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Bill Gates


            
             (Bill) Gates - Chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft.
             He is reported to be the richest private individual in the.
             World topping the Forbes list of richest people for both 1996 and 1997.
             INVENTIONS.
             Gates and his pal Paul Allen produced two programs in the 8th grade: one played.
             tic-tac-toe. Before long, they were moonlighting as adolescent computer consultants for a local.
             corporation. In high school, Gates and his friends devised a program that analyzed traffic data.
             for his hometown.
             Windows takes over.
             Soon after Gates unveiled his Windows 3.0 program in 1990, the applications software.
             industry was crying uncle. Over 60 million copies of the Windows progam were sold, which.
             established Microsoft's operating system as the PC software standard and left companies like.
             Lotus and WordPerfect scrambling because they had been creating applications for IBM's.
             system, the OS/2. Six years after the Windows launch, Microsoft dominates the word processing.
             and spreadsheet mark.
             Corporation as Cult.
             The suburban Microsoft "campus," a cluster of 35 low-rise buildings, is set among lawns,.
             groves of white pines and shady courtyards that make the place resemble a college. But in.
             contrast to the sedate intellectualism of the average college, Microsoft rewards the brusque.
             "math camp" mentality: a lot of cocky geeks willing to wave their fingers and yell with the cute.
             conviction that all problems have a right answer. Among Gates favorite phrases is "That's the.
             stupidest thing I've ever heard," and victims wear it as a badge of honor, bragging about it the.
             way they do about getting a late-night E-mail from him.
             POSSESSIONS.
             Built into a bluff fronting Lake Washington, the home Gates has been working on for.
             more than four years has 40,000 square feet of living space and a vaulted 30-car garage.


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