Bill+Gates

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This is a picture of Bill Gates.

This is a link to quotes by Bill Gates

My favorite one is "It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to listen to the lessons of failure."

__Bill Gates timeline on important events in his life__

 * 1955: Born as William Henry Gates III in Seattle, on 28th October 1955
 * 1973: Enrolled in Harvard to study computer science
 * 1975: Founded Micro-Soft (now Microsoft) with Paul Allen, his childhood friend, in Albuquerque, New Mexico
 * 1975: Dropped out of Harvard during his third year
 * 1975 - 2000: Served as the CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of Microsoft
 * 1976: Registered Microsoft as a trade name
 * 1979: Moved Microsoft from Albuquerque to Bellevue, Washington
 * 1981: Microsoft incorporated, Became President & Chairman of the board
 * 1990: Spoke at Comdex tradeshow
 * 1992: Awarded National Medal of Technology for Technological Achievement by President George Bush
 * 1994: Married Melinda French
 * 1995: Declared as World’s Richest Man by Forbes
 * 1995: Released the book, ‘The Road Ahead’
 * 1998: Antitrust Court case United States vs. Microsoft
 * 1999: His worth passed $100bn mark
 * 1999: Wrote Business @ the Speed of Thought
 * 2000: Founded Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, with his wife Melinda Gates
 * 2000-2006: Served as the Chief Software Chairman of Microsoft
 * 2006: Announced that he will remain as the Chairman of Microsoft and an manager on important development projects

__Below is video of the biography of Bill Gates__
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"Bill Gates Biography." //5 minute//. Web. 5 Jun 2011.

Bill Gates also is an author.He wrote a book called "The Road Ahead". The book got a 4/5 rating overall. Also, he wrote "Business at the Speed of Thought". This book got a 3.5/5 rating overall.

__Book Report__
Title: Up Close: Bill Gates Author: Marc Aronson

This biography was about Bill Gates and his success in business as the founder of Microsoft. The book starts with information about Bill Gates when he was very young. At that time he was the type of kid that would skip classes until he had to go to attend. He finally got in trouble so much that he had to go from a public school to an expensive private school called Lakeside. While at Lakeside he formed a computer group with Paul Allen and other Lakeside friends and called it the Lakeside Programmers Group. He went on to Harvard to study computer science. While at Harvard he and Paul Allen invented the operating system Altair. This operating system soon became the start of Microsoft. Microsoft went on to make different software and hardware including the Xbox, Zune, and Windows Mobile. Today he still has a role in Microsoft and donates lots of money to the Bill and Melinda Foundation.

Bill Gates is a part of the Bill and Melinda gates foundation. It gave away the most money a foundation has ever givin away. It was made when Bill and Melinda were on vacation in Africa and saw a mom selling her personal items for money so she could buy food for her children. Melinda then thought that it was not fair for her to live in a $100 million house and people in Africa sell their personal items for food for their children.

I think Bill Gates will become the richest man in the world because the richest man right now is old and close to retiring. Bill is not as old as him and is still working.

Bill Gates's rival is Steve Jobs. They would fight over little problems to ruin the other's business, but no matter how many times they went to court and Bill lost, he could pay it off. He is the man who invented Apple and the iPod, iPad, iPod Touch.



This is a link to Bill Gates's signature.

This is a link to a Bill Gates advertisement that I created.

To learn more go to Microsoft's Website

Thank you, Jon B.