William Henry Gates III (born Octob

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.
Microsoft
Microsoft 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. Japan
5. The Asia Pacific.
6. China
Management style
From Microsoft's founding in 1975 until 2006, Gates had primary responsibility for the company's product strategy. He aggressively broadened the company's range of products, and wherever Microsoft achieved a dominant position he vigorously defended it.
As an executive, Gates met regularly with Microsoft's senior managers and program managers. Firsthand accounts of these meetings describe him as verbally combative, berating managers for perceived holes in their business strategies or proposals that placed the company's long-term interests at risk.
Gates's role at Microsoft for most of its history was primarily a management and executive role. However, he was an active software developer in the early years, particularly on the company's programming language products.