Bill Gates BIOGRAPHY

William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business
magnate, investor, philanthropist, author, and former CEO. , the software company
he co-founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the richest people
in the world and was ranked first from 1995 to 2009, excluding 2008 when he
dropped to number three.
During his career at Microsoft, Gates served as CEO and chief software architect,
and is still the largest individual shareholder with more than 8 percent of the
company's common stock. He has also written several books.
Gates is one of the world's famous entrepreneurs for the personal computer
revolution. Although he is admired by many, some in his industry have criticized his
business tactics as being deemed anti-competitive, an opinion that has been
supported by the courts in several cases. In the later stages of his career, Gates
carried out several philanthropic endeavors by donating large sums to various
charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation founded in 2000.
 Gates stepped down as Microsoft's top executive officer in January 2000. He
still serves as chairman and forms the post of chief software architect. In June
2006, Gates announced that he would be working part-time at Microsoft and full-
time at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He gradually outsourced all of his
work to Ray Ozzie, chief software architect, and Craig Mundie, Microsoft's top
research and strategy officer. Gates' last full-time working day at Microsoft was
June 27, 2008. He still works at Microsoft as a non-executive chairman.
Gates was born in Seattle, Washington, to William H. Gates, Sr. and Mary
Maxwell Gates who is of English, German, and Scottish-Irish descent. His family
belongs to the upper middle class; his father was a prominent attorney, his mother
served on the board of directors of First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way,
and his father, JW Maxwell, was president of the national bank. Gates has an older
sister named Kristi (Kristianne) and a younger sister named Libby. He was the
fourth in his family, but was known as William Gates III or "Trey" because his father
bore the suffix "II." Early in his life, Gates' parents hoped for a career in law. When
Gates was young, his family often attended Congregational churches.
 At the age of 13, he attended Lakeside School, an exclusive prep school in
Seattle. When he was in eighth grade, the school's Mothers Club took advantage
of a license from Lakeside School's old goods sale to purchase a Teletype Model
33 ASR terminal and some computer time using General Electric (GE) computers
for the school's students. her math class to pursue her passion. He wrote his first
computer program on this machine, an application of tic-tac-toe that allowed
users to play computer against computer. Gates was fascinated by this engine and
the way it executed software code flawlessly. As he looks back on those days, he
says, "There was just something about that machine." After the Mothers Club
donation ran out, he and other students spent time working on several systems,
including the DEC PDP minicomputer. One such system was the PDP-10 owned by
Computer Center Corporation (CCC), which banned four Lakeside students—
Gates, Paul Allen, Ric Weiland, and Kent Evans—over the summer after they were
caught exploiting a bug in the operating system to gain time. free computer
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