocking competition both in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.50 Appearance in ads Gates appeared in a series of ads to promote Microsoft in 2008. The first commercial co-starring Jerry Seinfeld is a 90-second talk between strangers as Seinfeld walks up on a discount shoe store (Shoe Circus) in a mall and notices Gates buying shoes inside. The salesman is trying to sell Mr. Gates shoes that are a size too big. As Gates is buying the shoes he holds up his discount card which uses a slightly altered version of his own mugshot of his arrest in New Mexico in 1977 for a traffic violation.51 As they are walking out of the mall Seinfeld asks Gates if he has melded his mind to other developers after getting a yes he then asks if they are working on a way to make computers edible again getting a yes. Some say that this is an homage to Seinfeld's own show about "nothing" (Seinfeld).52 In a second commercial in the series Gates and Seinfeld are at the home of an average family trying to fit in with normal people. Post-Microsoft Since leaving Microsoft Gates continues his philanthropy and among other projects purchased the video rights to the Messenger Lectures series called The Character of Physical Law given at Cornell University by Richard Feynman in 1964 and recorded by the BBC. The videos are available online to the public at Microsoft's Project Tuva.5354 In April 2010 Gates was invited to visit and speak at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he asked the students to take on the hard problems of the world in their futures.5556 Personal life Bill and Melinda Gates June 2009. Gates married Melinda French from Dallas Texas on January 1 1994. They have three children: daughter Jennifer Katharine Gates born 1996 (age 1415) son Rory John Gates born 1999 (age 1112) and daughter Phoebe Adele Gates born 2002 (age 89). The Gates' home is an earth-sheltered house in the side of a hill overlooking Lake Washington in Medina. According to King County public records as of 2006 the total assessed value of the property (land and house) is $125 million and the annual property tax is $991000. His 66000 sq ft (6100 m2) estate has a 60-foot (18 m) swimming pool with an underwater music system as well as a 2500 sq ft (230 m2) gym and a 1000 sq ft (93 m2) dining room.57 Also among Gates's private acquisitions is the Codex Leicester a collection of writings by Leonardo da Vinci which Gates bought for $30.8 million at an auction in 1994.58 Gates is also known as an avid reader and the ceiling of his large home library is engraved with a quotation from The Great Gatsby.59 He also enjoys playing bridge tennis and golf.6061 Gates was number one on the Forbes 400 list from 1993 through to 2007 and number one on Forbes list of The World's Richest People from 1995 to 2007 and 2009. In 1999 Gates's wealth briefly surpassed $101 billion causing the media to call him a "centibillionaire".62 Since 2000 the nominal value of his Microsoft holdings has declined due to a fall in Microsoft's stock price after the dot-com bubble burst and the multi-billion dollar donations he has made to his charitable foundations. In a May 2006 interview Gates commented that he wished that he were not the richest man in the world because he disliked the attention it brought.63 Gates has several investments outside Microsoft which in 2006 paid him a salary of $616667 and $350000 bonus totalling $966667.64 He founded Corbis a digital imaging company in 1989. In 2004 he became a director of Berkshire Hathaway the investment company headed by long-time friend Warren Buffett.65 In March 2010 Bill Gates was bumped down to the 2nd wealthiest man behind Carlos Slim. Philanthropy Gates (second from right) with Bono Queen Rania of Jordan Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown President Umaru Yar'Adua of Nigeria and other participants in a 'Call to Action on the Millennium Development Goals' during the Annual Meeting 2008 of the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland. Further information: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Gates began to appreciate the expectations others had of him when public opinion mounted suggesting that he could give more of his wealth to charity. Gates studied the work of Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller and in 1994 sold some of his Microsoft stock to create the William H. Gates Foundation. In 2000 Gates and his wife combined three family foundations into one to create the charitable Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation which is the largest transparently operated charitable foundation in the world.66 The foundation allows benefactors access to information regarding how its money is being spent unlike other major charitable organizations such as the Wellcome Trust.6768 The generosity and extensive philanthropy of David Rockefeller has been credited as a major influence. Gates and his father met with Rockefeller several times and modeled their giving in part on the Rockefeller family's philanthropic focus namely those global problems that are ignored by governments and other organizations.69 As of 2007 Bill and Melinda Gates were the second-most generous philanthropists in America having given over $28 billion to charity.70 The foundation was at the same time criticized because it invests assets that it has not yet distributed with the exclusive goal of maximizing return on investment. As a result its investments include companies that have been charged with worsening poverty in the same developing countries where the Foundation is attempting to relieve poverty. These include companies that pollute heavily and pharmaceutical companies that do not sell into the developing world.71 In response to press criticism the foundation announced in 2007 a review of its investments to assess social responsibility.72 It subsequently canceled the review and stood by its policy of investing for maximum return while using voting rights to influence company practices.73 Gates's wife urged people to learn a lesson from the philanthropic efforts of the Salwen family which had sold its home and given away half of its value as detailed in The Power of Half.74 Gates and his wife invited Joan Salwen to Seattle to speak about what the family had done and on December 9 2010 Gates investor Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook's CEO) signed a promise they called the "Gates-Buffet Giving Pledge" in which they promised to donate to charity at least half of their wealth over the course of time.757677 Recognition In 1987 Gates was officially declared a billionaire in the pages of Forbes' 400 Richest People in America issue just days before his 32nd birthday. As the world's youngest self-made billionaire he was worth $1.25 billion over $900 million more than he'd been worth the year before when he'd debuted on the list.78 Time magazine named Gates one of the 100 people who most influenced the 20th century as well as one of the 100 most influential people of 2004 2005 and 2006. Time also collectively named Gates his wife Melinda and U2's lead singer Bono as the 2005 Persons of the Year for their humanitarian efforts.79 In 2006 he was voted eighth in the list of "Heroes of our time".80 Gates was listed in the Sunday Times power list in 1999 named CEO of the year by Chief Executive Officers magazine in 1994 ranked number one in the "Top 50 Cyber Elite" by Time in 1998 ranked number two in the Upside Elite 100 in 1999 and was included in The Guardian as one of the "Top 100 influential people in media" in 2001.81 In 1994 he was honoured as the twentieth Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society. Gates has received honorary doctorates from Nyenrode Business Universiteit Breukelen The Netherlands in 2000;82 the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm Sweden in 2002; Waseda University Tokyo Japan in 2005; Tsinghua University Beijing China in April 2007;83 Harvard University in June 2007;84 the Karolinska Institutet Stockholm in January 200885 and Cambridge University in June 2009.86 He was also made an honorary trustee of Peking University in 2007.87 Gates was also made an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 200588 in addition to having entomologists name the Bill Gates flower fly Eristalis gatesi in his honor.89 In November 2006 he and his wife were awarded the Order of the Aztec Eagle for their philanthropic work around the world in the areas of health and education particularly in Mexico and specifically in the program "Un pas de lectores".90 In October 2009 it was announced that Gates will be awarded the 2010 Bower Award for Business Leadership of The Franklin Institute for his achievements in business and for his philanthropic work. In 2010 he was honored with the Silver Buffalo Award by the Boy Scouts of America its highest award for adults for his service to youth.91 Investments Cascade Investments LLC a private investment and holding company incorporated in United States is controlled by Bill Gates and is headquartered in the city of Kirkland WA. bgC3 a new think-tank company founded by Bill Gates. Corbis a digital image licensing and rights services company. TerraPower a nuclear reactor design company. Bibliography Gates has authored two books: The Road Ahead (1995) Business @ the Speed of Thought (1999) Filmography Gates has appeared in at least one film: Waiting For Superman92 See also List of billionaires (also see List of college dropout billionaires and List of wealthiest non-inflated historical figures) Paul Allen  Microsoft's co-founder friend and fellow billionaire Gary Kildall (October 25 2004). "The Man Who Could Have Been Bill Gates". 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