bill gates

 

  • [92] Post-Microsoft Since leaving day-to-day operations at Microsoft, Gates has continued his philanthropy and works on other projects.

  • One of these systems was a PDP-10 belonging to Computer Center Corporation (CCC) which banned Gates, Paul Allen, Ric Weiland, and Gates’s best friend and first business partner
    Kent Evans, for the summer after it caught them exploiting bugs in the operating system to obtain free computer time.

  • [148][149][150] Bloomberg News reported him as saying he argued that Oxford University should not give away the rights to its COVID-19 information, as it had announced, but
    instead sell it to a single industry partner, as it did.

  • [54] Gates said he personally reviewed and often rewrote every line of code that the company produced in its first five years.

  • [85] During Microsoft’s early years, Gates was an active software developer, particularly in the company’s programming language products, but his primary role in most of the
    company’s history was as a manager and executive.

  • In the interview, Gates provided his perspective on climate change, his charitable activities, various tech companies and people involved in them, and the state of America.

  • IBM representative Jack Sams mentioned the licensing difficulties during a subsequent meeting with Gates and asked if Microsoft could provide an operating system.

  • [72] Management style Gates delivers a speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, January 2008 Gates had primary responsibility for Microsoft’s product strategy from
    the company’s founding from 1975 until 2006.

  • [17] Later in his career and since leaving day-to-day operations at Microsoft in 2008, Gates has pursued many business and philanthropic endeavors.

  • He has not officially been on a development team since working on the TRS-80 Model 100,[86] but he wrote code that shipped with the company’s products as late as 1989.

  • • Mologic, British diagnostic technology company that Gates purchased, along with the Soros Economic Development Fund, “which has developed 10-minute Covid lateral flow tests
    that it aims to make for as little as $1.

  • Although the two companies successfully developed the first version of the new system, the partnership deteriorated due to mounting creative differences.

  • Gates also identified innovation as the “real driver of progress” and pronounced that “America’s way better today than it’s ever been.

  • Tara Van Ho of the University of Essex stated, “Gates speaks as if all the lives being lost in India are inevitable but eventually the West will help when in reality the US
    & UK are holding their feet on the neck of developing states by refusing to break [intellectual property rights] protections.

  • [105] On March 13, 2020, Microsoft announced Gates would be leaving his board positions at Berkshire Hathaway and Microsoft to dedicate his efforts in philanthropic endeavors
    such as climate change, global health and development, and education.

  • It was the prestige brought to Microsoft by IBM’s adoption of their operating system that would be the origin of Microsoft’s transformation from a small business to the leading
    software company in the world.

  • [144] Political positions Regulation of the software industry See also: Bill Gates § Antitrust litigation, and United States v. Microsoft Corp.

  • “[87] On June 15, 2006, Gates announced that he would transition out of his role at Microsoft to dedicate more time to philanthropy.

  • [69] In August of the following year, the company struck a deal with IBM to develop a separate operating system called OS/2.

  • One was Mission Innovation, in which 20 national governments pledged to double their spending on research and development for carbon-free energy in over five years’ time.

  • The following year, a Lakeside teacher enlisted Gates and Evans to automate the school’s class-scheduling system, providing them computer time and royalties in return.

  • A few weeks later, Gates and Allen proposed using 86-DOS, an operating system similar to CP/M, that Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products (SCP) had made for hardware similar
    to the PC.

  • [11] In March 2020, Gates left his board positions at Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway to focus on his philanthropic efforts on climate change, global health and development,
    and education.

  • [96][97][98][99] In an interview that was held at the TED conference in March 2015, with Baidu’s CEO, Robin Li, Gates said he would “highly recommend” Nick Bostrom’s recent
    work, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies.

  • [74] In the early 1980s, while business partner Paul Allen was undergoing treatments for cancer, Gates — according to Allen — conspired to reduce Allen’s share in Microsoft
    by issuing himself stock options.

  • [127][128][129][130][131] • Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a closed fund for wealthy individuals who seek ROI on a 20-year horizon (see next section), which “is funding green
    start-ups and a host of other low-carbon entrepreneurial projects, including everything from advanced nuclear technology to synthetic breast milk.”

  • [9] In June 2008, Gates transitioned to a part-time role at Microsoft and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the private charitable foundation he and his
    then-wife, Melinda Gates, established in 2000.

  • [12] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Gates has widely been looked at by media outlets as an expert on the issue, despite him not being a public official or having any prior
    medical training.

  • IBM’s representatives also mentioned that they needed an operating system, and Gates referred them to Digital Research (DRI), makers of the widely used CP/M operating system.

  • In 1998, Gates rejected the need for regulation of the software industry in testimony before the United States Senate.

  • “[95] Gates has expressed concern about the potential harms of superintelligence; in a Reddit “ask me anything”, he stated that: First the machines will do a lot of jobs for
    us and not be super intelligent.

  • [62] IBM’s discussions with Digital Research went poorly, however, and they did not reach a licensing agreement.

  • He also berated them for perceived holes in their business strategies or proposals that placed the company’s long-term interests at risk.

  • He wrote, “I believe we can make this transition faster, both because the pace of innovation is accelerating, and because we have never had such an urgent reason to move from
    one source of energy to another.

  • He warned that it would cause “polarization” if users with different political views divide up among various social networks, and said: “I don’t think banning somebody who
    actually did get a fair number of votes (in the presidential election) – well less than a majority – but I don’t think having him off forever would be that good.

  • He gained a reputation for being distant from others; an industry executive complained in 1981 that “Gates is notorious for not being reachable by phone and for not returning
    phone calls.

  • In early 1983, Allen left the company after receiving a Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis, effectively ending the formal business partnership between Gates and Allen, which had been
    strained months prior due to a contentious dispute over Microsoft equity.

  • [146] Donald Trump Facebook ban On February 18, 2021, after Facebook and Twitter had banned Donald Trump from their platforms as a result of the 2020 United States presidential
    election which led to the 2021 United States Capitol attack, Gates said a permanent ban of Trump “would be a shame” and would be an “extreme measure”.

  • [83] Jerry Pournelle wrote in 1985 when Gates announced Microsoft Excel: “Bill Gates likes the program, not because it’s going to make him a lot of money (although I’m sure
    it will do that), but because it’s a neat hack.

  • [55] They dropped the hyphen within a year and officially registered the trade name “Microsoft” with the Secretary of the State of New Mexico on November 26, 1976.

  • [25] At the end of the ban, they offered to find bugs in CCC’s software in exchange for extra computer time.

  • [25] At 17, Gates formed a venture with Allen called Traf-O-Data to make traffic counters based on the Intel 8008 processor.

  • Gates was a major stake-holder early on in the project.

  • [138] The European Commission, European Investment Bank and Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Catalyst agreed at the 2021 UN Climate Change conference to work together to bring green
    technologies to market.

  • Brown collected for his business came from Gates around 2014 to 2017.

  • [104] That same year, Gates became an advisory board member of the Bloomberg New Economy Forum.

  • [58][59] IBM partnership IBM, the leading supplier of computer equipment to commercial enterprises at the time, approached Microsoft in July 1980 concerning software for its
    upcoming personal computer, the IBM PC,[60] after Bill Gates’s mother, Mary Maxwell Gates, mentioned Microsoft to John Opel, IBM’s CEO.

  • He gradually divided his responsibilities between two successors when he placed Ray Ozzie in charge of management and Craig Mundie in charge of long-term product strategy.

  • As of January 2014, most of Gates’s assets are held in Cascade Investment LLC, an entity through which he owns stakes in numerous businesses, including Four Seasons Hotels
    and Resorts, and Corbis Corp.[93] On February 4, 2014, Gates stepped down as chairman of Microsoft to become “technology advisor” at the firm, alongside CEO Satya Nadella.

  • [23] His father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way of America.

  • [102][103] In June 2019, Gates admitted that losing the mobile operating system race to Android was his biggest mistake.

  • [89] Antitrust litigation Further information: United States Microsoft antitrust case and European Union Microsoft competition case Gates giving his deposition at Microsoft
    on August 27, 1998 Gates approved of many decisions that led to antitrust litigation over Microsoft’s business practices.

  • The duo worked diligently in order to have the program ready for their senior year.

  • [2][3] During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president and chief software architect, while also being the largest
    individual shareholder until May 2014.

  • [26] Early in his life, Gates observed that his parents wanted him to pursue a law career.

  • [145] During the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) investigation of Microsoft in the 1990s, Gates was reportedly upset at Commissioner Dennis Yao for “float[ing] a line of
    hypothetical questions suggesting possible curbs on Microsoft’s growing monopoly power”.

  • It became the world’s largest personal computer software company.

  • Windows XP, released one year after Gates stepped down as Microsoft CEO, reportedly was the first to not be based on DOS.

  • [11][94] Gates provided his perspective on a range of issues in a substantial interview that was published in the March 27, 2014, issue of Rolling Stone magazine.

  • [52] He explained his decision to leave Harvard: “if things hadn’t worked out, I could always go back to school.

  • When they met again a month later, Gates “won or tied every game.

  • MITS president Ed Roberts agreed to meet them for a demonstration, and over the course of a few weeks they developed an Altair emulator that ran on a minicomputer, and then
    the BASIC interpreter.

  • [21] Early life Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington on October 28, 1955.

  • [34] When he was in the eighth grade, the Mothers’ Club at the school used proceeds from Lakeside School’s rummage sale to buy a Teletype Model 33 ASR terminal and a block
    of computer time on a General Electric (GE) computer for the students.

  • “[136] In 2015, he wrote about the challenge of transitioning the world’s energy system from one based primarily on fossil fuels to one based on sustainable energy sources.

  • [140] Gates has been criticised for holding a large stake in Signature Aviation, a company that services emissions-intensive private jets.

  • His parents were supportive of him after seeing how much he wanted to start his own company.

  • He stated that it was within their skill set of being the dominant player, but partially blames the antitrust litigation during the time.

  • [60] Gates oversaw Microsoft’s company restructuring on June 25, 1981, which re-incorporated the company in Washington state and made Gates the president and chairman of the
    board, with Paul Allen as vice president and vice chairman.

  • Gates then turned to Allen who helped him finish the system for Lakeside.

 

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