Team+Microsoft

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=Bill Gates =

__Education __
In 1973 Bill Gates graduated from Lakeside school. Gates enrolled in Harvard University with a pre-law major to become an attorney. There are reports of Gates getting an A on an economics exam without ever attending the class, allegedly doing so by cramming the night before the exam. Gates dropped out of Harvard to become a computer programmer.

__Jobs __
When Gates was a teenager, he and a friend, Paul Allen, ran a small company that was called Traf - O - Data, a computer program that watched traffic sequences in Seattle. They eventually sold the program to the city.

__Volunteering and Foundations/Charitable Giving __
The William H. Gates Foundation, established by Gates and his wife in 1994, is dedicated to investing in low-income communities and supporting education and world health. Since its inception, nearly $23 billion, as of 200_, has been given away to poor countries for development in health and to help build the country up as a whole and for easy access to education for American families.

In 2000, combining various family foundations, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was created using $28 billion of Gates and his wife's own money. The main goal of this foundation is to dramatically reduce the amount of homeless families that live in Washington State. They do have many other missions, such as providing financial services to the poor, stopping the spread of HIV/AIDS, eradicating polio in the quickest way possible, and much more. This foundation is not only for America's benefit, it's for many other countries. This foundation has traveled around the globe in hopes of improving lives everywhere. In 2009 it committed approximately $1 billion to India for development and health projects, most of which went to AIDS prevention and the purging of polio. One such AIDS prevention initiative targeted 280,000 people in high-risk categories.

Mr. and Mrs. Gates, in the year 2005, donated the largest amount of money away in the fastest time, including nearly half a billion dollars to the Grand Challenges, in which they asked some of the world’s greatest minds in what way they would solve enormous problems, such as “inventing a vaccine needs no needles and no refrigeration”, if they held the money required.

__Patents __
Gates and 15 co-inventors were awarded U.S. Patent No. 8,012,023 for 'Virtual Entertainment'.

The patent originally filed in 2007, an electromagnetic engine was invented that could replace the traditional engine.

__Inventions __
Since the inception of Microsoft the company has created many inventions. These include, but are not limited to: Xbox, Xbox 360, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP, Home Edition Windows XP, Professional Windows Vista, Home Windows Vista, Home Premium Windows Vista, Business Windows Vista, Business Premium Windows Vista, Ultimate Windows server, and ALTAIR BASIC Interpreter.

__Salary __
Since 1975, when Gates and Paul Allen created Microsoft, Bill Gates' net worth has become $56 - $70 billion. Many know Gates as the world's richest man, but in fact the world's richest man is Carlos Slim with a net worth of $74 billion.

While Bill Gates is one of the world’s wealthiest persons, he doesn’t have the highest salary even at his own company. In just 1997 Robert Herbold, the Chief Operating Officer, made in one year a whopping $1.2 million in salary and bonus, while the president of Microsoft Europe, Bernard Vergnes, made $714,000 in a year. Gates, however, only made $591,000 in salary and bonus.

Even as early as 1992 Gates wasn’t the highest paid man at Microsoft. In that year, Vergnes out earned Gates by 40% as he was highly valued for building the European operation. Then in 1994 the company paid a huge sum in order to take Herbold from Proctor & Gamble, where he had been working for 25 years.

But seeing as even in 1997 Microsoft stock was worth $35 billion, Gates doesn’t have much to worry about. In fact, he is the only executive he has ever turned down for a salary increase.

__Business Success __
Gates is the worldwide leader in software services and technologies. He and Allen are the creators of the computer and its use has become a part of our everyday lives. Bill Gates is the chairman and CEO of Microsoft Corporation. Bill Gates stated in an article he wrote, "Microsoft's mission has been to continually advance and improve software technology, and to make it easier, more cost-effective and more enjoyable for people to use computers."

__Honors/Awards __
In addition to being named one of the most influential people of the 20th century by Time magazine, Gates, and his wife Melinda, was one of their 2005 People of the Year. Perhaps one of his most prestigious honors, Gates was named an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II.

Other significant awards and honors include the Order of the Aztec Eagle by the Mexican government in 2005 to Gates and his wife for health and education philanthropic efforts throughout the world and the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development in 2009 from the president of India, an annual award given to those that make creative efforts in “promoting peace, development and a new international economic order.” With the Gandhi Prize, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation received an award of $52,000 from the Indian government.

__Number of Users __
The personal computer, or the PC, sells 70 million units a year.