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William Henry Gates III (born October 28 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, the world's third richest person (as of 2008), and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software... Read enhanced Wikipedia article
Date of Birth:
1955
Place of Birth: Seattle
Nationality:
United States
Spouse:
Melinda Gates
Children:
Phoebe Adele Gates (2 hidden)
Parents:
Mary Maxwell Gates (1 hidden)
Profession:
Entrepreneur, Programmer, Businessperson (1 hidden)
Books:
Business @ the Speed of Thought (1 hidden)

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Microsoft, company, Kurt Russell, Paul Newman, leader, Merv Griffin, Oliver Stone, Goldie Hawn and Cher.

Bill Gates founded Microsoft

Keeping up with the Joneses It refers to the desire to live a lifestyle comparable to the multi-billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates.

Software wars It is an example of the Evil Empire genre of humor that is endemic in hacker culture where Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, is represented as the ruler of the evil Galactic Empire of the Star Wars movies or, as in this case, as one of the Borg of the Star Trek: The Next Generation television series.

Preston Gates & Ellis The "Gates" in the firm's name is William H. Gates, Sr., father of Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

Hammer Museum In 1994, the Hammer Museum made headlines by selling Leonardo Da Vinci's Codex Leicester to Microsoft founder Bill Gates for $30.8 million.

History of E3 Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, spoke of plans to integrate several Microsoft services into one entity with Live Anywhere.

Ross School of Business C.K. Prahalad, Prahalad earned the third spot on Suntop Media's 2005 "Thinkers 50" list, just behind Microsoft founder, Bill Gates.

Latin America's Business Figures Microsoft founder Bill Gates' net worth was estimated to be at least US$58 billion.

DONKEY.BAS The game is also notable because it was co-written by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.

University of Waterloo During his visit to Waterloo in October 2005, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates stated, "Most years, we hire more students out of Waterloo than any university in the world, typically 50 or even more."

Jeffrey P. Buzen Robert M. Metcalfe co-invented Ethernet, John M. McQuillan developed routing algorithms used by ARPAnet, and Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft.

William Gates Computer Science Building (Cambridge) It was named after Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who donated 50% of the money for the building's construction.

Neelie Kroes As chairperson of Nijenrode University, Kroes awarded an honorary doctorate to Microsoft founder Bill Gates in 1996.

2005 in the United Kingdom 2 March - Microsoft founder Bill Gates receives an honorary knighthood for contributions to enterprise in the UK and efforts to reduce world poverty.

Queens Park Rangers F.C. season 2007-08 On 1 April QPR fan website Vital QPR declared an exclusive that Microsoft founder Bill Gates was to invest in the club, which, despite being an apparent April Fool joke, was repeated on general news and QPR fan sites.

List of minor characters in Dilbert Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, has appeared several times in Dilbert.

Howard Johns He was again criticized for revealing previously unpublished private addresses of hundreds of film and television celebrities, among them Paul Newman, Cher, Kurt Russell, Goldie Hawn, Oliver Stone, Merv Griffin, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.

1975 April 4 - Bill Gates founds Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Bill Gates (frontiersman) Despite the similarity in name and geography, there is no apparent family relationship between "Swiftwater Bill" and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

March 2, 2005 Microsoft founder Bill Gates is awarded the title of Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II (which will entitle him to suffix the letters "KBE" to his name but not use the title of "Sir") for his contribution to enterprise in the United Kingdom and his efforts in poverty reduction around the world.

University of Washington School of Law William H. Gates, Sr. (1950): Father of Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

K&L Gates Some notable K&L lawyers include Gates, father of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, as well as former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh.

Bill Gates founded company

World domination Because of the ubiquity of Microsoft products in the computing world, company founder Bill Gates has often been parodied as seeking world domination.

Thomas Penfield Jackson The judge also characterized Microsoft leader and co-founder Bill Gates as a Napoleon, "unethical", as well as comparing him to a "drug trafficker" repeatedly caught as a result of telephone wiretaps.

Arfa Karim The Mir Khalil-ur-Rehman Foundation or the MKRF working with Microsoft, Pakistan awarded Arfa with the Shabash award for her achievements and arranged for her a trip to the Microsoft Redmond Headquarters in the USA to personally meet the company's founder - Bill Gates.

The Roger Richman Agency The agency is owned by Corbis, a digital imaging company founded by Bill Gates.

Bill Gates founded Kurt Russell

Howard Johns He was again criticized for revealing previously unpublished private addresses of hundreds of film and television celebrities, among them Paul Newman, Cher, Kurt Russell, Goldie Hawn, Oliver Stone, Merv Griffin, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.

Bill Gates founded Paul Newman

Howard Johns He was again criticized for revealing previously unpublished private addresses of hundreds of film and television celebrities, among them Paul Newman, Cher, Kurt Russell, Goldie Hawn, Oliver Stone, Merv Griffin, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.

Bill Gates founded leader

Thomas Penfield Jackson The judge also characterized Microsoft leader and co-founder Bill Gates as a Napoleon, "unethical", as well as comparing him to a "drug trafficker" repeatedly caught as a result of telephone wiretaps.

Bill Gates founded Merv Griffin

Howard Johns He was again criticized for revealing previously unpublished private addresses of hundreds of film and television celebrities, among them Paul Newman, Cher, Kurt Russell, Goldie Hawn, Oliver Stone, Merv Griffin, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.

Bill Gates founded Oliver Stone

Howard Johns He was again criticized for revealing previously unpublished private addresses of hundreds of film and television celebrities, among them Paul Newman, Cher, Kurt Russell, Goldie Hawn, Oliver Stone, Merv Griffin, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.

Bill Gates founded Goldie Hawn

Howard Johns He was again criticized for revealing previously unpublished private addresses of hundreds of film and television celebrities, among them Paul Newman, Cher, Kurt Russell, Goldie Hawn, Oliver Stone, Merv Griffin, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.

Bill Gates founded Cher

Howard Johns He was again criticized for revealing previously unpublished private addresses of hundreds of film and television celebrities, among them Paul Newman, Cher, Kurt Russell, Goldie Hawn, Oliver Stone, Merv Griffin, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.

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Open Letter, code, letter, language, program, “Open Letter, software, Altair BASIC, BASIC, Microsoft, interpreter, DONKEY.BAS and article.

Bill Gates wrote Open Letter

Hacker ethic As a result, Gates wrote an Open Letter to Hobbyists..

Bill Gates In February 1976, Gates wrote an Open Letter to Hobbyists in the MITS newsletter saying that MITS could not continue to produce, distribute, and maintain high-quality software without payment.

Open Letter to Hobbyists The Open Letter to Hobbyists was an open letter written by Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, to early personal computer hobbyists, in which Gates expresses dismay at the rampant copyright infringement taking place in the hobbyist community, particularly with regard to his company's software.

Bill Gates wrote code

Bill Gates In reality, Gates and Allen did not have an Altair and had not written code for it; they merely wanted to gauge MITS's interest.

Bill Gates Gates oversaw the business details, but continued to write code as well.

Bill Gates wrote letter

Open Letter to Hobbyists The Open Letter to Hobbyists was an open letter written by Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, to early personal computer hobbyists, in which Gates expresses dismay at the rampant copyright infringement taking place in the hobbyist community, particularly with regard to his company's software.

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution Gates responded by writing an open letter titled “Open Letter to Hobbyists” that considered the sharing of software to be theft.

Bill Gates wrote language

How William Shatner Changed the World This led to Bill Gates writing the computer programming language BASIC for the Altair and forming Microsoft

Bill Gates wrote program

Bill Gates After his administrators became aware of his programming abilities, Gates wrote the school's computer program to schedule students in classes.

Bill Gates wrote “Open Letter

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution Gates responded by writing an open letter titled “Open Letter to Hobbyists” that considered the sharing of software to be theft.

Bill Gates wrote software

Traf-O-Data Gates and Allen started writing the software.

Bill Gates wrote Altair BASIC

Model Rocketry (magazine) Bill Gates and Paul Allen moved to Albuquerque in 1975 to write Altair BASIC and soon started Microsoft.

Bill Gates wrote BASIC

How William Shatner Changed the World This led to Bill Gates writing the computer programming language BASIC for the Altair and forming Microsoft

Bill Gates wrote Microsoft

Model Rocketry (magazine) Bill Gates and Paul Allen moved to Albuquerque in 1975 to write Altair BASIC and soon started Microsoft.

Bill Gates wrote interpreter

Ed Roberts (computers) This article excited a Harvard University undergraduate named Bill Gates, and his good friend Paul Allen, and the duo contacted Roberts to write a BASIC interpreter for the machine.

Bill Gates wrote DONKEY.BAS

DONKEY.BAS DONKEY.BAS was written by Bill Gates and Neil Konzen to demonstrate the IBM PC and the BASIC programming language's capability to produce interactive programs with color graphics and sound.

Bill Gates wrote article

Encarta An article written by Bill Gates addressed the nature of writing encyclopedia for different regions.

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Beta, program, Mira, system, day, Windows Home Server and partnership.

Bill Gates announced Beta

Microsoft Office 2007 Office 2007 Beta 2 was announced by Bill Gates at WinHEC 2006, and was initially released to the public at no cost from Microsoft's web site.

Bill Gates announced program

DreamSpark The DreamSpark program was announced by Bill Gates on February 19, 2008 during a speech at Stanford University.

Bill Gates announced Mira

Smart Display Mira was announced by Bill Gates at the 2002 Consumer Electronics Show:

Bill Gates announced system

History of Microsoft Windows The system was announced on January 7, 2007 by Bill Gates.

Bill Gates announced day

Software architect The overwhelming popularity of the term Architect in the context of software development can be traced to the day Bill Gates announced that he was relinquishing the title of President and CEO of Microsoft and assuming the role of Chief Software Architect.

Bill Gates announced Windows Home Server

Windows Home Server Announced on January 7, 2007, at the Consumer Electronics Show by Bill Gates, Windows Home Server is intended to be a solution for homes with multiple connected PCs to offer file sharing, automated backups, and remote access.

Bill Gates announced partnership

Internet Explorer for Mac At the 1997 Macworld Expo in Boston, on August 6, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates announced a partnership between Microsoft and Apple.

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    Bill Gates

    William Henry Gates III (born October 28 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, the world's third richest person (as of 2008), and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen.
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    Bill Gates (frontiersman)

    "Swiftwater" Bill Gates was an American frontiersman and fortune hunter, and a fixture in stories of the Klondike Gold Rush. He made and lost several fortunes, and died in Seattle in 1935.
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    Bill Gates (disambiguation)

    Bill or William Gates is the name of: William Henry Gates, Sr, (born 1925) philanthropist and father of Bill Gates III
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    Category:Bill Gates

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    Bill Gates' house

    Bill Gates' house is a large earth-sheltered mansion in the side of a hill overlooking Lake Washington in Medina, Washington. The house is noted for its design and the technology it incorporates.
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    Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

    The foundation was initially funded by Bill Gates with US$126 million in 2000.
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    History of Microsoft

    Bill Gates gives a presentation at IT-Forum in Copenhagen in 2004.
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    Criticism of Microsoft

    The Microsoft File: the secret case against Bill Gates.
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    Bill Gates' flower fly

    Bill Gates' flower fly (Eristalis gatesi) is a flower fly found only in Costa Rican high montane cloud forests and named after Bill Gates. Another fly found in similar habitats was named after Gates' associate Paul Allen, called Paul Allen's flower fly (Eristalis alleni); according to the US Department of Agriculture's Systematic Entomology Laboratory, both names were in "recognition of [their] great contributions to the science of Dipterology".

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