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Biography of William Henry Gates, III
Name: William Henry Gates, III
Birth Date: October 28, 1955
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Seattle, Washington, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: businessman, chief executive officer, software developer
William Henry Gates, III
Microsoft co-founder and chief executive officer William (Bill) H. Gates III (born 1955) became the wealthiest man in America and one of the most influential personalities on the ever-evolving information superhighway and computer industry.William (Bill) Henry Gates III became the most famous businessman in recent history. His supreme accomplishment was to design and develop innovative software for the personal computer, making PC's universally popular machines. In user friendly language, communicating with computers is a matter of "translating" a person's native language into the codes that a computer understands. The easier this translation is to make, the easier it is to work with the computer and the more accessible and widely used the computer becomes. Gates' gift for software design, as well as his skills in business, made Microsoft, the company he cofounded with a high school friend in Richmond, Washington, a multi billion-dollar empire.Love of Computer TechnologyGates was born …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…goals and personality. Architects of the Future, Microsoft Corporation 1993 Annual Report contains product descriptions and marketshare analysis along with income statements and a discussion of litigation and federal agencies' inquiries. PC Week provides updates on the latest Microsoft products.For books about Bill Gates see: Encyclopedia of Computer Science, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1993 p 519. Gates, Bill with Nathan Myhevrold and Peter Rinearson, The Road Ahead. Ichbiah, David and Susan L. Knepper, The Making of Microsoft, Prima, 1991. Manes, Stephen and Paul Andrews, Gates, Doubleday, 1993. Slater, Robert, Portraits in Silicon, MIT Press, 1987. Wallace, James and Jim Erickson, Hard Drive, Wiley, 1992.For periodical articles about Bill Gates see: The Future of Microsoft. Economist, V327, May 22, 1993, pp. 25-27. Information Outlook, May 1997. National Review, January 27, 1997. New York Times, January 3, 1994. New Yorker, January 10, 1994, pp. 48-61.Newsweek, June 23, 1997. PC Magazine, March 25, 1997. Time, January 13, 1997. Another source of biographical information is Gate's official web page: http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/bio.asp.
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