WilliamHenry Gates III, better known by the name of Bill Gates was born on October 28,
1955, in Seattle,
Washington. Bill Gates is the second child of three brothers.
His father William Henry Gates was a corporate lawyer who had many relations in
the city. While his mother Mary Maxwell an employee of First Interstate Bank,
Pacific Northwest Bell, and members of the National United Way.Bill's a smart
kid, but he's too full of spirit and tend to often have trouble in school. When
he was eleven years old, his parents decided to make a change in him and sent
him to Lakeside School, a prestigious elementary school specifically for boys.
In Lakeside that in 1968 Bill Gates for the first time introduced to the world
of computers, in the form of a teletype machine that connected the phone to a
computer time sharing.He quickly mastered BASIC, a computer programming
language, and along with his self-taught hacker in Lakeside, he spent time with
the hours writing a program, play a game, and generally learn a lot about
computers. "He was an eccentric," as one of his teachers gave Gates
surname. Bill Gates taking lectures at Harvard University in Cambridge starting
in 1975. There he met Paul Allen during school together. Together with Paul
Allen, Bill Gates continues to develop his talents in the field of computer
programming. However, Bill Gates ruled out (drop out) to donate her time to
Microsoft.Background WorkThrough his efforts, the company he founded called
Microsoft Corporation Bill Gates became successful and became a millionaire
soar. In 1990 Bill Gates successfully released an operating system that is very
successful in the world market. However, Bill Gates also got a bad reputation
in his career. Not just once, even Bill Gates made several errors in the
software business. In 1990 Bill Gates received demands from the United States
Department of Justice on charges Gates has a monopoly on small companies. And
once again Bill Gates tripped by law business law the United States in 1999. In
2000, Bill Gates stepped down from his position as Chairman of the Executive
Employee and he chose to return to his old profession that he loved the Head of
Research and Development Software at his own company, Microsoft Corp.. And in
early 2008, Bill Gates decided to resign from Microsoft management and concentrate
on philanthropic work through the charity he founded, the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation.Personal LifeIn life personal, Gates married Melinda French on
January 1, 1994. They have three children,Jennifer Katherine Gates (1996), Rory
John Gates (1999) and Phoebe Adele Gates (2002). With his wife, Bill Gates
founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is a social foundation
that regard pederita AIDS, scholarships for universities and concern for the
third world. Critics say this is proof of the anger of many monopolistic
practices, the company and some evil powers he has done, but some people close
to Bill Gates said that he has long planned to donate most of his wealth. In
1999 the Washington Post reported that "Gates has stated that he decided
to donate $ 5 billion to their organization. Thing it certainly is not
surprising because, according to a survey by Forbes Magazine, Bill Gates has
always been the richest man in the world during successive years from 1996 to
2004 the amount of $ 90 billion. With determination and hard struggle now Bill
Gates has reached his goal. To achieve success it is necessary sacrifices and
hard struggle, but hard work and never give up attitude Bill Gates has yielded
results that he can enjoy this moment .FACT FACT MILLION BILL GATESWant to know
how rich Bill Gates does it? These facts are ..1. Bill Gates earns U.S. $ 250
every SECOND, that's about U.S. $ 20 million a day and U.S. $ 7.8 billion a
year!2. If he drops U.S. $ 1,000, he did not even bother to pick it up because
the 4 seconds to take, he would've already earned the same amount.3. National
debt is about U.S. $ 5.62 trillion, if Bill Gates were to pay the debt, he will
finish it in less than 10 years.4. He can donate U.S. $ 15 to everyone on earth
but still be able to save U.S. $ 5 million as an allowance.5. Michael Jordan is
the highest paid athlete who in America. If he does not eat and drink and keep
his annual income ie U.S. $ 30 million, he'll have to wait 277 years to become
as rich as Bill Gates is now.6. If Bill Gates was a country, he would be the
richest country the world's number to the 37 or so largest American company
number 13, surpassing even IBM.7. If all the money Bill Gates exchanged in
denominations of U.S. $ 1, we can arrange a road from earth to moon, 14 times
back and forth. But to make that road non-stop for 1,400 years, and use a total
of 713 BOEING 747 planes to transport all the money.8. Bill Gates is 40 this
year. If we assume that he will live for another 35 years, he has to spend U.S.
$ 6.78 million per day to finish all his money before he went to heaven.9. But!
If Microsoft Windows' users can claim U.S. $ 1 for every time their computers
hang because of Microsoft Windows, Bill Gates will be bankrupt in 3 years!