Bill Gates

William "Bill" Henry Gates III CFU [Wɪljəm bɪl hɛnɹɪ geɪts] (* 28. October 1955 in Seattle) Is a American Entrepreneurs and Programmers. Bill Gates became the richest man in the world again in 2009, after 2008, against only the No. 3[1]. He founded in 1975, together with Paul AllenWhich Microsoft Corporation. He has about 1.1 billion Shares Microsoft (approximately U.S. $ 41 billion), which is over 10% of Capital equivalent, serves as chairman until 2006 and was the Head of Development Department ( "Chief Software Architect") of the company. Since December 2004 he is also a member of the Supervisory (Board of Directors) By Berkshire Hathaway.
On 12 September 2007 he took his leave on the company's Assembly officially by Microsoft and the 27th June 2008 was his last day there.

Early years and education

Gates was born the second of three children of a wealthy lawyer William H. Gates II (born November 30, 1925) and the teacher, Mary Maxwell Gates. He has Kristiann Gates with an older and a younger sister, Libby.
Bill Gates excelled in elementary school, especially in mathematics and science, and went with 13 years in the private Lakeside School in Seattle. When he was in eighth grade, was in school a teletype type ASR-33 acquired, with the students at General Electric Were able to use computer time. Bill Gates was interested in the GE machine with BASICProgram-to programs and to promote its interests was partially exempted from the teaching of mathematics. Later, the students were on a PDP-10Plant of Digital Equipment Corporation . work After students Bugs had infiltrated into the systems that enabled them more free time on the computers, they were forbidden to work in the computer systems for a summer, then agreed to Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Ric Weiland and Kent Evans with the operators that they looked for and corrected software errors and ensure computer time were made available. Bill Gates subsequently dealt with various ProgrammingTo work on the system to run. These were in addition to BASIC also FORTRAN, LISP and Machine language.
The appointment with the Computer Center Corporation in 1970 and ended in the following year the school team from the Information Sciences, Inc. commissioned a PayrollProgram in COBOL to write. Together with his school friend Paul Allen Bill Gates founded his first company at age 14 Traf-O-Data. They developed a system for measuring traffic flows, based on the processor Intel 8008 ran, and they brought in 20,000 U.S. dollars.
1973 Gates went to the Harvard UniversityTo study there, but mostly spent his time in the computer room. There he met his future business partner Steve Ballmer . familiar In December 1974, he co-created with all within weeks of BASIC--Interpreter for new entrants into the Market next Home computer Altair 8800.

Microsoft

1975 Gates broke his Studies starting to be quite the leadership of his company Microsoft Corporation to pay. A few years later he succeeded the great coup when he IBM operating system MS-DOS provided. The post of Chief Executive Officer (CEO), he gave in January 2000 to Steve Ballmer now and has since Chairman and chief architect of the company. On 15 Gates announced in June 2006 to retire until July 2008 from the daily operations of Microsoft and the chief developer of the former head of technology items Ray Ozzie to leave in order to address then strengthened his foundation for charitable purposes. He will remain chairman (chairman), supporting Microsoft with ideas and visions.
In November 2007 Bill Gates was supported by the Computing Technology Industry Association, CompTIA, Voted most influential person in the IT world over the last 25 years