I need help answering this question about bill gates?
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Go back to the beginning. Gates started a company developing the basic language for apple IIe's. When IBM got involved in the PC business, in 1980, they cam to gates for the basic language, they also needed an operating system, there was no standard operating systems for PC's yet.  Gates sent the suits up the road to Digital Research for an operating system, the guy at Digital Research couldn't be bothered with the suits, they went back to Gates asked him to get an operating system for them. Gates agreed, then found someone that had developed a homegrown operating system called the DIRTY OPERATING SYSTEM. Bought it for 5000.00USD, adopted it for the IBM PC. The IBM PC legitimized the PC industry, DOS became the defacto standard for the industry, Gates licensed the operating system. The rest is history. \nIt is a story of good business skills and a great deal of luck.\nLater, while the rest of the industry was fighting over who had the best machine, Gates focused on the software, the machine was totally irrelevant.  IBM partnered with Gates on OS/2, Gates was developing Windows at the same time. Gates walked away from the OS/2 deal, promoted windows, a huge gamble, which was still based on DOS. The gamble paid off. Has followed a policy since of buying the best of breed of his competitors and adopting the best technologies, an emphasis of targeting the products to the end users, not dot prompts. \nAgain, a story of luck and brilliance.
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I think that person is Bill Gates
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Hm... the person is Bill Gates.
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You can be Bill Gets if you want to. But the position for Bill GATES is already filled. By him. :D
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William Gates III \n\nFor the  whole list:\nhttp://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/Rank_1.html
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1. William H. Gates III\n\nAge: 43\nNationality: American\nMartial Status: Married\nChildren: 2\nEducation: Harvard dropout\nWorth: $90 Billion\n\nWe should all just face the fact that Bill Gates will one day rule the world. By the time Windows 2015 comes out, all will fear Bill's wrath. But you gotta admit that it doesn't look like it went to his head; the richest human on Earth, and he has the dorkiest haircut money could buy.\n\nThe son of a lawyer father and teacher mother, Gates dropped out of preschool to devote all of his time to inventing Microsoft with chum Paul Allen, then just 3 years old. After drooling all over the HVAC tubes, Bill decided to go back to school for a few more years, eventually dropping out of Harvard University to work on Microsoft.\n\nThe rest, as they all too frequently say, is history. Microsoft became this huge international corporate behemoth, and is currently fighting off anti-trust investigations and accusations that it holds a monopoly. When Bill rules the world, he's going to come down and fire those federal court judges with extreme prejudice. They'll never work on his planet again!\n\nGates relinquished his role as President of Microsoft in 1998, and as CEO on January 13, 2000; both posts are now held by Steve Ballmer. However, Bill remains Chairman and "chief software architect" of the company, as well as its largest shareholder. So they still let him come to board meetings.\n\nMr. Bill once gave $17 Billion to charity, which makes Ted Turner's paltry offering of $1 billion to the UN look like chump change. He's also written a couple of books and is heavily invested in biotechnology and cellular and satellite technology. Investors, call your brokers.\n\nSo to get onto our list of the Seven Habits of Highly Effective Billionaires, you must: join Microsoft (preferably early on), be an oil baron, drop out of college, get married, have 3.1 kids, inherit lots of money, and bleed your people dry.
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Bill Gates, the early years.
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Bill Gates is not selfish. He is very rich but not selfish at all. BE OPTIMISTIC!
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The weathiest man on this planet is Bill Gates.
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Ask Bill Gates (He'll really f*** it up)
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bill gates\nowner of microsoft
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Bill gates invented computers!
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bill gates and his wife help alot of people
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BANGALORE, India - When Microsoft Corp. chairman    Bill Gates begins a four-day visit to India on Tuesday (12-06-2005), he'll see a country moving increasingly toward open source operating systems — the chief rival to his company's Windows software. \n\nADVERTISEMENT\n \nThe head of Microsoft's India division, Ravi Venkatesan, said Gates plans to focus "on realizing India's potential" during his visit.\n\nMicrosoft has long viewed India, a country of 1 billion people with a fast growing economy, as a potentially huge market, and this will be Gates' fourth visit. He'll meet with senior Indian officials, business leaders and programmers and detail Microsoft's long-announced plans to invest $400 million in India in the coming years.\n\nGates is an icon to legions of programmers in India, and Indian leaders and business moguls line up to shake hands with him when he visits.
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Books By Bill Gates\n\nThe Road Ahead, published in 1995\n\n\nBusiness @ the Speed of Thought\nBusiness @ the Speed of Thought was written to inspire you to demand - and get - more from technology, enabling you and your company to respond faster to your customers, adapt to changing business demands, and prosper in the digital economy.\n\nBusiness @ the Speed of Thought is not a technical book. It shows how business and technology are now inextricably linked. Each chapter is structured around a business or management issue, showing how digital processes can dramatically improve your results\n\nIn 1999, Gates wrote Business @ the Speed of Thought, a book that shows how computer technology can solve business problems in fundamentally new ways. The book was published in 25 languages and is available in more than 60 countries. Business @ the Speed of Thought has received wide critical acclaim, and was listed on the best-seller lists of the New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal and Amazon.com. Gates' previous book, The Road Ahead, published in 1995, held the No. 1 spot on the New York Times' bestseller list for seven weeks.
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Bill Gates is worth over 50 Billion.  I think there was a time when Ingvar Kamprad from Sweeden may have been worth more back when America's economy tanked after 911, but Gates is worth more now.
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guess who billy boy of course (bill gates)