Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington by William Henry Gates, Sr.., A lawyer, and Mary Maxwell, clerk First Interstate Bank, Pacific Northwest Bell, and members of the National United Way. Gates studied at Lakeside School, an elite school of the most superior in Seattle, and went on a lecture at Harvard University, but in-drop out.
William Henry Gates III was born in 1955, the second of three brothers in a social situation leading in Seattle, Washington. His father was a lawyer with the firm that had many connections in the city, and his mother a teacher, who is active in charitable activities. Bill's a smart kid, but he was too full of spirit and tend to often get into trouble at school. When he was thirteen years old, his parents decided to make changes and send him to Lakeside School, a prestigious elementary school special for boys.
At Lakeside in 1968 that Gates for the first time introduced to the world of computers, in the form of a teletype machine connected to the phone to a computer time sharing. This machine, called the ASR-33, it is still the market. At this point a typewriter which students can enter the next command sent to the computer; the answer back to the roll of paper typed on the teletype. This process is inconvenient, but changing the lives of Gates. She quickly mastered BASIC, the computer programming language, and together with the self-taught hacker in Lakeside, he spent long hours writing code, doing games, and generally learn a lot about computers. "He was a 'nerd' (eccentric)," as one of the teachers gave Gates' nickname.
Around the year 1975 when Gates with Paul Allen as a school together to prepare the first software program for micro-computers. Like a story in Popular Electronics about the "era of computers in homes" and they both believe the software is the future. This is the beginning of Microsoft.
During he studied at Harvard, he and Paul Allen wrote software Altair BASIC for the Altair 8800 in 1970. Altair is the first personal computer successful. Been inspired by BASIC, a computer language that is easy to learn and writing in college Dartmouth to teach, version of Gates and Allen later became Microsoft BASIC, a language translation of the main computer for the computer operating system MS-DOS, which became the key to the success of Microsoft. Microsoft Basic pada nantinya dijadikan Microsoft QuickBasic. Microsoft QuickBASIC version is sold without a compiler known as QBasic QuickBASIC. QuickBASIC is also used Visual Basic, which is still popular till the present.
In the early decades of 1970, Gates wrote the Open Letter to Penghobi (Open Letter to Hobbyists), which surprisingly had a hobby community on the computer by stating that there is a commercial market for software / software and that software is not eligible copied and duplicated without the permission of the publisher. At that time, the community is strongly influenced by the radio base hamnya and ethical hackers, who argued that innovation and knowledge should be shared by a community of computer users. Gates later founded Microsoft Corporation, one of the most successful companies in the world, and led to the opening of the computer software industry.
Gates also got a bad reputation for how to trade. One example is MS-DOS. In the late 1970s, IBM plans to enter the personal computer market with the IBM personal computer, which was published in 1981. IBM's need for computer operating systems, which may include planned and manage 16-bit architecture by Intel's x86 chip family. After conferring with another company (Company Digital Research in California), IBM asked Microsoft. Without telling about their ties with IBM, Microsoft executives bought an x86 operating system from Seattle Computer company for $ 50,000. (It's possible Microsoft prohibited IBM to tell about his ties to ordinary people) Microsoft later licensed the operating system to IBM (who publish under the name PC-DOS) and work with computer companies to publish under the name MS-DOS, on every computer system sold .
Microsoft's plan is very successful, but being sued by the Seattle Computer because Microsoft did not tell about his ties with IBM to purchase the operating system on the cheap; by this because Microsoft paid money to Seattle Computer, but does not admit guilt. Gates' reputation and more impaired by the demands of monopoly charges by the U.S. Department of Justice and individual companies against Microsoft in the late 1990s.
In 1980 Gates excited at the prospect of using this CD-ROM for storage of documents, and sponsored the publication of the book CD-ROM: The New Papyrus that promoted it.
It is undeniable that Bill Gates has made some mistakes in the software business. This was proven by some of the charges directed at him regarding the way - the way business is violating the laws of the United States business, such as the monopoly of Internet Explorer on Windows operating systems.
In 2000, Bill Gates retired from his position as CEO and memandatkannya to his old friend, Steve Ballmer. Gates then chose to return to his old profession which he loved as the creator of the software. Bill Gates is now the Chief of Research and Development of Software on his own company, Microsoft Corp..
In his personal life, Gates was married to Melinda French on January 1, 1994. They have three children, Jennifer Katharine Gates (1996), Rory John Gates (1999) and Phoebe Adele Gates (2002).
With his wife, Gates has established the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a charitable foundation philanthropy. The critics say this is evidence of people's anger about the monopolies and corporate superpower, but they are close to Gates say that he has long planned to donate most of his wealth. In 1997 the Washington Post newspaper claimed that "Gates has stated that he decided to donate his wealth than 90 percent while he was still alive." To put this in perspective, this contribution, though why, has provided a very needed money for college scholarships minorities, against AIDS and other causes, most of the issues usually ignored by the donor community, such as disease - common diseases we see in the third world. In June 1999, Gates and his wife donated $ 5 billion to their organization, pendermaan greatest in the world by individuals who live.
In 1994, he bought the Codex Leicester, a manuscript collection of Leonardo da Vinci; in the year 2003 collections on display at Seattle Art Museum.
In 2005, Gates received the award Kesatriaan (Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire honor) from Queen Elizabeth II.
On June 27, 2008, Gates resigned from his position in most of Microsoft (but remain as chairman of the board of directors) and concentrate on charitable work through the establishment of foundations, the Foundation Bill & Melinda Gates.
