Bill Gates is an American business magnate and philanthropist who co-founded Microsoft Corporation. Some key points: - He met his wife Melinda French in 1987 and they married in 1994, having three children together. - He left Harvard University to devote his energies full-time to Microsoft, a company he began with his friend Paul Allen to develop software for personal computers. - Microsoft became hugely successful through partnerships allowing their operating system to bundle with IBM computer sales, and they now have annual revenue of $60.42 billion. - Gates has been involved in several high-profile antitrust litigations, including against the US, EU, and competitors over monopolistic practices. - In

1. Bill Gates
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Business @ the Speed of Thought
Biography
Microsoft
Antitrust Litigation
The Book
Fun Facts about Bill Gates

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4. Biography
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 William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28,
1955) is an American business magnate,
philanthropist, author and chairman of Microsoft.
 He was born of English, German, and Scottish-Irish
descent.
 He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT and
enrolled at Harvard College in the autumn of 1973,
he did not have a definite study plan while a
student at Harvard and spent a lot of time using
the school's computers.

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 He met his wife, Melinda French, in 1987 at a
Microsoft press event in Manhattan while she was a
worker for the company. They would go on to get
married on New Years Day in 1994.
 They have three children: daughters Jennifer
Katharine Gates (born 1996) and Phoebe Adele Gates
(born 2002), and son Rory John Gates (born 1999).

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 In his junior year, Gates left Harvard to devote his
energies to Microsoft, a company he had begun with his
childhood friend Paul Allen.
 Guided by a belief that the computer would be a
valuable tool on every office desktop and in every home,
they began developing software for personal computers.
 Gates' foresight and his vision for personal computing
have been central to the success of Microsoft and the
software industry.

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 Microsoft is a multinational computer technology
corporation.
 Starting in 1980, Microsoft formed an important partnership
with IBM that allowed them to bundle Microsoft's operating
system with computers that they sold, paying Microsoft a
royalty for every sale.
 The company has now become largely successful. Microsoft
has a global annual revenue of US$ 60.42 billion and nearly
107,000 employees in 105 countries. It develops,
manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of
software products for computing devices.

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 Microsoft has been involved in numerous high-
profile litigations over the history of the company,
including cases against the United States, the
European Union, and competitors such as:
 Alcatel-Lucent
 AOL
 Be Inc.
 Bristol Technology Inc.
 Zhongyi Electronic.
 Stac Electronics
 WordPerfect

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But the most important:
Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation,
35 F.3d 1435 (9th Cir. 1994) was a copyright
infringement lawsuit in which Apple Computer, Inc.
(now Apple Inc.) sought to prevent Microsoft
Corporation and Hewlett-Packard from using visual
graphical user interface (GUI) elements that were
similar to those in Apple's Lisa and Macintosh
operating systems.

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 It is a book written by Bill Gates in 1999.
 It discusses how business and technology are integrated, and
shows how digital infrastructures and information networks
can help getting an edge on the competition.
 Gates asserts cyberspace and industry can no longer be
separate entities, and that businesses must change to
succeed in the Information Age.
 It gives one an understanding of how advances in networking
and I.T. can make a difference in day to day business.

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 He said that this book was not just for people in business.
it was for everybody.
 He has a simple but strong belief: how you gather, manage, and
use information will decide whether you win or lose.
 He added information technology would give you the data that
leads to deeper understanding of your business. It would enable
you to act quickly. It would provide solutions to business
problems that simply weren't available before.

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He said…
 you would be able to dive into the
data to the lowest level of detail and
look at it from different angles.
 you would be able to exchange
Information and Ideas with other
people. You can bring together
the ideas and work of many
people for a better result.

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He said…
 he believed that today's paperwork
would be replaced by more
efficient digital processes.
 in the future people at work would
use computers every day for most
of their jobs.

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He predicted …
 that most information
would start arriving in
digital form. As bills,
booking, and so forth.
 all phones, cameras, videos,
and TVs would soon be digital
and other new machines
would appear in the home
and be connected to the Web.

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He pointed out…
 in the digital age, you would need
to become familiar enough with the
Internet to be able to imagine what
the Web lifestyle will mean.
 some companies would use the
Internet to interact with their
customers in ways that hadn't
been possible before.

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He imagined…
 development of intelligent,
interactive TV would come as
television moves to digital
technology.
 computers that "see, listen,
and learn," and creating
software to power the new
personal companion
computers.

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He concluded…
 PCs would be the primary tools for working
and communicating in the digital age. The
PC and the Internet would change one
thing completely: they would provide every
student in every school and community
with information and ways of working that,
before now, were not available even to
students at the best schools.

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23. Fun facts about Bill Gates
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 Bill Gates earns US$250 every SECOND,
that’s about US$20 Million a DAY and
US$7.8 Billion a YEAR!
 He can donate US$15 to everyone on earth
but still be left with US$5 Million for his
pocket money.
 If Bill Gates was a country, he would be the
37th richest country on earth.

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 Bill Gates has been heard saying that he
wishes to become the first private
citizen put into space. He is worth
enough money to fund his own mission
to Mars, twice.
 If Microsoft Windows’ users can claim
US$1 for every time their computers
hang because of Microsoft Windows, Bill
Gates will be bankrupt in 3 years.
 If we assume that he will live for
another 35 years, he has to spend
US$6.78 Million per day to finish all his
money before he can go to heaven.

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