William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955), commonly known as Bill Gates, is the co-founder and chairman of Microsoft. He is the richest person in the world.Bill Gates was born in Seattle. He is of British and German ancestry. His father was a lawyer. His mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way. His parents wanted him to be a lawyer. At the age of 13,Bill went to Lakeside High School, an exclusive preparatory school. When he was in the eighth grade, he wrote his first computer program on this machine: an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer. Gates was fascinated by the machine and how it would always execute software code perfectly.After his administrators became aware of his programming abilities, Gates wrote the school's computer program to schedule students in classes. He later stated that "it was hard to tear myself away from a machine at which I could so unambiguously demonstrate success.Gates graduated from Lakeside School in 1973 and was a National Merit Scholar. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT and enrolled at Harvard College in the autumn of 1973. While at Harvard, he met Steve Ballmer, who would later succeed Gates as CEO of Microsoft.He was a freshman at Harvard University in 1973 but Gates did not have a definite study plan while a student at Harvard and spent a lot of time using the school's computers. He left Harvard to make software. Bill Gates saw an opportunity to transform thepersonal computer, which used to be a hard-to-use and expensive device. He saw that computers could be made less expensive and more easy to use. Gates started Microsoft in 1975 with Paul Allen. He had talked this decision over with his parents, who were supportive of him after seeing how much Gates wanted to start a company.In 1981 Gates became Chairman and Chairman of the board of Microsoft.Gates stepped down from his CEO position in Microsoft in 1998 and Steve Ballmer did the job instead. On June 16, 2007, Microsoft said that Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, will come in on a day-to-day schedule to continue working with his charity organization full time for the years to come. On 2014, Satya Nadella became the new CEO of Microsoft and Bill Gates came back as the Chief Technology Adviser.MicrosoftMicrosoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond,Washington, that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services.It is the world's largest software maker measured by revenues. It is also one of the world's most valuable companies. Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Microsoft Windows. The company's 1986 initial public offering, and subsequent rise in its share price, created three billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees. Since the 1990s, it has increasingly diversified from the operating system market and has made a number of corporate acquisitions. In May 2011, Microsoft acquired Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion in its largest acquisition to date. As of 2013, Microsoft is market dominant in both the IBM PC-compatible operating system and office software suite markets (the latter with Microsoft Office). The company also produces a wide range of other software for desktops and servers, and is active in areas including Internet search , the video game industry, the digital services market , and mobile phones. In June 2012, Microsoft entered the personal computer production market for the first time, with the launch of the Microsoft Surface, a line of tablet computers.Activity Microsoft is present in most countries and, Microsoft set up branches in more than 102 countries (2007) and classified into six areas:1. North America. 2. Latin America. 3. Europe, Middle East, Africa. 4. Japan5. á Thái Bình Dương. 6. Trung QuốcPhong cách quản lýTừ của Microsoft thành lập vào năm 1975 cho đến năm 2006, Gates có trách nhiệm chính cho chiến lược sản phẩm của công ty. Ông mạnh mở rộng của công ty những sản phẩm, và bất cứ nơi nào Microsoft đã đạt được một vị trí thống trị ông mạnh mẽ bảo vệ nó.Như là một giám đốc, Gates đã gặp gỡ thường xuyên với của Microsoft quản lý cao cấp và quản lý chương trình. Các tài khoản firsthand của cuộc họp những mô tả ông như quản lý chiến đấu bằng lời nói, berating cho các lỗ hổng nhận thức trong chiến lược kinh doanh hoặc đề xuất đặt lợi ích lâu dài của công ty tại rủi ro của họ.Vai trò của Gates tại Microsoft cho phần lớn lịch sử của nó chủ yếu là một quản lý và điều hành vai trò. Tuy nhiên, ông là một nhà phát triển phần mềm hoạt động trong những năm đầu, đặc biệt là về các sản phẩm ngôn ngữ lập trình của công ty.
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