Bill Gates

 Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft):
In the middle of 1975, after the spectacular success of Bill Gates and Paul Allen with the Mets, the two decided to create a special partnership to develop their programs, they call the “Micro-Soft” and this is the name of the words “Microcomputer” and “Software”.

Bill Gates owned 60% of the size of the company while the Paul Allen on the remaining 40%, and protested Bill for the largest share of the reordering of the work in the company, while Paul was still full-time employees a company the Mets. Program was the interpreter (BASIC-interpreter), developed by Microsoft during this period of the theft and illegal copying by hackers, angering Bill Gates paid to write a message to the pirates in the newspaper company meets the periodic “An Open Letter to Hobbyists”, condemns the theft and piracy emphasizes the right programmer to get the price of his accomplishments through the sale of programs. As a result of this letter hostile reactions among the piracy. In contrast, the Bill on many of the messages with suggestions for solving the problem of piracy, one of which contained a program inside the chip “read-only memory (ROM)”, and thus become the program lines are engraved inside the chip of silicon, instead of entering the computer through a paper tape , which makes the theft virtually impossible, and this was the best solution in the eyes of Bill Allen, and decided to apply in next time. Indeed, Microsoft has developed a program interpreter for the Commodore global company, and was included in the program for the first time on the ROM chip for the Commodore-bit computer (Personal Electronic Transactor-Commodore PET).

With the end in 1976, Microsoft officially been registered as an independent company, and earnings of approximately 104 thousand and U.S. $ 216. Paul Allen, who resigned from the company meets the full-time work at Microsoft, and Microsoft continued to develop programs for different systems.

Partnership with IBM:
In 1980, IBM launched the World (IBM – International Business Machine Company) project known as the Manhattan Project (Manhattan Project) to manufacture a new personal computer known as the PC “IBM” for use in homes and offices, the company was in need of an operating system to the new computer; therefore contacted the Microsoft’s trying to get on the system. But Microsoft were not possess an operating system ready in time, so she proposed operating system CP / M and developed by the company “Digital Research”, and has already worked for a firm proposal to the Bill and IBM representatives went to meet the Company Keldal Gary (Gary Kildall), founder of “Digital Research “But a quirk of fate that fails this meeting, it was not originally Gary Mtwajadda time meeting where he had boarded a plane for an interview for another customer!!!

And returned IBM to request the assistance of Bill Gates, and this time he decided to meet their needs and provide them with a personal operating system is required. Stood up to Bill Gates and Paul Allen to buy the full rights of the operating system ready QDOS (Quick & Dirty Operating System) from the developer of the system programmer Tim Paterson (Tim Paterson), who was working at the Seattle company Computer Products (Seattle Computer Products) for U.S. $ 50000 – did not announce Microsoft at the time for Seattle’s real reason to buy this system – This system was appropriate to work with the Intel processor used in the manufacture of a computer “PC IBM”. And Microsoft has rebranded the system initially to become a “PC-DOC”.

In the partnership agreement concluded between Microsoft and IBM, Bill Gates insisted that Microsoft’s exclusive provider of operating systems for each personal computer, a subsidiary of IBM, in the sense that IBM is barred from contracting with any other software company for the purchase of operating systems for their products. In contrast, Microsoft is entitled to retain full rights to develop and sell its own operating system for those who want the individuals or companies in an attempt to dominate the software market.

Indeed, Microsoft has put a copy of the operating system market with a new name is MS-DOS in 1981 (MS-DOS – Microsoft Disk Operating System). And made it an attractive system because it is sold at a fixed price and all without the allocation of the identity of the buyer – In the past, the operating systems sold exclusively to a particular company to be run on these devices the only company exclusively, but with the operating system MS-DOS time has ended the monopoly in the software became available to everyone — It was Bill Gates aims, through to build a huge base of users of Microsoft products so it becomes the main supplier for all users. The programmer Tim Patterson resigned from the company Seattle Computer Products to become an employee of Microsoft Corporation.

In August 12, 1981 IBM announced the official publication of the personal computer IBM PC.

In the wake of these events embroiled in a dispute between Microsoft and Seattle Computer Products in which he accused of Bill Gates and Paul Allen, act in a manner contrary to professional ethics. When they bought the operating system “QDOS” of the Seattle company did not say they were never in negotiations with IBM to develop a system for their operations. The Seattle company to sue Microsoft on the basis of fraud and exploitation to complete the bargain by concealing important information about the nature of the relationship with the company IBM. And ended with this issue later through a financial settlement out of court between the two companies.

The resignation of Paul Allen:
At the end of 1982, decreed that the injured Paul Allen Hodgkins disease (Hodgkin’s disease), a type of rare cancer affecting the lymphatic system in the body. And the impact of Paul Allen resigned from Microsoft to devote himself to treatment, thus leaving the Paul Allen of Microsoft forever, but this did not prevent the continuation of the friendship that arose between the early companion to Lakeside to this day.

Fortune:
Gates is one of the most famous investors in the field of personal computers, despite having a wide popularity only to company policy under fire on charges of anti-competitive, leading to a trial sometimes [5]. Follow the Gates charitable efforts, by supporting the welfare centers and scientific research amounts of wealth through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which opened in 2000.

According to Forbes magazine’s list of the world’s richest people, Bill Gates got the first order between 1995 and 2007 and is now estimated fortune of 58 billion U.S. dollars. But in 2008, slipped to third place

Years of growing his fortune by Forbes Magazine

1986 315 million
1987 billion and a quarter billion
1990 2 billion and a half
1995 14.8 billion (the first year ranked the richest man in the world).
1997 40 billion
1999 85 billion
2000 63 billion (down by a decline in the value of stocks).
2008 58 billion
2009, according to Forbes, Bill Gates returned to the fore once again, ahead of Warren Buffett and Carlos Slim, with $ 40 billion after losing 18 billion

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