BILL GATES & MICROSOFT

PLAN

• I Bill Gates

• II MICROSOFT

• III The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

I Bill Gates

• Real name : William Henry III Gates• Birthday : 28th October 1955 in Seattle,

WASHINGTON• Status : Chairman of Microsoft• Father : Lawyer• Mother : Professor & Director of Direction of

some enterprises and bank (United Way of America for example)

I Bill Gates

• Discover computer sciences in LAKESIDE SCHOOL in SEATTLE

• 1973 : HARVARD first meeting with Steve Ballmer, future PDG of Microsoft

• 1996 becomes the richest man in the world with 51 MM$

• 2005 becomes KBE (Knight of British Empire) because of his action with his foundation

II MICROSOFT

• Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates founded Micro-Soft in 1975 (renamed MICROSOFT).

• fisrt realisation : BASIC for the ALTAIR 8800, the fisrt commercial micro-computer…

• 1980 : realisation of MS-DOS first OS (Operating System) for IBM

• based on QDOS : Quick and Dirty Operating System (in french : système d’exploitation vite fait mal fait)

II MICROSOFT

• 1983 : first WINDOWS to be concurrent against MAC OS of APPLE

• 1986 : MICROSOFT entry in bourse

• 1987 2007 : Windows 2.0, 3.0, NT, 95…

• Bill Gates announced he will leave the direction of MICROSOFT in 2008

Main technological evolutions

• 1981 – MS-DOS

• 1983 – Microsoft Windows

• 1889 – Microsoft Office

• 1995 – Microsoft Windows 95Internet Eplorer

• 2001 – Windows XP

• January 2007 – Windows Vista

User Applications

• Microsoft Office– Core: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook– Others: Access, FrontPage, Microsoft Project...

• Internet Applications– Internet Explorer– Outlook Express– MSN Messenger

Developpement

• System/Network administration– SQL Serveur 2005, ...

• Frameworks– Visual Studio .NET

• Programming languages– Visual c#, c++, Basic

Others

• Media Player, Movie Maker

• Microsoft Money

• Encyclopedias and atlas Encarta

• Games : Age of Empires, Flight Simulator

• ...

III The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

• Created in 2000 by Bill Gates

• Funded with $106 million, reached $2 billion in 2002

• Three grant-making programs:– Global Health Program – Global Development Program – United States Program

The Global Health Program

• President : Tachi Yamada – Eradication of polio : $86 billion (17% of the

world budget ) by year. – Global Alliance for Vaccines : $750 million

dollars in January 2005– AIDS : total of $287 million donated to

various researchers.

The Global Development Program

• President : Sylvia Mathews

• Aim of this branch : fighting against extreme poverty– $1.5 million has been donated to help 5

million families in Africa– $1.2 million/year given to find new ways to

improve hygiene services