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Goodbye, Bill Gates Pictures GalleryAdvanced Photoshop Pictures Gallery - 19 image entries
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Bill Gates has officially left Microsoft this Friday.
While Bill planned his departure for years, it happens at a difficult time for Microsoft - the company struggles to compete with Google for search engine domination. Microsoft attempts to make its own "live search" popular were not successful, and the company is back to negotiations with Yahoo about the possible take-over of Yahoo search engine.
Before "Microsoft" was registered as a trade name in 1976, the partnership was called "Micro-soft" for a year before the hyphen was dropped. In the first years of Microsoft, Bill Gates actively wrote code, and personally reviewed every line of code that was written by other employees. Gates was always fascinated with programming and was often described as a geek or even nerd by people who studied with him.
He went from zero to hero with Microsoft, he brought us Windows, but now the captain is leaving the boat. Good bye, Bill!
To say good-bye to Bill Gates, photoshop him any way you wish. Some examples are: showing what alternative professions he could have chosen, Gates in movies and paintings, photoshopping Bill Gates as a nerd (in the current or early years),
showing how he will look in his senior years, etc.
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| | William Henry Gates III (born on October 28, 1955, Seattle more popular as Bill Gates) is an American businessman and co-chair of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. For the period from 1996 to 2007, Bill Gates was the richest person on planet according to magazine Forbes.
Along with Paul Allen, Bill Gates founded the Microsoft Corporation and left the post of President of Microsoft Corporation in June 2008.
Biography:
Gates was born in Seattle (Washington State) to corporate lawyer William Henry Gates II and Mary Maxwell Gates, member of board of directors of First Interstate Bank, Pacific Northwest Bell and national board “United Way”.
Gates studied at the most exclusive school of Seattle, where he could develop the programming skills on school’s minicomputer. In school, Gates was poor in grammar, civil administration and other subjects, since he considered them trivial but always got very good marks in mathematics. By the end of elementary school, Gates's bad behaviour began to upset his parents and teachers , so much so that , Gates was made to consult a psychiatrist.
In 1973, he took admission in Harward University but 2 years later, he took leave of absence and immediately engaged himself in software programming.
In 1975, along with Allen, Gates founded the company Micro-Soft, which was later on called Microsoft Corporation.
Bill Gates married Melinda French on January 1, 1994. The couple has three children — Jennifer Catherine, Rori John and Fibi Adele.
In 1994, Gates acquired Codex Leicester — collection of writings by Leonardo da Vinci. Since 2003, it is demonstrated in the Museum of Arts, Seattle.
In 1997, Gates became a victim of extortion from a citizen of Chicago Adam Quinn Pletcher. Gates gave evidences in the court. Pletcher was declared guilty and is sentenced in July, 1998 for six years in prison.
In his religious views, Gates, most likely, is agnostic. When the correspondent of magazine The Times asked, whether he believes in God, Gates answered: “I do not have any facts, testifying it”.
On 14th December, 2004, Bill Gates was included into council Berkshire Hathaway, thus formalizing the relations with Warren Buffett. Berkshire Hathaway —conglomerate, which includes Geico (automobile insurance), Benjamin Moore (paints) and Fruit of the Loom (textiles). Gates also is part of council Icos, biotechnological company Bothell.
On March 2, 2005, office of foreign affairs of Great Britain declared that Gates will receive title “Honorary Knight-Commander of the order of the British Empire for his investment in enterprises of Great Britain and his efforts to eliminate poverty in the world.
According to the results of 2005, Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates have been named “People of the year” by American magazine “Time”.
From June 7, 2007, Bill Gates was to be considered as the graduate of Harvard University. Decision to present the degree to Gates was taken by the University Administration.
On January 7, 2008, Bill Gates announced his intentions to put down his powers as the head of Microsoft Corporation in July, 2008 to switch his attention towards charity work.
June 27, 2008 was the last working day for Bill Gates as head of Microsoft Corporation. In spite of this, Bill Gates is not leaving the company for ever — Gates still remains the chairman of Board of Directors (but without executive powers) and will be engaged in special projects and also remains to largest (8.7 % of Microsoft shares) shareholder of Microsoft corporation. After retiring from the post, he is planning to devote himself to management of “Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation”.
Books of Bill Gates:
In 1995, Bill Gates authored a book “The Road Ahead”, in which, he wrote his views about the direction of movement of society with the development of information technologies.
In 1999, Bill Gates wrote a book “Business @ the Speed of Thought”, which shows, how information technologies can solve business problems in absolutely new manner.
Films about Bill Gates:
Pirates of Silicon Valley |
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