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Biography
Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington to William Henry Gates, Jr., a corporate lawyer, and Mary Maxwell, board member Pacific Northwest Bell, First Interstate Bank and the national board of United Way. Gates went to Lakeside School, Seattle's most exclusive prep school, and later on went to study at Harvard University, but dropped out without graduating.

While he was a student at Harvard, he co-authored with Paul Allen the original Altair BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800 (the first commercially successful personal computer) in the mid 1970s. It was inspired by BASIC, an easy-to-learn programming language developed at Dartmouth College for teaching purposes.
Gates married Melinda French on January 1, 1994.

They have three children, Jennifer Katharine Gates (1996), Rory John Gates (1999) and Phoebe Adele Gates (2002). They live in a very large earth sheltered home in the side of a hill overlooking Lake Washington.

It is a very modern 21st century house in the "Pacific lodge" style, with advanced electrical and electronic systems everywhere. In one respect though it is more like an 18th or 19th century mansion: It has a large private library with a domed reading room.

Also in 1994, he acquired the Codex Leicester, a collection of writings by Leonardo da Vinci; as of 2003 it was on display at the Seattle Art Museum.

Microsoft Corporation
In 1975, Gates and Allen co-founded Microsoft Corporation to market their version of BASIC, called Microsoft BASIC. It was the primary interpreted computer language of the MS-DOS operating system, and was key to Microsoft's early commercial success.

Microsoft BASIC evolved into Microsoft QuickBasic and QBasic, Visual Basic, and later still, Visual Basic .NET.

In February 1976, Gates wrote the Open Letter to Hobbyists, which shocked the computer hobbyist community by asserting that a commercial market existed for computer software. Gates stated in the letter that software should not be copied without the publisher's permission, which he equated to piracy.

Aged 21, police photo for a minor traffic violation, Albuquerque, Dec 13, 1977.

To supplement this information I reproduces the images of APPLE II. Produced in 1977

Microsoft used this photo in a German advertisement with the slogan "Good that there are no speed limits for software". Bill Gate appearance in 1978

While legally correct, Gates's proposal was unprecedented in a community that was influenced by its ham radio legacy and hacker ethic, in which innovations and knowledge were freely shared in the community. Nevertheless, Gates was right about the market prospects and his efforts paid off: Microsoft Corporation became one of the world's most successful commercial enterprises, and a key player in the creation of a retail software industry.

In the process, Gates developed a debatably unsavory reputation for his business practices. A case in point concerns the origins of MS-DOS.

In the late 1970s, IBM was planning to enter the personal computer market with its IBM Personal Computer (PC), after the Bell Canada President, nominated by Trudeau trough the Prime Minister's Office, James Thackray.

Thackray exported, in the late 1978, the company's telecommunications expertise "Télidon which fusion informatics technology and Telecommunication" to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other Middle East countries

Bell Canada corporation owned Telesat at 100%.

In 1979, Bill Gates ( Mom board member Pacific Northwest Bell ) and Paul Allen, founders of Microsoft, Inc., moved their then-small company from Albuquerque, New Mexico to the suburbs of their native Seattle.

IBM needed an operating system for its new computer, which was based on the newly developed, 16-bit architecture of the Intel x86 processor family. After briefly negotiating with another company (the Digital Research Corporation in California), IBM approached Microsoft.

Without revealing their ties with IBM, Microsoft executives in turn approached Seattle Computer, which had developed an x86-based operating system, and purchased the operating system for a reported sum of $50,000.

(In Microsoft's defense, they may have been under agreement not to discuss their talks with IBM, so they really couldn't have revealed their ties.)

Microsoft subsequently licensed the operating system to IBM (which released it under the PC-DOS name) and worked with computer manufacturers to include its own version, called MS-DOS, with every computer system sold.

The IBM Personal Computer (PC) was released in 1980.

The IBM name covert up could also be identified in Canada at the CTRSM.

Spectacularly successful, this deal was challenged in court by Seattle Computer on the grounds that Microsoft had concealed its relationship with IBM in order to purchase the operating system cheaply; subsequently, there was a 150 millions settlement, but no admission of duplicity or guilt. Gates' reputation was further sullied by a series of major antitrust actions brought both by the U.S. Department of Justice and individual companies against Microsoft in the late 1990s.

In the mid-1980s Gates became excited about the possibilities of compact disc for storage, and sponsored the publication of the book CD-ROM: The New Papyrus that promoted the idea of CD-ROM.
It is incontestable that Gates has played hardball in the software industry. It has also been established in a court of law, and unanimously affirmed on appeal by a pro-business appellate court, that his company, under his leadership, repeatedly and egregiously engaged in business practices that violated U.S. laws.
In 2000, Gates promoted long-time friend and Microsoft executive Steve Ballmer to the role of Chief Executive Officer and took on the role of "Chief Software Architect".

William H Gates

a	William H. Gates, Sr. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

William Henry Gates Sr. (born 1925) is the co-chair and CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. His son, William Henry Gates III, is the co-founder of Microsoft and one of the richest men in the world.

Note: Gates, Sr. is actually William Henry Gates, Jr. since his father was also named William Henry Gates.

However, with the success of his son, the middle Gates has become known as Sr. and his son as Jr.
Gates was born in Bremerton, Washington, and enlisted in the U.S. Army after graduation from high school.

He served in the army and fought in World War II. In November of 1946 he was honorably discharged from the army, and he enrolled in the University of Washington (UW) under the G.I. Bill, where he earned a Bachelor's degree in 1949 and a law degree in 1950.

He married Mary Maxwell Gates, whom he met at UW, and who died in 1994. With her he had three children, Kristi, Bill, and Libby.

In 1996 Gates married Mimi Gardner Gates, who is director of the Seattle Art Museum. He practiced law until 1998, primarily at the company now known as Preston Gates & Ellis (PGE), which he co-founded as Shidler & King in 1964.
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the title generally given to the highest member of day-to-day management in a corporation who usually has the ultimate executive authority within an organization or company.
The CEO usually reports to, and is a member of, the company's board of directors. The CEO may also be the chairman of the board or the company president in small businesses, but these roles are often separated in larger organizations, to prevent the company from becoming dominated by a single personality, and to prevent a conflict of interest against the owners (the share holders).

In the United States this is a title used by the highest authority within most businesses, regardless of their actual size. In other English speaking countries (most notably British Commonwealth countries) the term is used mainly in publicly traded corporations, and in privately held companies the term Managing Director is much more common.

First Interstate Bank at Seattle, Washington

The Space Needle
Seattle is the largest city in the state of Washington, and in the northwestern United States. It is situated between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, about 108 miles (180 km) south of the Canadian border, in King County, of which it is the county seat. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 563,374. The first white settlers arrived in 1851 at Alki Point, and the first plats for the Town of Seattle were filed in 1853. The city was incorporated in 1869, after having existed as an incorporated town from 1865 to 1867.

Seattle is named after Noah Sealth, chief of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes, better known as Chief Seattle. David Swinson ("Doc") Maynard, one of the city founders, was the primary advocate for naming the city after Chief Seattle. Previously, the city had been known as Duwamps (or Duwumps); that name is preserved in the Duwamish River.

Claims to fame: landmarks, character, and notable events

Seattle's Pike Place Market
The Space Needle is possibly Seattle's most famous landmark, featured in the logo of the television show Frasier, and dating from the 1962 Century 21 Exposition, a World's Fair. The monorail constructed for the Exposition still runs today between Seattle Center and downtown. It will be torn down when the new, mass-transit monorail is built from Ballard through downtown to West Seattle.

Other famous landmarks include the Smith Tower, Pike Place Market (pictured), and the Experience Music Project.
In 1981, Seattle held a contest to come up with a new official nickname. The winner, selected in 1982, was the Emerald City, a slogan submitted by Californian Sarah Sterling-Franklin, and referring to the lush surrounding nature due to the frequent rain. From 1869 to 1982, Seattle's official nickname was the Queen City.

Seattle is sometimes referred to as the "rainy city", even though it gets less rain than many other U.S. cities. It is also known as Jet City, due to the heavy influence of Boeing.

Seattle is known as the home of grunge music, has a reputation for heavy coffee consumption, and was the site of the 1999 meeting of the World Trade Organization shut down by anti-globalist demonstrators.

A 60 Minutes story on the success of Medic One that aired in 1974 called Seattle "the best place in the world to have a heart attack." Some accounts report that Puyallup, Washington, an area south of Seattle, was the first place west of the Mississippi to have 911 emergency telephone service.

Seattle's First Hill is also known as "Pill Hill" because, in addition to being the current home of Harborview, Swedish, and Virginia Mason, it was also once the location of the Maynard, Seattle General, and Doctors Hospitals (now merged into Swedish), as well as Cabrini Hospital.

Companies
Until 2001, Seattle was home to Boeing. Following a bidding war in which several cities offered huge tax breaks, Boeing moved its corporate headquarters to Chicago. The Seattle area is still home to Boeing's commercial airplanes division and several Boeing plants. Other companies whose headquarters still remain in Seattle include:

AT&T Wireless , Eddie Bauer, Microsoft, and Nintendo of America are based in the suburb of Redmond. The Frank Russell Company, Labor Ready, Inc, and Weyerhaeuser are based in nearby Tacoma. Expedia.com, PACCAR, drugstore.com, and T-Mobile USA are based in Bellevue. Costco is based in Issaquah. R.E.I is based in Kent.

Seattle has a history of boom and bust, or at least boom and quiescence. Seattle has almost been sent into permanent decline by the aftermaths of its worst periods as a company town, but has typically used those periods to successfully rebuild infrastructure. There have been at least four such cycles:

The lumber-industry boom, followed by the construction of an Olmsted-designed park system; arguably the Klondike gold rush constituted a separate, shorter boom.

The shipbuilding boom, followed by the unused city development plan of Virgil Bogue.
The Boeing boom, followed by general infrastructure building.

Most recently, the boom based on Microsoft and other software, Internet, and telecommunications companies, such as Amazon.com, RealNetworks, and AT&T Wireless; although the aforementioned companies remain relatively strong, the boom definitely ended in 2000.

Strange coincidence with the two 1999 ACILR-CDRIL document publicly disclose

First one : THE ABRIDGEMENT
DATED JUNE 25, 1999
THE FACTUAL ACCOUNT OF AUTHOR’S POLITICAL EXILE

Second one And Third one : THE ABRIDGEMENT – ADDENDUM 1

Another Microsoft Strange coincidence happen also in 1979 before ACILR-CDRIL document were publicly disclose and could explain this moving and the Bell Canada President, the direct association.

By 1985, sales were over $140 million, by 1990, $1.18 billion, and by 1995, Microsoft was the world's most profitable corporation, Allen and Gates were billionaires, and literally thousands of their past and present employees were millionaires.

Microsoft spawned a host of other companies in the Seattle area: millionaire employees often left to found their own companies, and Allen, after his own departure from Microsoft, became a major investor in new companies. Seattle-area companies that owe their origins at least indirectly to Microsoft include RealNetworks, Attachmate Corp., Infospace, and a host of others. Quite unlike Boeing, Microsoft has served as a catalyst for the creation of a whole realm of industry. Microsoft has also taken a much more active hand than Boeing in public works in the area, donating software to many schools (including the University of Washington).

Seattle has also been experiencing quite good growth in the biotechnology and coffee sectors, and Seattle-based Nordstrom is now a national brand.

Paul Allen, whose fortune was made through Microsoft though he has long since ceased to be an active participant in the company, has been a major force in Seattle politics, for better or worse. He attempted a voter initiative to build the Seattle Commons, a huge park in South Lake Union and the Cascade District, and even offered to put up his own money to endow a security force for the park, but it failed to pass. (Allen is now the leader of the movement to redevelop this same area as a biotech center.) He did get a football stadium for the Seattle Seahawks through a successful statewide ballot initiative, and founded the Experience Music Project (originally intended as a Jimi Hendrix museum) on the grounds of Seattle Center.

The first great street confrontation between the anti-globalization movement and the World Trade Organization took place in Seattle on November 30, 1999. While many of those in the streets, and most of those in the suites, the were from out of town or even out of country, much of the groundwork of Seattle hosting both the event and the protests against it can be attributed to local forces.

Seattle today is physically and demographically not so different from the Seattle of the 1960s. It is still filled with single family households, still mostly white with as many Asians as blacks, still liberal, still with about half a million people, still almost entirely without a centralized method of planning. The suburbs have grown, but they are also in essentially the same state as before, if a little more independent. Seattle's economy is more vibrant now, and richer, and there is certainly in increase in cultural activity, but the largest employer is still Boeing. The Commons was defeated, just as Jim Ellis was in the sixties. There's still terrible traffic on the freeways. The city is still physically beautiful.

NASDAQ,
Nasdaq, originally an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations, is a stock market run by the National Association of Securities Dealers. When it began trading on February 8, 1971, it was the world's first electronic stock market.

Since 1999, it is the largest American stock exchange with over half the companies traded in the United States listed.

Nasdaq is made up of the Nasdaq National Market and the Nasdaq SmallCap Market. The main exchange is located in the United States of America with exchanges in Canada and Japan. They also have associations with exchanges in Hong Kong and Europe.

Nasdaq allows multiple market participants to trade through its electronic communications networks (ECNs) structure, increasing competition.

The Small Order Execution System (SOES) is another Nasdaq feature, introduced in 1984, to ensure that in 'turbulent' market conditions small market orders are not forgotten but are automatically processed.

On July 17, 1995 the NASDAQ stock index closed above the 1,000 mark for the first time.

In the largest civil settlement in United States history, a federal judge on November 9, 1998 approved a US$1.03 billion settlement requiring dozens of brokerage houses (including Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, and Salomon Smith Barney) to pay investors who claimed they were cheated in a wide-spread price-fixing scheme on the Nasdaq.