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Business @ the Speed of Thought
Bill Gates
Elizabeth Suescún Monsalve
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Contents
The Book
Antitrust Litigation
Fun Facts about Bill Gates
Microsoft
Biography
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Biography
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Biography
William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, author and chairman of Microsoft.
He was born of English, German, and Scottish-Irish descent.
He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT and enrolled at Harvard College in the autumn of 1973, he did not have a definite study plan while a student at Harvard and spent a lot of time using the school's computers.
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He met his wife, Melinda French, in 1987 at a Microsoft press event in Manhattan while she was a worker for the company. They would go on to get married on New Years Day in 1994.
They have three children: daughters Jennifer Katharine Gates (born 1996) and Phoebe Adele Gates (born 2002), and son Rory John Gates (born 1999).
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Microsoft
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In his junior year, Gates left Harvard to devote his energies to Microsoft, a company he had begun with his childhood friend Paul Allen.
Guided by a belief that the computer would be a valuable tool on every office desktop and in every home, they began developing software for personal computers.
Gates' foresight and his vision for personal computing have been central to the success of Microsoft and the software industry.
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Microsoft
Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation.
Starting in 1980, Microsoft formed an important partnership with IBM that allowed them to bundle Microsoft's operating system with computers that they sold, paying Microsoft a royalty for every sale.
The company has now become largely successful. Microsoft has a global annual revenue of US$ 60.42 billion and nearly 107,000 employees in 105 countries. It develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices.
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Antitrust Litigation
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Antitrust Litigation
Microsoft has been involved in numerous high-profile litigations over the history of the company, including cases against the United States, the European Union, and competitors such as:
Alcatel-Lucent AOL Be Inc. Bristol Technology Inc. Zhongyi Electronic. Stac Electronics WordPerfect
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But the most important:
Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation, 35 F.3d 1435 (9th Cir. 1994) was a copyright infringement lawsuit in which Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple Inc.) sought to prevent Microsoft Corporation and Hewlett-Packard from using visual graphical user interface (GUI) elements that were similar to those in Apple's Lisa and Macintosh operating systems.
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The Book
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The Book
It is a book written by Bill Gates in 1999.
It discusses how business and technology are integrated, and shows how digital infrastructures and information networks can help getting an edge on the competition.
Gates asserts cyberspace and industry can no longer be separate entities, and that businesses must change to succeed in the Information Age.
It gives one an understanding of how advances in networking and I.T. can make a difference in day to day business.
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He said that this book was not just for people in business. it was for everybody.
He has a simple but strong belief: how you gather, manage, and use information will decide whether you win or lose.
He added information technology would give you the data that leads to deeper understanding of your business. It would enable you to act quickly. It would provide solutions to business problems that simply weren't available before.
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Predictions made by
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He said…
you would be able to dive into the
data to the lowest level of detail and
look at it from different angles.
you would be able to exchange
Information and Ideas with other
people. You can bring together
the ideas and work of many
people for a better result.
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He said…
he believed that today's paperworkwould be replaced by more efficient digital processes.
in the future people at work would
use computers every day for most
of their jobs.
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He predicted …
that most informationwould start arriving in digital form. As bills, booking, and so forth.
all phones, cameras, videos, and TVs would soon be digitaland other new machines would appear in the home and be connected to the Web.
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He pointed out…
in the digital age, you would need to become familiar enough with the Internet to be able to imagine what the Web lifestyle will mean.
some companies would use the Internet to interact with their customers in ways that hadn't been possible before.
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He imagined…
development of intelligent, interactive TV would come as television moves to digital technology.
computers that "see, listen, and learn," and creating software to power the new personal companion computers.
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He concluded…
PCs would be the primary tools for working and communicating in the digital age. The PC and the Internet would change one thing completely: they would provide every student in every school and communitywith information and ways of working that, before now, were not available even to students at the best schools.
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Fun Facts
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Fun facts about Bill Gates
Bill Gates earns US$250 every SECOND, that’s about US$20 Million a DAY and US$7.8 Billion a YEAR!
He can donate US$15 to everyone on earth but still be left with US$5 Million for his pocket money.
If Bill Gates was a country, he would be the 37th richest country on earth.
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Bill Gates has been heard saying that he wishes to become the first private citizen put into space. He is worth enough money to fund his own mission to Mars, twice.
If Microsoft Windows’ users can claim US$1 for every time their computers hang because of Microsoft Windows, Bill Gates will be bankrupt in 3 years.
If we assume that he will live for another 35 years, he has to spend US$6.78 Million per day to finish all his money before he can go to heaven.
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