Bill Gates

             He was failed in his college examination but not in his life. He never stood excellent in formal education but in his livings. he was left a far behind in each and every examination by his friends. But he had hidden creativity and managerial skill. Such quality, after all, made him a recognized fellow of the modern world who is providing employment to those friends who left he behind in each college examination. Nowadays, he becomes an icon to them.

             He was non-other than Bill Gates, one of the world's wealthiest people and the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. He was born as William Henry "Bill" Gates III on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington, to William h. Gates, Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates, the Scottish descent. His family was upper middle class. His father served on the board of directors for First Interstate Banc System and the United Way. So, Gates had a comfortable upbringing.

            At 13, Gates enrolled in the Lakeside School, an exclusive preparatory school. When he was in the eight grade, the Mothers Club at the school used to buy an ASR-33 teletype terminal and a block of computer time on a General Electric (GE) computer for the school's students. Gates took an interest in programming the GE system in BASIC. He wrote his first computer program on this machine. Gates was fascinated by the machine and how it would always execute software code perfectly. After the Mothers Club donation was exhausted, he and other students sought time on systems including DEC PDP minicomputers. One of these systems was a PDP-10 belonging to Computer Center Corporation (CCC).

            Bill Gates started studying at Harvard University in 1973 where he spent time with Paul Allen. Gates and Allen worked on a version of the programming language BASIC that was the basic for the MITS Altair (the first microcomputer available). There he met his future business partner, Steve Ballmer, whom he later appointed as CEO of Microsoft and computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou at Harvard, with whom he collaborated on a paper about pancake sorting. He remained in regular contact with Paul Allen. The following year there released the MITS Altair 8800 based on the Intel 8080 CPU, and Gates and Allen saw this as the opportunity to start their own computer software company. He had talked this decision over with his parents, who were supportive of him after seeing how much Gates wanted to start a company.

            After dropping out of Harvard Bill Gates and his partner Paul Allen set about revolutionizing the computer industry. Gates believed there should be a computer on ever office desk and in every home.In 1975 the company Micro-soft was formed, which was an abbreviation of microcomputer software. It soon became simply "Microsoft" and went on to completely change the way people use computers. Microsoft helped to make the computer easier to use with its developed and purchased software, and made it a commercial success.

                 From Microsoft's founding in 1975 until 2006, Gates had primary responsibility for the company's product strategy. He aggressively broadened the company's range of products, and wherever Microsoft achieved a dominant position he vigorously defended it. Gates role at Microsoft for most of its history was primarily a management and executive role. However, he was an active software developer in the early years, particularly on the company's programming language products. The Microsoft monopoly sets about completely dominating every market it enters either through acquisition, aggressive business tactics or a combination of them. Many of the largest technology companies have fought legally against the actions of Microsoft, including Apple Computer, Netscape, Opera, WordPerfect, and sun Microsystems.

               With an estimated wealth of $53 billion in 2006, Bill Gates stood the richest man in the world. being the richest man in the world has also enabled Gates to create one of the world's largest charitable foundations. The foundation was formed in 2000 after merging the "Gates Learning foundation" and "William H. Gates Foundation". their aim is to "bring innovations in health and learning to the global community". Bill Gates continues to play a very active role in the workings of the Microsoft Company, but has handed the position of CEO over to Steve Ballmer. Gates now holds the positions of "Chairman" and "Chief Software Architect".

                Gates has received honorary doctorates from Nyenrode Business University, Breukelen, The Netherlands in 2000; the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden in 2002; Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan in 2005; Harvard University in June 2007 and from Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, in January 2008. In March 2005 William H. Gates received an "honorary" knighthood from the queen of England. Gates was bestowed with the KBE Order (knight Commander of the Most Excellent order of the British Empire) for his services in reducing poverty and improving health in the developing countries of the world. Time magazine named gates one of the 100 people who most influenced the 20th century, as well as one of the 100 most influential people of 2004, 2005, and 2006. And he is still living an influential life.