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I chose to do Bill Gates.  William Henry Gates 111 was born on October 28, 1995. He is the 3rd richest person in the world. He is a chairman, philanthropist, and author. Gates works for Microsoft, he has been the richest man for 15 years in a row. He held position for CEO, he also is the largest individual shareholder with more then 8% of the common stock. Most business people criticize his business tactics. He is considered anticompetitive which has been brought up in courts. Later in his lifetime gates chased after philanthropic endeavors. He has donated tons of money to charities. Bill gates stepped down from his chief executive in January of 2,000. Later he would work part time for Microsoft, and full time for he and his wife's foundation. His full last day at the company was June 27, 2008. His father was a prominent lawyer, his mother was a board member for some banks. He 2 sisters, and he had the fourth name in his family. At 13 he enrolled at Lakeside School's an exclusive preparatory school. He was excused from math class to go to GE system. Around 1970 if they found bugs in CCC's software in order for computer time. Information science inc. hired the four students. Bill Gates wrote the school's computer schedule. He worked When he was 17 gates formed a venture with Allen called Traf-O-Data, to make traffic counters based on the Intel 8008 processor. In 1973 Bill Gates served as a congressional page in the U.S. House of the Representative. He graduated the school in 1973. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT's. He enrolled at Harvard in the collage fair in the fall of 1973. This in the mid-1990's ment your IQ was approxamently 170. In Harvard he would get aquantited with his future business partner, ( Steve Ballmer) which later in time he would make CEO of microsoft. He never had a plan to follow in Harvard. He would stay in touch with Paul Allen, and join him in Honeywell during the summer of 1974. The next year he, and Paul Allen would begin their own computer software program. His parents decided they would support him, seeing he did so well with computers. After reading P__//opular// Electronics__ Bill Gates contacted Micro Instruments and Telemetry Systems to tell them that someone else was working on a BASIC interpreter for the platform. Later PA would be hired into MITS, and Bill would leave Harvard at a time to work with him in Albuqurque in November of 1975. They would have their first company, and office and name it Micro-Soft. Within a year that hyphin would disappear, and that name would register with the office of the Secretary of the state of New Mexico. The hobbyists loved Mirosofts BASICS, but Gates had discovered that a pre-market copy had been distributed among the people. In Febuary of 1976 he wrote a letter to thehobbyists in the MITS newspaper saying they could not go any further without payment. This really set the hobbyists off and it diddn't float there boat at all. Microsoft finally broke of from MITS and ecame independent in the late 1976. It continued to make new software like language for certain systems. They moved they office to Washington in the year on January 1, 1979. In 1980 IBM approched microsoft, and Gates sent them to Digital Research but that went terrible. They came back and Gates proposed using 86-DOS. Microsoft made a deal with SCP to become exclusive licensing agent, and later became the full time owner. Microsoft delivered it to IBM for a one time fee of 50,000. Gate insisted that IBM let Microsoft keep the copy right they did, and the sales of MS-DOS made Microsoft a major player The company rreconstructed in 1981. Microsoft first launched Microsoft windows in November 20th, 1985. In August they struck a deal with IBM to come up with seperate operating sysytem called the OS/2. This deal would end on March 16, 1991, and work on NT kernal development. In 1998 there was a court case it was United States v.s. Microsoft case. The judge ruled Microsoft had committed monopolization, and tying, blocking competition, in violation to the sherman Antitrust Act. In 2008 he decided to show up in one of Microsoft's 90 second comercial. Gates got married in texas to Melinda French on January 1, 1994. They had 3 children. His house is 125 million, and he payes 991,000 dollars in taxes. He is a avid reader, loves to play bridge tennis and golf. In 1999 his wealth passed 101 billion causing the media to call him the centibillionare. For all my information I used [] [|• Bill Gates] click on Bill gates to see a picture. He a website on Bill Gates. He is his, and his wife's website with a couple of videos on it.