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Objective for selecting Bill Gates Early Life and Education Love of Computer Technology Entrepreneur in the Making Beginning of Microsoft Products of Microsoft Corporate Portfolio Activities by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Achievements and Awards Billionaires Club The Residence of Bill Gates Bibliography
Beginning of Microsoft
Registered on Nov 26, 1976 Headquarters Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington. IBM Project Project Chess in 1980 Launch of 1st retail version of MS- Windows on Nov 20, 1985. Development of MS DOS & sale of 100 million copies by 1990. Mission Statement To enable people and businesses throughout the world to realize their full potential.
Products of Microsoft
Operating System Versions
MS-DOS (developed jointly with IBM)
Release Years
1980
Windows NT 3.5
Windows NT 3.51 Windows NT (Full 32-bit kernel, no need of MS-DOS)
Products of Microsoft
Operating System Versions Windows 95 (Windows 4) Windows 98 (Windows 4.1) Windows NT 4.0 Windows Millennium Edition (Windows 4.9) Windows 2000 (Windows NT 5.0) Windows XP Windows Server 2003 Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs Windows Vista Windows Home Server Windows Server 2008 Windows 7 Release Years August 24, 1995 June 25, 1998 July 31, 1996
February 17, 2000 October 25, 2001 April 24, 2003 July 8, 2006
January 31, 2007 February 28, 2008 February 27, 2009 October 22, 2009
Corporate Portfolio
Chairman of Microsoft Corp. with stock of 8% - $18.7 billion. Co-chair person of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Chairman of Corbis Corp. CEO of Cascade Investment Pvt.Ltd. Director at Berkshire, Hathaway ( Warren Buffet) BOD of Chiroscience R&D Inc.
Bibliography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates http://marriage.about.com/od/entrepreneurs/p/billgates.htm http://www.notablebiographies.com/Fi-Gi/Gates-Bill.html http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_is_the_headquarters_of_Microsoft
http://hubpages.com/hub/Fun-Facts-about-Bill-Gates http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/default.mspx
http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/medical/story/2011/01/Bill-Gates-sets-goal-ofwiping-out-polio/43099368/1
http://www.thocp.net/biographies/gates_bill.htm
http://www.squidoo.com/gatessuccess
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