William Henry "Bill" Gates III

Biography:



William Gates was born October 28, 1955. He was the first child and only son in a family of well-known lawyer from Seattle. His mother also held a prominent position in society. He had two younger sisters. Secondary education in private schools. Parents expect that he will follow his father and went to Harvard Law School. However, by the seventh grade, Bill Gates became interested in computers and wanted to become a professor of mathematics. When Bill Gates and his high school friend Paul Allen went to middle school, mothers' clubs Leyksaydskoy school collected money for the purchase of computers for the students. This has changed the life of Bill. He and Allen programming process so carried away that they could escape from the gym to play with the computer. According to Allen, they stay long in school until 4 in the morning, making the program, and spent at the computer all weekend.

Gates and Allen entered the world of business in fifteen years. They wrote a program to control the traffic and formed a company to its spread. It's called "Tref-0-Data". Their fate was such that they made on this project $ 20,000 and did not go to high school.

Experience in Albuquerque, was very important for their future work with "Apple", "IBM" , "Commodore" and other firms. Operating systems by "Microsoft", began in the late 1970s, the absolute leaders of computer technology. Magazine "Byte" wrote that cooperation Gates / Allen - "Uh-It-Es" become a legend computer industry, when the subject will be written the history books.

Business Story:


First steps "Microsoft" were full of danger and uncertainty. When Bill Gates and Allen moved to Albuquerque and began working for the "MITES", they cast their lot with the start-up company that could go under, as happened a few years. Bill Gates dropped out and devoted his future software industry. After the "MITES" bankrupt, they moved their barely-formed company in Seattle and developed relationships with several other startups, producing programs for them to "BASIC". In the late 1970s there was a collapse of these bankruptcies startups. "Microsoft" could find no real support in the market until 1977, when the contract with the "Apple" to produce software for the "Apple-2".

Bill Gates and Allen were very enterprising entrepreneurs. They have created a licensing program for many firms, the breakdown on the market in the late 1970s - early 1980s, and involved in the release of new home computers. By July 1980, when the "IBM" has finally decided that it was time to enter the PC market, "Commodore", "Reid Shek" and "Apple" is already used by the operating system by "Microsoft". History is now the leading personal computer "IBM" began in August 1981.

Bill Gates urged "IBM" to allow him to write the software for the PC, created based on the new Intel 8088 microprocessor shestnadtsatibitnyh. In the process, he developed a system configuration that was used in the next generation of computers. "IBM" changed their projects and gave consent for the use of the proposed Bill Gates MPU-logic. In September 1980, it entered into a "Microsoft" detailed contract. This contract was destined to change the history of the personal computer industry. Both "IBM" and "Microsoft", have benefited. The controversial question of who has won more. Gates' main competitor - "Digital Research" - changed the course of business and no longer participated in the competition. Bill Gates has received the most lucrative contract in the history of computers. Developed "IBM" program did not have the slightest demand and, thus, "Microsoft" with its MS-DOS, was the only one.

Bill Gates has retained the right to sell MS-DOS to other users, including competitors' IBM. " "Big Blue" is not seen in the risk and actually helped, because it was convinced that the threat to it is only the "Apple." "IBM" was self-confident and do not take into account the small firms that are able to buy the operating system from the "Microsoft." This strategy led "IBM" in the PC market, where it is dominated by the end of the eighties. She made Allen and Bill Gates billionaires. Bill Gates' father was proud of this fantastic enterprise, which has become a huge success. This contract was the first to "IBM" because she never trusted the creation of the operating system for its key products to another firm. This move has made a real shock to the industry, especially when you consider that before, "Apple" announced its software products individually owned. MS-DOS, the fruit of genius, luck and hard work of Bill Gates, brought the "Microsoft" billions of dollars.

The investigation, undertaken in 1991 by the Federal Trade Commission on trade and continues to this day, can result in the section "Microsoft" into two divisions, one of which will produce operating systems, and more - applications. Monopolistic position the "Microsoft" in the 1980 scare and industry, and government. Competitors "Microsoft" saw in its section which opens the possibility of more effective competition and welcome the help of the government, in general, it is unnatural for business.

"Microsoft" is clearly dominant in the industry - it owns 44 per cent of all profits software market. It interferes with the growth of their closest competitors. Dimensions "Microsoft" is two times the size of "Lotus" and "Borland" together. "Microsoft", even more than any of the major companies involved in the programming of large electronic computers. Mitch Kepor, creator of "Lotus", concedes the market of software products, "Microsoft." In 1991, he told reporters: "The revolution is over. Gates won. Current software industry - is the kingdom of the dead."

Magazine "People" Gates said of the true embodiment of the entrepreneur-innovator. He said: "Gates of programming means the same as in relation to the Edison light bulb: part innovator, part entrepreneur, part salesman, but always a genius." "Playboy" to all the praises Bill Gates, in 1991, added a story in which "Microsoft" is mentioned as the savior of the software industry. "The role of DOS as a unified component of most PCs, has helped to strengthen the position of the U.S. as the epicenter of the global software industry."

"Forbes" in April 1991, Bill Gates put a picture on the cover and asked, "Can anyone stop him?" This contained some prophecy - soon some of the most ardent competitors combined its efforts in order to reset the "Microsoft" from the rail. Shortly after the publication of "IBM" and "Apple" - two fiercest rival in the 1980s - to join in this ritual, which is perhaps the most determined attempt to stop Bill Gates - from ever being made.



Conclusion:


Bill Gates has earned more money than anyone in the history of the business to his age. According to the classification of "Forbes" and "USA Today" has, published in 1992, Bill Gates - the richest man in America today, and his condition is more than $ 7 billion. On the shore of Lake Washington, he built an estate which cost him 10 million dollars. and which includes 45,800 square meters. feet of living space, a library with 14,000 books, a dining room for 100 people, a swimming pool, theater, tennis courts for a game of volleyball and reketboll, underground garage for twenty machines and a 350-foot pond for its high-speed boats. Not bad for thirty years with little bachelor who spends very little time at home. Mitch Kapor, founder of the "Lotus", Bill Gates made an exceptional compliment: "When the history books are written," Microsoft "will be recognized as" Standard Oylom "post-industrial empire, and Bill will take place, which he held in Rockefeller XIX century".

Sure, a miracle "Microsoft" was the result of a passionate dedication of Bill Gates and his ability to instill the desire in others. Roe, extensive research was outstanding personalities of people came to the conclusion: "Creativity is not a result of a sudden inspiration, visiting ideal mind and ideal hands, and the result of hard work of a single-minded person." But she has never met Bill Gates.

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  1. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs started their business together. How do you think why they broke up business relationship?

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    1. Because they have their own ways to achieve Success!! No matter they are together or separate!!

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