All @ Microsoft

Most Spammed person in the world

A student who Scored 1590 /1600 in SAT

Worlds Richest person without any degree to his name

First Person to Design an operating system

Journey Begins…. October 28 ,1955

William H. Gates, and Mary Maxwell Gates

Seattle, Washington

His father was an attorney in Seattle.

Bill was highly influenced by his mother who died some years ago.

Bill has two sisters - Kristi and Libby.

CHILDHOOD

Interested in Maths & Science

8 - Encyclopedia 11- Class clown 11-psycriartist Change in Behavior

SCHOOL & FIRST BUSINESS

Lakeside school Slow, cumbersome & Screen less computer by GEInseparable Paul Allen Tic-tac-toe $4000 - academic schedulingProgram - girls

FIRST BUSINESS contd..

1968- PDP 10 Hacking Fortran 1972-Traf-O-Data

(Measure & Analyze traffic)

Failed to Demonstrate 8008 Micro Processor

HARWARD

1590/1600 in Sat1973 HarwardPre-LawSpend whole Night & Slept in ClassMet Steve Ballmer1974-HoneyWellPaul force’s to start business

BOOK THAT CHANGED HIS LIFE

Popular Electronics"World's First Microcomputer Kit to Rival Commercial Models." Recognized the OpportunityFake Call to MITSSoftware to run Altair 8800Birth of BASIC Birth of Software Industry

MICRO-SOFT MICROSOFT corp.

1975-Dropped HARWARDStarted Micro-SoftChanged to Microsoft corp. 1976-Open Letter to HobbyistsTeen Manager

MICROSOFT contd..

Initial hurdlesFinancial crisis“Enough cash to perform operations with out any payment”-BillAlliance with IBMBasic Interpreter for IBM-PC“OFFICE BOY”

TURNING POINT…

MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating system)First created Dos for IBMBought Again from IBM for $75000 and named it MS-DOS Made Millions Established a great Platform for MicrosoftSold at prices cheaper than IBM

STORY OF WINDOWS

1983-VISICORP Announcement of GUI System.Bill‘s Fake announcement“WINDOWS to be launched in 1985”Started working on GUIWorked Intensely for two years and launched revolutionary WINDOWS

PERSONAL LIFE…

Married Melinda French on Jan 1st 1994Jennifer Katharine Gates (1996), Rory John Gates (1999) and Phoebe Adele Gates (2002) One of the Richest house in worldPosses Codex Leicester & Gutenberg Bible

PHILANTROPHY

2000-Founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation College scholarships for minority peopleAIDS prevention Diseases prevalent in third world countries Foundation endowed the University of Cambridge with $210 million for the Gates Cambridge Scholarships

PHILANTROPHY Contd…

2005, endowment of $29.0 billion. Spent about a third of his lifetime income on charity

HONORS

two honorary doctorates2002 - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden 2005-Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. Gates received the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation on May 4, 2006

KNIGHTHOOD

2005-Honorary KBE (Knighthood)

Queen Elizabeth II In United Kingdom

ERISTALIS GATESI A Flower fly named after Gates as a honour

Influential Person of 20th Century

Time Magazine named him one of the 100 people who most influenced the 20th centuryOne of the 100 most influential people of 2004, 2005 and again in 2006 .Gates and Oprah Winfrey are the only two people in the world to make all four lists named CEO of the year by Chief Executive Officers magazine ranked number one in the "Top 50 Cyber Elite" by Time in 1998

WEALTH

Number one on the "Forbes 400" list from 1993 through to 2006

Number one on Forbes list of "The World's Richest People" from 1995-2006 with 50 billion US dollars

2004 -a director of Berkshire Hathaway, the investment company headed by Warren Buffet

Bill's View

” I wished that I was not the richest man in the world, stating that he disliked the attention it brought”.I had a dream: " A computer in every home".Today, 28 years later, 85% of computers in the world run Microsoft Operating Systems. Some people think that it's too much power in the hands of just one company. The problem is if they produced better products that could compete with those produced by Microsoft, they would not be blaming Me and Microsoft.

PRINCIPLES

Workaholic – words of Thomas Edison - " Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."Ambitious -At the age of fourteen Bill was confident that he could be a millionaire by the age of thirty Entrepreneurship Skills Self Confidence – at one time over took IBM

PRINCIPLES contd…

Technologist- At the age of fourteen he learned BASIC Good Manager -Microsoft has constantly been rated as one of the most admired companies Excellent Sales Man -His life has been full of successful deals like DOSSuccessfully predicting future trends-Windows

CONTROVERSIES

1977 arrested in New Mexico for driving car with out license

1997 the U.S. Justice Dept. accused Microsoft of violating a 1995 antitrust agreement

2001 Court ordered for split of Microsoft.

Which resolved later

BILL AS BEST SELLER

The Road Ahead (1995, with N. Myhrvold and P. Rinearson)

received wide critical acclaim was listed on the best-seller lists of the New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal and Amazon. COM

Business @ the Speed of Thought (1999). how computer technology can solve business problems .

The book was published in 25 languages and is available in more than 60 countries

OTHER THAN MICROSOFT

Corbis Developing one of the world's

largest resources of visual information - a comprehensive digital archive of art and photography

He is also a member of the board of directors of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.,

FUNNY FACTS OF BILL GATES

According to the US Census Bureau, the population of the World on 09/12/06 was: 6,543,551,182 (That's 6.54 Billion). This means that Bill could give $3.77 to every person on the entire planet! And he'd still have $8,860,488 left over for incidentals.

FUNNY FACTS OF BILL GATES

According to the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, in Fiscal Year 2006, the United States Government printed paper currency worth a total of $156.82 Billion. Bill's net worth is 15.73% of that value.