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    The Essence of Bill Gates Life
    The Essence of Bill Gates Life
    The Essence of Bill Gates Life
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    The Essence of Bill Gates Life

    By Isa Singh

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    Bill believed in achieving his goals through hard work. He also believes that if you are intelligent and know how to use your intelligence, you can reach your goals and targets. From his early days, Bill was ambitious, competitive and intelligent. These qualities helped him to attain a great position in the profession he also chose Bill was deemed by his peers and his teachers as the smartest kid on campus; Bill’s parents came to know their son’s intelligence and decided to enrol him in a private school, known for its intense academic environment. That was the most important decision in Bill Gate’s life where he was first introduced to computers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMahesh Dutt Sharma
    Release dateJun 2, 2018
    ISBN9780463800331
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      The Essence of Bill Gates Life - Isa Singh

      The Essence of Bill Gates Life

      Isa Singh

      Published by M.D. Sharma

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      Table of Contents

      Preface

      1. Bill Gates: A Brief Biography

      2. Act, Americans, America

      3. Compare, Computer, Consumer

      4. Harvard, Health, Human

      5. People, Person, Personal

      6. Success, System, Technology

      7. Environment, Biology, Strengths

      8. World, Settlement, Profits

      9. Popular, Measles, Challenge

      10. Sense, Genius, Goal

      11. Early, End, Transition

      Preface

      Bill believed in achieving his goals through hard work. He also believes that if you are intelligent and know how to use your intelligence, you can reach your goals and targets. From his early days, Bill was ambitious, competitive and intelligent. These qualities helped him to attain a great position in the profession he also chose Bill was deemed by his peers and his teachers as the smartest kid on campus; Bill’s parents came to know their son’s intelligence and decided to enrol him in a private school, known for its intense academic environment. That was the most important decision in Bill Gate’s life where he was first introduced to computers.

      -Author

      1. Bill Gates: A Brief Biography

      Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, the USA in a family having rich business, political and community service background. His great-grandfather was a state legislator and a mayor, his grandfather was vice president of the national bank, and his father was a lawyer.

      Bill Gates and his friends were very much interested in computer and formed Programmers Group in late 1968. Being in this group, they found a new way to apply their computer skill at the University of Washington. In the next year, they got their first opportunity in Information Sciences Inc. in which they were selected as programmers. ISI (Information Sciences Inc.) agreed to give them royalties, whenever it made money from any of the group’s program. As a result of the business deal signed with Information Sciences Inc., the group also became a legal business.

      Bill Gates and his close friend Allen formed a new company of their own, Traf-O-Data. They developed a small computer to measure traffic flow. From this project, they earned around $20,000. The era of Traf-O-Data came to an end when Gates left the college. Upon graduating from Lakeside Bill enrolled in Harvard University in 1973. He didn’t know what to do, so he enrolled his name for pre-law. He took the standard freshman courses with the exception of signing up for one of Harvard’s toughest mathematics courses. He did well over there, but he couldn’t find it interesting too. He spent many long nights in front of the school’s computer and the next day asleep in class. After leaving school, he almost lost himself from the world of computers. Gates and his friend Paul Allen remained in close contact even though they were away from school. They would often discuss new ideas for future projects and the possibility of starting a business one fine day. At the end of Bill’s first year, Allen came close to him so that they could follow some of their ideas. That summer they got a job in Honeywell. Allen kept on pushing Bill for opening a new software company.

      Within a year, Bill Gates dropped out from Harvard. Then he formed Microsoft. Microsoft’s vision is: A computer on every desk and Microsoft software on every computer. Bill is a visionary person and works very hard to achieve his vision. His belief in high intelligence and hard work has put him where he is today. He does not believe in mere luck or God’s grace, but just hard work and competitiveness. Bill’s Microsoft is good competition for other software companies, and he will continue to stomp out (challenge) the competition until he dies. He likes to play the game of risk and the game of world domination. His beliefs are so powerful, which have helped him increase his wealth and his monopoly in the industry.

      Bill Gates is not a greedy person. In fact, he is quite giving a person when it comes to computers, the internet and any funding. Some years back, he visited Chicago’s Einstein Elementary School and announced grants benefiting Chicago’s schools and museums where he donated a total of $110,000, a bunch of computers, and provided internet connectivity to a number of schools. Secondly, Bill Gates donated 38 million dollars for the building of a computer institute at Stanford University.

      As the principal founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates is one of the most influential and richest people on the planet. Recent estimates of his wealth put it at $56 billion; this is the equivalent of the combined GDP of several African economies.

      Microsoft

      Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1976 when he formed a contract with MITTS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) to develop a basic operating system for their new microcomputers. In the early days, Bill Gates would review every line of code. He was also involved in several aspects of Microsoft’s business such as packing and sending off orders.

      The big break for Microsoft came in 1980 when IBM approached them for a new BASIC operating system for its new computers. In the early 1980s, IBM was by far the leading PC manufacturer. However, increasingly, there developed many IBM PC clones; (PCs developed by other companies compatible with IBM’s). Microsoft worked hard to sell its operating system to these other companies. Thus Microsoft was able to gain the dominant position of software manufacturer just as the personal computer market started to boom. Since its early dominance, no other company has come close to displacing Microsoft as the dominant provider of computer operating the software.

      In 1990 Microsoft released its first version of Windows. This was a breakthrough in operating software as it replaced text interfaces with graphical interfaces. It soon became a best-seller and was able to capture the majority of the operating system market share. In 1995 Windows 95 was released, setting new standards and features for operating systems. This version of windows has been the backbone of all future releases from Windows 2000 to the latest XP and Vista.

      Throughout his time in office Bill Gates has been keen to diversify the business of Microsoft. For example, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer became the dominant web browser, although this is mainly because it comes pre-installed on most new computers, and in recent years has seen its market share slip.

      One area where Microsoft has never been as successful is in the area of search engines. MSN live search has struggled to gain more than 5% of market share. In this respect, Microsoft has been dwarfed by Google. Nevertheless, the success of Microsoft in cornering various aspects of the software market has led to several antitrust cases.

      Bill Gates is married to Melinda French (married in 1992). They have three children Jennifer (1996), Rory (1999) and Phoebe (2002). With his wife, Bill Gates formed the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Bill Gates says much of the inspiration came from the example of David Rockefeller. Like Rockefeller, Gates has sought to focus on global issues ignored by the government; he also expressed an interest in improving the standards of public school education in the US. He has appeared with Oprah Winfrey to promote this objective. In respect to charitable, philanthropic activities Gates has also received encouragement from investor Warren Buffet, who has given away $17 billion, through the Gates Foundation.

      From 2008 Gates has worked full time on his philanthropic interests. It is estimated Gates and his wife Melinda have given away $28 billion via their charitable foundation – including $8 billion to improve global health.

      Gates has said that he has no use for money, and will only leave a small percentage of his wealth to his children. In an interview Gates states:

      I’m certainly well taken care of regarding food and clothes, he says, redundantly. Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. Its utility is entirely in building an organization and getting the resources out to the poorest in the world.

      His main areas of interest in philanthropy have been improving health, and in particular helping to reduce diseases, such as polio which affect young children. He has also given more focus to environmental issues. In 2015, he gave $1 billion to a clean energy project, as he sees supporting new ‘greener’ technologies as a way to help deal with global warming.

      Bill Gates: Timeline

      Full name: William Henry Bill Gates III

      Date of birth: 28 October 1955

      Nationality: US

      Net worth: $79.2 billion (June

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