- Born: 28 October 1955
- Birthplace: Seattle, Washington
- Best Known As: Founder and head of the Microsoft Corporation
Bill gates is another great billionare from IT world, he
is countinuing as richest person. He is the founder and ex:CEO of
microsoft corporation. Bill Gates is the head of the software company
Microsoft and is
one of the world's wealthiest men. Gates and Paul
Allen
founded Microsoft in the 1970s, though Allen left the company
in 1983. Gates oversaw the invention and marketing of the MS-
DOS
operating system, the Windows operating interface, the
Internet
Explorer browser, and a multitude of other popular
computer
products. Along the way he gained a reputation for
fierce
competitiveness and aggressive business savvy. During
the 1990s
rising Microsoft stock prices made Gates the world's
wealthiest man;
his wealth has at times exceeded $75 billion,
making Gates a popular
symbol of the ascendant computer geek
of the late 20th century. In
June of 2006, Gates announced that
he would step down from
day-to-day involvement in Microsoft
by July of 2008. He said he
would then remain chairman of the
Microsoft board while focusing on
his charitable foundation,
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
micro soft intruduced many OS like MS dos,windows 98, 2000,windows
xp, windows 7 ,windows 8 and many more with the innovation.
Gates married Melinda French, a Microsoft employee, on 1
January 1994. The couple
have three children: daughters Jennifer
Katharine (b. 1996) and Phoebe Adele (b.
2002) and son Rory John (b.
1999)... Gates's personal chartiable initiative, the Bill
and Melinda
Gates Foundation, has focused on global health issues, especially
on
preventing malaria and AIDS in poor countries; in 2005, ABC News
reported that he
had given away over six billion dollars in the
previous five years... For their
philanthropic activities, Time
magazine named Bill and Melinda Gates its Persons of the Year for
2005.
Bill gates is presntly knowing as one of famous social
activist, because of his charitable foundation. Latestly he provided
his half portion of wealth for charity.
0 Comments