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Introduction Schooling Establishing Microsoft IBM partnership About Microsoft Windows Gates as philanthropist Year wise awards
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INTRODUCTION
William Henry Bill Gates, born on october28, 1955, he was only son of William Henry gates and Mary Maxwell He is an American business magnate, philanthropist, author for several books Chairman of Microsoft Consistently ranked among the worlds wealthiest people from 1995 to 2009
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SCHOOLING
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ESTABLISHING MICROSOFT
At age 17 gates formed a venture with Allen called Traf-O-Data to make traffic counters based on intel8008 processor Enrolled at Harvard university in 1973 In 1974 summer, with Paul Allen joined in MITS, the creators of new micro computer They are hired and established first mini computer Altair BASIC
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ABOUT MICROSOFT
Named there partnership as Microcomputer-Software On Nov 26 1976, the trade name Microsoft was registered
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ABOUT MICROSOFT
Named there partnership as Micro-Soft On Nov 26 1976, the trade name Microsoft was registered
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IBM PARTNERSHIP
In 1980 IBM approached, to write the basic interpreter for its upcoming PC Developed PC-DOS Later it became MS-DOS, made Microsoft a major player in the industry
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CRITICISM
Many criticize gates, because they feels that, he is dominating the market illegally U.S government brought a lawsuit saying the company had an illegal strong hold on software industry Due to this in 2000, gates braked Microsoft, and transferred his CEO post to his friend Steve Ballmer Gates held on his advisor position in reshuffling
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WINDOWS
Launched first retail version of Microsoft windows on Nov 20,1985 Later developed windows NT kernel
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GATES AS PHILANTHROPIST
Gates is also a philanthropist In 1996, founded Bill & Melinda Gates foundation with $4b $1b to college scholarships
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1992- Awarded national level of technology by George bush 1995- CEO of Microsoft
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CONCLUSION
Bill gates, inventor of Microsoft, world leading software company. Developed so many system utilities like Operating systems, MSOffice, search engines. Played a vital role in developing technology world wide. With out Bill gates, it may take couple of years more to see the friendly GUI OS.
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