Date of birth: October 28, 1955
Zodiac sign: Scorpio
Nickname: "Computer Prodigy" "Lefty"
Most Favorite Singer: JOHM LENNON
Favorite Thing: Hamburgers and Coke
Who I Admire: Napoleon Warren Buffett
Motto: "I'm the King" "I can win"
<Ideal: to lead the world down the road to the future of time
Social: reluctant to initiate contact with people, but very prone to high spirits in a state of repression
Emotions: sudden panicked anger
Ideas: in the 21st Century, computers and the Internet will lead to a more even distribution of wealth and power everywhere.
Management: The "propeller mind" and "Darwinian management" are the most effective means of operating Microsoft. The digital neural system is the inevitable model for the future of management.
电子邮箱:askbill@microsoft.com(If you send an email directly to this mailbox, the chance of Gates himself reading it is almost 0. His secretary has to screen emails for him every day, and it is almost impossible for non-@microsoft, non-work emails to reach Gates)
Bio
Nowadays, if you have a personal computer on your desk, a PC, a computer that you can use for work, or a computer that you can use for other purposes, you will be able to get the information you need from your computer. Nowadays, if you have a personal computer on your desk, it almost certainly has a Microsoft operating system on it. Bill Gates made the personal computer an everyday object, and in doing so, changed the way every modern person works, lives, and even interacts. It has been said that Bill Gates is to software what Thomas Edison was to the light bulb.
Bill Gates's childhood was spent in Seattle, Washington, the United States, Seattle is the United States of America Boeing's base, nearly half of the city's workers in the company's work, so people also called Seattle Boeing City. It is one of the three major gateways to the west coast of the United States, along with San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Gates, a 7-year-old boy with sandy-colored hair, loves to read the World Book Encyclopedia over and over again. He often reads the book, which is almost 1/3 of his body weight, for hours on end, word for word, from cover to cover. He often fell into deep thought, and seemed to have a strong sense of what a magical and magical world lay within the small words and the huge book! The symbols of words were able to record and spread the interesting things that had happened to people before him and to people all over the world. He thought, "Human history is getting longer and longer, so won't the encyclopedias in the future be bigger and heavier! Can have any good way to build a magic box so big, it can be all-encompassing to put a large encyclopedia in, how convenient. This wonderful spark of thought, and then actually realized to him, and even smaller than a cigarette box, as long as a small chip on the line.
Gates read more and more books and thought more and more. Once he suddenly said to his fourth-grade classmate Carl Edmond: Instead of being a grass in the lawn, it would be better to become an oak tree towering over a bald hill. For the grass is uniform and impersonal, while the oak stands tall and proud. He insisted on writing a diary, write down his own thoughts at any time, a small age is often like a grown-up thoughtful. He realized early on that human life is not easy to come by, and that we should treasure this precious opportunity of not being alive. He wrote in his diary: life is a grand appointment, for a person, the most important thing in life is to keep the supreme promise put forward by the accumulation of human reason ...... So what is the promise? It is to do something amazing. He wrote in another diary: Perhaps human life is a burning fire, and all one can do is to do one's best to salvage something out of that fire. This? The sense of chasing after life is rarely found in children of the same age.
Whether it was the promise that Gates was thinking about, or whether it was chasing after something to salvage from life, it manifested itself in Gates's daily actions in the form of any schoolwork and homework assigned by his teachers, whether it was playing an instrument, or writing an essay, or competing in a sports game, which he would dedicate all his efforts to, and take all the time he needed to complete to the best of his ability.
The teacher assigned his fourth-graders a four- or five-page essay on the role of the human body. As a result, Gates used the encyclopedias and other medical, physiological and psychological books in his father's study to write more than 30 pages in one sitting. Another time the teacher assigned students to write a story of no more than 20 pages, Gates floated, but wrote up to 100 pages of magical and twisted story, so that the teacher and students are very surprised! People say he: no matter what Gates do, he always like to come to the top, not a sound, a sound, otherwise he is not willing.
Gates also showed this spirit of not falling behind in sports and social activities. There was a summer scout's 80 kilometers hiking march, the time is a week, he wore a brand new pair of high boots, apparently the new shoes do not quite fit, 13 kilometers of hiking march every day, and climbing, and through the forest, so that he ate all the pain, the first night, his heel rubbed through the skin, toes on the blisters of many. He gritted his teeth and insisted on walking. On the second night, his feet were very red and swollen, and the cracked skin was bleeding. Companions advised him to stop advancing, but he shook his head, just to the accompanying doctor to point out cotton wool and gauze bandage, and asked for some painkillers to take, continue on the road. He continued on his way until he reached a checkpoint on the way, when the team leader realized that his foot was badly inflamed and ordered him to get medical treatment, and only then did he stop the march. Gates's mother came from Seattle, saw his feet ulcerated appearance, sadly cried, and complained why his son did not stop the march earlier. Gates, however, said blandly? It's a pity I didn't reach my destination this time.
In 1969, Gates was in Seattle's Lakeshore High School in the United States was the first school to offer a computer program. At that time there was no PC, the school only got a terminal, or from the community and parents to collect a large amount of money to buy. This terminal is connected to other units have a small electronic computer PDP - 10, can only be used for a short period of time each day, the cost per hour is also very high. Gates like the discovery of a new continent, as long as there is time, will be drilled into the computer room to operate the terminal, almost to the point of sleep and food. 13 years old, he independently programmed the first computer program, you can play on the computer screen the moon soft landing game. July 20 of that year happened to be the day that American astronauts Ames Mullen and Aldrin took the Lunar Module and set foot on the surface of the moon for the first time on behalf of mankind. Gates thought to himself, I can not take the spaceship to the moon, then let me use the computer to realize my dream of landing on the moon!
But the good times didn't last long, after only six months, Lakeshore Middle School no longer had the money to pay the rent for the use of the expensive PDP--10 minicomputer. It was as painful for Gates as the loss of his schooling, because by this time he was obsessed with computers to the point of obsession. So he and his classmates ran around and finally found an opportunity to help a computer company called CCC to catch bedbugs, and use the payment for removing the bugs to pay for the cost of operating their computers. What do I mean by bugs? It's a synonym for what people in the computer industry call bugs in software, i.e., pesky bedbugs (Bugs). Because once the bugs, will make the computer to export the wrong results or crash, the United States sent to Venus Mariner rocket and the French authority Liana rocket, because of computer software failure (bugs) and make the launch failure, the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars. Gates excitedly asked a few computer enthusiasts from his classmates to ride their bicycles to work there at about 6:00 p.m. every night, after the CCC employees were off duty. There were many teletypewriter terminals available, and all kinds of computer software could be studied to their heart's content, which was really like a fish out of water. Gates was so fascinated by computer software that he stayed there almost all night, as obsessed as he had been in grade school when he set out to make a new name for himself, and every night he filled a CCC logbook with a computer bug he and his buddies had discovered. Through this period of time to catch bedbugs, Gates made himself in the computer hardware and software to learn a lot of books and school can not learn the knowledge and skills for future research and development, laying a profound foundation.
By 1970, when Gates was 15 years old, his computer talents were already well known. A company called Information Sciences approached Gates, hoping to offer computer time using the PDP-10 in exchange for software skills from Gates and his classmate Paul. Since, by U.S. law, minors cannot be paid, the company decided to pay them $10,000 worth of computer time for designing payroll management software for the company. In 1971, Lakeshore Middle School asked Gates to design a set of computer software for scheduling classes. At the time, scheduling was done manually, and because of the large number of students and the complexity of the courses, the scheduling was often uneven, resulting in overcrowding in certain courses. Gates successfully completed this difficult task, which in turn enabled him to extend his valuable time using computers.
In 1973, the U.S. defense project contractor TRW to develop a set of computer supervisory and control system for managing reservoirs, but the old can not eliminate a variety of computer bugs, slow progress, look to be punished for breach of contract. In this emergency, TRW learned of Gates and Paul two little computer geniuses, they asked for help, and the two boys happily agreed. It was a very specialized and difficult job, and as a rule, high school students could only get the low wages of work-study students. But Gates didn't mind; his main goal was to improve and hone his software design skills through this kind of work. Lakeshore High School was also open-minded enough to allow upperclassmen to intern and work in companies after completing their required courses. Thanks to Gates and Paul, it was finally possible for TRW to complete the project on time and avoid a huge fine. In turn, Gates and Paul received specific instruction from one of the company's computer specialists, allowing both to improve their software skills.
Young Gates In the early 1970s, Gates shocked the computer world by writing his famous Open Letter to Enthusiasts. Gates declared that computer software would be a huge commercial market and that computer hobbyists should not feel free to copy computer programs without the consent of the original authors. The computer world at the time was influenced by the hacker culture and believed that creativity and knowledge should be ****enjoyed. Gates then left campus and single-handedly founded Microsoft, one of the world's most successful companies, and gradually industrialized software.
In 1975, at the age of 19, Gates predicted: "We realize that the age of software is upon us, and we have enough insight into the long-term potential of the chip to mean what? The software industry will never wait for me where I am if I don't seize the opportunity now instead of finishing my Harvard degree."
But one of Gates' business maneuvers that has often called for criticism is the origin of MS-DOS. In the late 1970s, IBM was planning to enter the personal computer market and officially launched the IBM Personal Computer (PC) in 1981.IBM needed to find a suitable operating system for its products, based on the Intel x86 family of processors.IBM found Microsoft after brief negotiations with another company. Microsoft, in turn, without telling IBM that it was negotiating with them, approached Seattle Computer to buy the operating system they had developed from them for a reported $50,000 (Microsoft supporters claim that there was an agreement between Microsoft and IBM at the time that Microsoft was not to disclose the negotiation to outsiders). Microsoft then later licensed the operating system (which has been renamed PC-DOS) to IBM. Microsoft also negotiated with other computer manufacturers to install the altered MS-DOS system on every new computer. Seattle Computer later sued Microsoft for purchasing the company's products at very low prices without telling them the facts, but the two sides eventually settled out of court. Gates' reputation was tarnished again by a series of U.S. government monopoly suits against Microsoft in the late 1990s.
Gates was optimistic about the future of the optical disk as a data storage medium in the mid-1980s and aggressively promoted the CD-ROM, but just last year he announced that the DVD would become obsolete.
When Apple's applied the mouse to the user interface in 1983 with its new Lisa product, it was a revolution in the personal computer industry. Gates immediately recognized the importance of a friendly graphical interface.
In 1990, Microsoft launched WINDOWS 3.0.
In 1995, Microsoft launched the Windows 95 operating system, which is a truly epoch-making software. It allowed users to get rid of the cumbersome and boring DOS commands, thus making personal computers extremely easy to use.
The Road Ahead, published in 1995, topped the New York Times bestseller list for seven weeks. Some of the book's predictions have come true.
Gates has also been accused of business misconduct. Gates was repeatedly sued for many of Microsoft's business practices under his leadership that violated U.S. law (antitrust laws). And was subjected to numerous lawsuits and was in danger of being split up. It is quite interesting to note that at the end of the 20th century, the two Bills (Bill Clinton and Bill Gates) ran into lawsuits and trouble almost simultaneously.
In 1998, Microsoft launched Windows 98, which was widely welcomed and Microsoft consolidated its dominance in the computer software industry.
In 1999, Gates authored the book "Future Tense," which showed how computer technology could solve business problems in new ways. The book was published in more than 60 countries and in 25 languages. Future Tense has won critical acclaim and has been listed as a bestseller in The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and Amazon.com.
In 2000, Gates named his longtime friend Steve Ballmer as Microsoft's chief executive and himself "Chief Software Architect.
Towards the end of 2001, Microsoft launched Windows XP, and Gates himself came to Times Square to promote it.
On March 10, 2006, the 2006 Forbes "World's Richest People" was announced, and for the 12th consecutive year, Microsoft's Bill Gates became the world's richest person, with his net worth increasing from 4.5 million to 4.5 million. Microsoft's Bill Gates became the world's richest person for the 12th consecutive year, increasing his net worth from $46.5 billion to $50 billion.
On April 18, 2006, Chinese President Hu Jintao visited Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, near Seattle. Gates and Steve Ballmer met with Hu and gave him a tour of Microsoft's Home of the Future. At about 18:30 p.m., Hu attended a dinner hosted by Gates at his home.
On June 15, 2006, Gates announced that he would retire in July 2008, when he would step down as chief software designer and no longer participate in Microsoft's management. At the time of the announcement, Gates appeared relatively calm, but could not hide the atmosphere of some sadness, some employees even tears. Gates will concentrate on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to which Gates donated tens of billions of dollars of his family's money, and said he would leave only a few million dollars for his three children. A Microsoft employee said, "There is no doubt that his generosity has brought hundreds of thousands of people back to life." Shortly thereafter, stockbroker Warren Buffett announced that he would donate $30 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, provided the Gateses were still alive!
After that...
Late 2006-early 2007, Windows Vista will arrive as promised. Gates is now busy with his last big thing as chief software designer, and after July 2008, the most sacred position at Microsoft will go to Ray Oates. After that, he will devote himself to his foundation, but this does not mean that he will be indifferent to Microsoft - he said that after the retreat will still be concerned about the development of Microsoft, and in due course to provide constructive advice.