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BILL GATES & MICROSOFT

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

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BILL GATES & MICROSOFT

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  1. BILL GATES & MICROSOFT

  2. PLAN • I Bill Gates • II MICROSOFT • III The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

  3. 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)

  4. 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

  5. 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)

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. User Applications • Microsoft Office • Core: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook • Others: Access, FrontPage, Microsoft Project... • Internet Applications • Internet Explorer • Outlook Express • MSN Messenger

  9. Developpement • System/Network administration • SQL Serveur 2005, ... • Frameworks • Visual Studio .NET • Programming languages • Visual c#, c++, Basic

  10. Others • Media Player, Movie Maker • Microsoft Money • Encyclopedias and atlas Encarta • Games : Age of Empires, Flight Simulator • ...

  11. 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

  12. 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.

  13. 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

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