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)United Way of America

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 95 Internet 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