2006-09-04 05:50:22 · 13 answers · asked by Rushi 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is the co-founder, chairman, former chief software architect, and former CEO of Microsoft. He is also the founder of Corbis, a digital image archiving company.
Forbes magazine's The World's Billionaires list has ranked him as the richest person in the world for the last twelve consecutive years. In 1999, Gates' wealth briefly surpassed $100 billion making him America's first centibillionaire.
According to the Forbes 2006 magazine, Bill Gates's current net worth is approximately $50 billion. When family wealth is considered, his family ranks second behind the Walton family.
Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. He is widely respected for his foresight and ambition.
He is also frequently criticized as having built Microsoft through unfair or unlawful business practices. Since amassing his fortune, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money (about 52% of his total fortune) to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, founded in 2000. In June 2006, Bill Gates announced that he would move to a part-time role with Microsoft (leaving day-to-day operations management) in 2008 to begin a career in philanthropy, but will remain as chairman; the announcement coincided with decisions by billionaire Warren Buffett to double the Gates Foundation, matching contributions $1.5 billion in stock per year for 20 years.
Bill Gates, his wife Melinda and U2's lead singer Bono were collectively named by Time as the 2005 Persons of the Year for their humanitarian efforts. That same year he was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II, which would entitle him to be known as Sir William Gates if he were a citizen of Britain or the Commonwealth. In 2006, Gates Foundation was awarded the Premio Príncipe de Asturias en Cooperación Internacional. In a list compiled by the magazine New Statesman in 2006, he was voted eighth in the list of "Heroes of our time".
2006-09-04 05:57:19 · answer #1 · answered by ♥♫♥ÇHÅTHÜ®ÏKÃ♥♫♥ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
(1) he tops the list of the richest men in the world with over $50 billion net worth
(2) windows was not his idea
(3) his house has been estimated to have cost $97 million
(4) he was arrested in new Mexico in 1997
(5) many people think bill gates is the anti Christ
take all the letters in Bill Gates III and then convert it in ASCII code (American standard code for information interchange) and then ADD up all the numbers...you will get 666, which is the number of the beast!!!
B = 66 I = 73 L = 76 L = 76 G = 71 A = 65 T = 84 E = 69 S = 83 I = 1 I = 1 I = 1__ = 666 !!!! THE NUMBER OF THE DEVIL
but some people will believe anything =0)
2006-09-04 13:10:09 · answer #2 · answered by Johnny Brigz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
His name is William H. Gates III
He was a computer programmer, and co-wrote a tiny BASIC interpreter for the Altair computer.
He co-founded Microsoft, with Paul Allen.
Today, he has the greatest "worth on paper" of any American, and is therefore called "The Richest Man in the World."
He got hit by a pie in the face in 1998.
Today, he is an active part of the "Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation," a philanthropic organization which is best known for arranging for vaccination of children in some developing countries.
2006-09-04 17:51:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. He just received Buffet's billions.
2. He and his wife, Melinda?, have a foundation dedicated to support educational initiatives.
3. He lives off the Hood Sound in Washington state.
4. He began his empire from his parents' garage.
5. He's shorter than I am.
2006-09-04 13:00:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He donated half of his fortune.
He supports aids research and education
He is a simple man
Although he has given so much oh his money away, he is still the worlds richest man.
He owns one of the biggest monopolies in the world.
2006-09-04 12:57:30 · answer #5 · answered by Apollo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
His house is so large it has its own zip code
He does a lot of work for his malaria charity
His wife is called Melinda
He is a college drop out
He owns Microsoft
His software is crap
Microsoft think they own the world
2006-09-04 12:58:28 · answer #6 · answered by Libby 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hes rich
he has power to do anything on the internet
he knows everythiong about computers
he was called a geek
he owns microsoft
2006-09-04 12:58:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
his names bill gates.
he owns microsoft.
he is very rich ( billionaire )
he wears glasses- that will be all the computor screens he stares at!
hes a man.
2006-09-04 12:53:38 · answer #8 · answered by dmit_3228 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is very wealthy.
He give lots of money away.
He wears glasses.
He was one of the founders of Microsoft.
He is American.
2006-09-04 12:56:40 · answer #9 · answered by keefer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's very rich and gives money to charities.
2006-09-04 13:01:54 · answer #10 · answered by Dominique M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋