5. BILL GATES AND HER WIFE MELINDA GATES WORKS TOGETHER
AND THEY BOTH ARE HANDLING THEIR OWN FOUNDATION…..
6. Q
HISTORY
*He had an early interest in software and
Become programming software at the age of
13.
*In 1973 bill gates became a student at HARVARD
UNIVERSITY where he meet STEVE BALLMER(NOW
MICROSOFT CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER).
*While still a harvard undergraduate bill gates wrote a version of the
programming language BASIC from the MITS Altair microcomputer.
7. *In 1975,before graduation gates left Harvard to from
Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. The pair
planned to developed software newly emerging personal
computer market.
*Bill gates company Microsoft became famous for their
computer operating system and killer business deals.
*On November 10,1983 at the Plaza hotel in New York city
Microsoft cooperation formally announced . Microsoft
windows a next generation operating system.
8. MICROSOFT DEVELOP
*Bill Gates was inspired to invent Microsoft because he saw the world was helpless
without ways to communicate find information so, that’s why bill gates invented
Microsoft.
*Microsoft is the multinational company technology cooperation. The history of microsoft
began on April 4,1975 .
*It current best selling products are the microsoft windows operating system and the
microsoft office suite of productivity software.
*The company has now become largely successful. As of 2013 microsoft has a global
annual revenue of US$77.85 billion and nearly 110,000 employees in 105 countries. It
develops manufactures, licenses and support a wide range of software products for
computing devices.
9. *1975-1985 - FOUNDATION OF MICROSOFT
MICROSOFT STAFF , ALBUQUERQUE , DECEMBER 7, 1978
TOP :STEVE WOOD,BOB WALLACE,JIM LANE
MIDDLE:BOB-O’REAR,BOB GREEN BERG,MARC
MCDONALDS,GORDON LETWIN
BOTTOM:BILL GATES,ANDREA LEWIS,MARLA WOOD,PAUL ALLEN
SOFTWARE DEVELOPED BY BILL GATES
10. *1985-1991 - RISE AND FALL OF OS/2
*1992-1995 - DOMINATION OF THE COORPORATIVE
MARKET
*1995-1999 - FORAY INTO THE WEB AND OTHER VENTURES
*2000-2005 - LEGAL ISSUES , WINDOWS XP AND DOT NET
*2005-2014 - VISTA, WINDOWS 7 & 8
12. AWARDS
*In 2006 , the foundation won the PRINCE of
ASTURIAS award for international cooperation.
*In 2007 , then the president of India PRATIBA
DEVISINGH PATIL presented by INDRA GANDHI prize
for peace , disarmament and development to the bill &
melinda foundation
14. IBM PARTNERSHIP
*IBM APPROACHED MICROSOFT IN JULY 1980
TO PROVIDE THE OPERATING SYSTEM FOR ITS
UPCOMING PERSONAL COMPUTER
*GATES OVERSAW MICROSOFT'S COMPANY
RESTRUCTURING IN JUNE 1981, WHICH RE-
INCORPORATED THE COMPANY IN
WASHINGTON STATE AND MADE GATES
PRESIDENT OF MICROSOFT AND THE
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD.
19. IN 1994 SOLD SOME OF HIS MICROSOFT
STOCK TO CREATE THE WILLIAM H. GATES
FOUNDATION. IN 2000, GATES AND HIS WIFE
COMBINED THREE FAMILY FOUNDATIONS INTO
ONE TO CREATE THE CHARITABLE BILL &
MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION, WHICH IS THE
LARGEST TRANSPARENTLY OPERATES OF
2007, BILL AND MELINDA GATES WERE THE
SECOND-MOST GENEROUS PHILANTHROPISTS
IN AMERICA, HAVING GIVEN OVER $28 BILLION
TO CHARITY.THEY PLAN TO EVENTUALLY GIVE
95% OF THEIR WEALTH TO CHARITY.
PHILANTHROPHY
20. RECOGNITION
YEAR RECOGNITION
1994 Honoured as the twentieth Distinguished
Fellow
1998 Top 50 cyber Elite
1999 Ranked number two in the upside Elite 100
2001 The Guardian as one of the "Top 100 influential people in
media"
2004, 2005, 2006 Time magazine named Gates one of the 100
people who most influenced the 20th
2005 Persons of the year