William Henry Gates III
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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Microsoft Corporatio
William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft
Corporation, the leading provider, worldwide, of software for the personal
computer. Microsoft had revenues of $8.6 billion for the fiscal year ending June
1996, an ....
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.... developed the programming language BASIC for
the first microcomputer -- the MITS Altair.
In his junior year, Gates dropped out of Harvard to devote his energies to
Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975 with Paul Allen. Guided by a belief
that the personal computer would be a valuable tool on every office desktop and
in every home, they began developing software for personal computers.
Gates' foresight and vision regarding personal computing have been central to
the success of Microsof ....
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