life
Gates was born in an upper-class family on the west coast of the United States, and his father was a famous local lawyer in Seattle. Gates is an excellent student and is famous for his extreme individualism. According to one of his classmates, Gates declared himself a billionaire at the age of 25. In the1970s, Gates, who was still at Harvard University, and his partner paul allen (sport in of Allen) designed the basic interpretation device of Altair for 8,800 Altair computers. Altair is the first commercially successful personal computer, but BASIC language is a simple and easy-to-learn computer programming language. The version of BASIC developed by Gates and Allen is the later Microsoft BASIC and also the ms-dos operating system, and the latter is the key foundation of Microsoft's early success. Microsoft Basic later became Microsoft QuickBasic, and gradually evolved into Visual Basic which is still popular today.
Gates in his youth In the early 1970s, Gates wrote a famous letter to his lover, which shocked the computer science community. Gates hinted that computer software will be a huge commercial market, and computer enthusiasts should not copy computer programs without the author's consent. When computer science is influenced by hacker culture, creativity and knowledge should be shared. Gates left campus, founded one of the most successful companies in the world-Microsoft, and gradually industrialized the software.
But Gates' commercial gimmicks often attract criticism, one of which is the ms-dos source code. In the1970s, IBM was planning to enter the PC market, and officially launched the IBM PC in 198 1. IBM found a suitable operating system based on Intel x86 series processors for our products. IBM found Microsoft after a brief negotiation with another company. Microsoft also told Seattle Computer Company before that it was negotiating with IBM, allegedly buying the operating system they developed from the company for $50,000 (Microsoft supporters said that when Microsoft and IBM had an agreement, Microsoft should not disclose the negotiation to the outside world). Microsoft used the IBM operating system (renamed PC-DOS) again after using this license. Microsoft also negotiated with other computer manufacturers to install the ms-dos system on each new computer and replace it. Afterwards, Seattle v. Microsoft Computer Company bought the company's products at a very low price without knowing it, but both parties finally reached an out-of-court settlement. Gates' reputation has not been damaged again because of the series of antitrust cases against Microsoft by the US government in the late 1990s.
Since1Gates used CD-ROM as a data storage medium in the mid-1980s, he actively promoted CD-ROM optimistically.
Gates was also accused of bad business practices. Gates repeatedly accused that under his leadership, many of Microsoft's business practices violated the law.
In 2000, Gates appointed his long-time friend Steve Ballmer as the CEO of Microsoft, and he was the chief software architect "(chief software designer Miller didn't know).
Privately, Gates married Linda French on 1 month 1 and 1994. They have three children: Jane Fokatherine Gates (1996), Rory John Gates (1999) and Phoebe Adele Gates (2002).
Mrs. Gates founded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Bill Gates Foundation and Challenge) with charity organizations. Critics believe that the establishment of public foundations is a response to the negative criticism of Microsoft monopoly. However, we should also note that no matter what the motivation, the foundation has made great contributions to providing scholarships for poor students and preventing AIDS.
The British Foreign Office announced in 2004 that Bill Gates would be awarded the jenn-air level(KBE) Queen's Medal of the British Empire in recognition of his outstanding contributions to enterprise development, employment, education and voluntary undertakings. The queen was awarded the honorary title of the highest foreign citizen.
Property value evaluation
According to Forbes magazine's list of global billionaires, Gates' wealth is as follows:
Ranked first with 1996- 185 billion dollars.
1997-364 billion, ranking second.
1998-5100000 USD, ranking first.
1999-900 billion, ranking first.
From 2000 to $60 billion, ranking first.
20065438+0-5.87 million USD, first
2002-$528 million, first
2003-407 billion, ranking first.
Award/honor record
It was rated as 200 1 the most influential person in the press 100 by The Guardian.
By the British "Sunday Times" as 1999 one of the most powerful people.
In the upswing of 1999, 100 won the second place among the elite.
Magazine 1998 50 ranked first in the network elite.
Sports news, 1997, sports 100 the most powerful person.
CEO Magazine 1994 CEO of the Year
Entomologists also named a flower bug after him as Gates's Ya Fei.
In 2004, he was knighted for the Queen of England.