Bill gates to help the poor

Even though he is one of the richest man in the world,he always tried to help poor people by forming a charitable society.The intention was to help poor people by helping them in their studies and providing food and shelter.It is one of the largest charitable society.The main sponsors are the richest people itself.Even you can support the poor by providing some from your part for contacting them click here.For helping the AIDS people in india ,foundation provided 550000000 crores of indian rupees.They provided another huge amount for teaching the poor students via scholarships.Visit there site for more info bill & melinda gates foundation

Is his popularity behind windows success????

The popularity of bill gates begun as soon as he was selected as the richest man in the world.Before that he was familiar to those who know about windows but the real truth is that vast majority of people don't know about windows since they don't use computers much.But hearing about the richest man in the world they got some details about windows.His growth was so quick not even his rivals couldn't stop him.

The Corbis

This was started by bill gates.This includes vast collection of pictures ,videos in their digital format.This resources can be redistributed for the customers who buys it.All these datas are manipulated under the corperation of ironmountain and the datas are kept at a 220deep higly secured place at pennsylvania.Eventhough it is under microsoft it is not a profitable corperation.click here

Books of BILL GATES

1.Business at the speed of thought

2.the road ahead

their history

1975:Bill Gates and Paul Alan started their first company

at New Mexico named MICROSOFT (came from the

words micro computer and software)

1976:Microsoft became a registered trademark on novem-

ber 26.

1978:Company's first international office started in tokyo

on november 1

1979:Shifted their office from New Mexico to Washington

1981:Bill Gates became the first president and Paul Alan

the first executive officer on June 25.

1980:First operating system launched in the market na-

med XENIX .Launched the microprecessor micro-

soft softcard.

1981:launced PC-DOS for IBM on august 12.But cop-

yright was with in Microsoft.Changed this to MS.DOS

.Paul Alan became the vice president and Bill Gates as

its president.

1983:Built the software MSX-DOS for home computers

and made it more popular.More users from ameri-

ca,Europe.Paul Alan left microsoft.

1985:First version of windows(windows 1.0) launched.

1986:Headquarters changed to Redmond on february 14.

First share was sold for 21$ on march 13.Share price

increased to 28$.

1987:Launched microsoft book shelf in cd's.

1988:Bought data base management system from Sybase

and renamed as SQL server.

1989:New package for office use was relased including all

office application softwares like MS WORD,MS EXCEL

as MS OFFICE.

1990:Launched windows 3.0.This was intended to work

with INTEL 386 processors on may 22.

0.1 million copies sold in a week.

19991:Cancelled the contract with IBM and launched Visual

Basic.

1992:Launched windows 3.1 on march and MS ACCESS on november.

Sold 3 million copies of 3.1 in a month.

1993:Launched Microsoft encyclopedia named microcoft encarta

1995:Launched windows 95.Almost 90% of the operating system used

world wide was this.Launched internet explorer and MSN.

1997:Launched office 97.Internet explorer 4.0 released and the users of

Netscape decreased.

1998:Steve Ballmer became the prsident of MIcrosoft.Bill Gates as CEO.

Launched windows 98.

2000:Launched windows 2000 and windows millenium,windows millenium

was a complete failure.Steve Ballmer became CEO.

2001:Launched windows xp and X Box.

2002:started .NET

2004:Launched windows xp media centre edition.

2005:Made changes to MSN to compete with Ultimate GOOGLE.

2007:Launched windows VISTA and Office 2007.

2008:Launced windows server 2008,Visual studio on february 27.

June 27:Bill Gates officially left Microsoft and Steve Ballmer be-

came the chairman.