billgates

比尔盖茨的中英文简介

中文姓名：威廉·亨利·盖茨三世爵士(威廉·亨利·盖茨三世，小威廉·亨利·盖茨，威廉·盖茨第三，比尔·盖茨） 出生日期：1955年10月28日 出生地：美国华盛顿州西雅图星座： 天蝎座 身高：180cm 体重：80kg 绰号：“电脑神童” “左撇子” 爱好：乒乓球、围棋崇拜的人：拿破仑 沃伦·巴菲特 格言：“我是王”“我能赢” 理想：把世界引向未来时速之路社交：不愿主动与人接触，但在压抑状态下极易高谈阔论信仰：虔诚的天主教徒 情绪：突发性的惊慌愤怒 观念：二十一世纪，电脑和因特网会使各地财富和权利分配更加平均管理：“螺旋桨头脑”和“达尔文式管理”是运作微软最有效的手段。数椐神经系统是未来管理的必然模式。 英文介绍：Chinese Name: Sir William Henry Gates III (William Henry Gates III, the small William Henry Gates, William H. Gates III, Bill Gates) Date of Birth: October 28, 1955 Place of Birth: Seattle, Washington, United States Constellation: Scorpio Height: 180cm Weight: 80kg Nickname: "the computer whiz kid," "left-handed" Hobbies: table tennis, Go Those who worship: Napoleon Warren Buffett Motto: "I am a King" "I win" Ideal: the future of the world towards the road speed Social networking: do not want to take the initiative to come into contact with people, but in a state vulnerable to suppress talk Faith: a devout Catholic Emotions: anger of unexpected panic Concepts: the twenty-first century, computers and the Internet make the distribution of wealth and power around more evenly. Management: "propeller-headed" and "Darwin-style management" is the operation of themost effective means of Microsoft. Show the number of the nervous system is theinevitable future management model. 扩展资料：成就介绍1995年7月17日，盖茨荣登《福布斯》全球亿万富翁排行榜榜首，个人财富为129亿美元，盖茨时年39岁。微软当年销售收入为59亿美元，员工量为17801人。1996年6月，盖茨第二次成为《连线》杂志封面人物。画面是盖茨裹着浴袍，只是该画面已被Photoshop软件处理过。比尔·盖茨1996年12月，微软股价创下新高，同比上涨88%。从账面收入看，盖茨当年每天收入高达3000万美元。2015年10月23日，根据《福布斯》杂志发布的实时富豪榜，微软创始人比尔·盖茨，以财富794亿美元重回全球富豪榜首位。 2016年2月24日，胡润研究院发布《2016胡润全球富豪榜》，比尔·盖茨财富5200亿元蝉联世界首富。2017年7月17日，《福布斯》最新财富榜出炉，比尔·盖茨以900亿美元的身价蝉联第一，同时这也是比尔盖茨在《福布斯》全球富豪榜上的第18次夺魁。 1999年，盖茨和他的妻子将威廉·H·盖茨基金会更名为比尔和梅琳达·盖茨基金会，并表示该基金会的宗旨是比尔·盖茨减少全球存在的不平等现象。2000年11月，盖茨第三次成为《连线》杂志封面人物。在这期杂志中，《连线》披露了微软反垄断官司背后诸多鲜为人知的故事。参考资料：百度百科-比尔盖茨

比尔盖茨的资料，最好是一遍中文，一遍英文

1955年10月28日，比尔·盖茨出生于美国西海岸华盛顿州的西雅图的一个家庭，父亲威廉·亨利·盖茨（William Henry Gates, Sr.）是当地的著名律师，他过世的母亲玛丽·盖茨(Mary Maxwell Gates）是银行系统董事，他的外乔父J. W. 麦克斯韦尔(J. W. Maxwell)曾任国家银行行长[7]。比尔和两个姊妹一块长大，曾就读于西雅图的公立小学和私立的湖滨中学（Lakeside School），在湖滨中学盖茨认识了比他高两个年级的保罗·艾伦[8]，比尔·盖茨是一名出色的学生，在他13岁时候就开始了计算机程序设计[9]，而且以个人自由和维护自己的知识产权而闻名。在1973年，盖茨进入哈佛大学成为了一名新生。他在现在的微软首席执行官史蒂夫·鲍尔默（Steve Ballmer）家的大厅住了下来。在哈佛期间，盖茨开发了一个编程语言版本，并设计了为第一台微型计算机 - MITS牛郎星。在大三那年，盖茨离开了哈佛，他将全部精力投入到了微软。他于1975年与童年好友保罗·艾伦一起创立了微软公司。盖茨认为计算机将会是一个宝贵的工具，它们将出现在每个办公室、每一个家庭的桌面上，在这样的一种理念指导下。他们开始为个人计算机开发软件。盖茨的本人对于计算机领域的先见之明是微软及其软件产业成功的关键。在盖茨的领导下，微软不断追求发展和完善计算机软件的技术，使之更容易操作，更具成本效益和令使用计算机的人更感方便。

about Bill Gates 英文介绍

Bill Gates (1955–)
Cofounder and chairman, Microsoft Corporation

Born: October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington.

Education: Attended Harvard University, 1973–1975.

Family: Son of William Henry Gates II (attorney) and Mary Maxwell (teacher); married Melinda French (Microsoft manager), January 1, 1994; children: three.

Career: Lakeside Programming Group, 1968–1969, founder; Traf-O-Data, 1970–1973, founder; Microsoft Corporation, 1975–, founder and chairman; 1975–2000, CEO; 1992–1998, president.

Awards: U.S. National Medal of Technology, 1993; Chief Executive of the Year, Chief Executive, 1994; President's Medal of Leadership Award, New York Institute of Technology, 1995; Louis Braille Gold Medal, Canadian National Institute for the Blind, 2002; Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 2004.

Publications: The Road Ahead (with Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson), 1995; Business @ the Speed of Thought, 1999.

Address: Microsoft Corporation, 1 Microsoft Way, Building 8, North O, Redmond, Washington 98052-6399; http://www.microsoft.com.

William Henry Gates III cofounded the Microsoft Corporation in 1975, built his software company into the one of the most successful businesses in the world, and established himself in the process as the world's richest man. Although Bill Gates started Microsoft as a small business based on a single innovative software program that he had helped to develop, his real genius was his business acumen. As the long-time CEO of Microsoft, Gates was able to borrow and integrate other computer programmers' innovations and sell them to a new and rapidly expanding home computer market. In 1985, 10 years after Microsoft was founded, it had $140 million in revenue, which grew to $28 billion by 2002. One of the pioneers of home computing, Gates proved himself to be a technological visionary and software applications guru. According to industry analysts, he also demonstrated that he was a shrewd marketing strategist as well as an aggressive corporate leader.

A Precocious Pioneer

Gates grew up in a prosperous area of Seattle, Washington, with his parents and two sisters. The son of a lawyer and a schoolteacher, Gates attended a public grade school and then the Lakeside School, a private college preparatory institution. It was at Lakeside that he first became interested in the relatively new field of computer programming, met his friend and future business partner Paul Allen, and developed his first computer software program at the age of 13.

In 1968 the Lakeside School was still purchasing computer time on a machine owned by General Electric, as computers were extremely expensive in the late 1960s. Gates and his friends from Lakeside became fascinated with the machines and formed the Lakeside Programmers Group to try to make money in the computer field. The Programmers Group primarily earned its founders free computing time on machines owned by a company in Seattle. Gates and Allen then formed a company that they called Traf-O-Data. They put together a small computer for measuring traffic flow and made about $20,000. The company remained in business until Gates and Allen graduated from high school. Although Gates was interested in computers, he enrolled at Harvard University with the intention of becoming a lawyer like his father. By the time he was a sophomore in 1975, however, Gates was more interested in computers and electronics than in his pre-law studies.

What became the Microsoft Corporation grew out of two college undergraduates' bluff and bravado. Gates's old friend Allen showed him an advertisement for a kit to build a home computer. The two called the computer's manufacturer, MITS, saying that Gates had taken a primary computer language called BASIC and adapted it for the machine. When MITS expressed interest, Gates and Allen ignored their studies and spent the next four weeks frantically working on turning their boast into reality. In an interview in Money, Gates later recalled, "One little mistake would have meant the program wouldn't have run. The first time we tried it was at MITS, and it came home without a glitch" (July 1986).

Having written the first computer language for a personal computer, Gates and Allen established the Microsoft Corporation in 1975. The name "Microsoft" was formed from the words "microcomputer" and "software." Gates then dropped out of Harvard in 1976 and focused on building the new business. He believed that there was a market for computer software and that the market was going to expand rapidly as affordable computers were developed for home use.

Right Place—right Time

Although Gates rightfully earned credit for building one of the fastest-growing and most profitable companies ever established, Microsoft started out on a shaky foundation. Gates and Allen had sold their first commercially developed software for $3,000 and royalties. Before long, however, Microsoft found itself unable to cover its overhead. Even though Gates and Allen received royalties, their software was also pirated by computer hackers. This piracy led Gates to write an "Open Letter to Hobbyists," which said that computer software should not be copied by the then relatively small computer community without the developer's permission. Gates also recognized at this point in time that the future of computer software lay in owning a standard software package to be used on most computers.

By the late 1970s the computing giant IBM had plans for marketing a personal computer for home use. They approached Microsoft to develop the standard operating system for their home computer models. Gates and Allen then went out and purchased for $50,000 an operating system called Q-Dos, which had been developed by Seattle Computer. Q-Dos was compatible with the Intel processor that IBM intended to use. The two then adapted the Q-Dos system and presented it to IBM. Money magazine quoted Gates as recalling, "We bet all our resources on that system" (July 1986).

Gates had learned well his early lessons in the software business. He insisted that IBM make Microsoft the exclusive software licensee for their home computers, meaning that all IBM products would have Microsoft operating systems. Furthermore, Gates negotiated a contract that allowed Microsoft to retain the right to manufacture and license the software, which he and Allen had named MS-DOS, to other manufacturers. Because there were three other operating systems for microprocessors at that time, Gates didn't own the sole industry standard. But he was well on his way. He and Allen made MS-DOS the most attractive system to computer manufacturers because Microsoft offered a flat-fee license rather than a per-unit contract. Gates and Allen also encouraged software developers to create programs that would broaden their system's capabilities. Their strategy was a huge success because manufacturers initially saved money. In addition, the software developers had an easier job designing such single applications as word processing for use on computers made by other manufacturers.

These negotiations demonstrated that Gates was willing to defer immediate earnings for much greater future profits. His plan was based on building a mass of users for Microsoft products, which would mean the company would own the industry standard. Once Gates's company owned the standard, it could then revert to selling its software at per-unit prices rather than general licenses.

While the contract with IBM placed Microsoft on its way to legendary business growth, it also established a precedent for what some considered Gates's unsavory business practices. When he and Allen had approached Seattle Computer, the software's original developer, they omitted to mention that they were in negotiations with IBM to develop their operating system. Seattle Computer later sued Microsoft on the grounds that it had hidden its relationship with IBM in order to purchase Seattle's system at what turned out to be a bargain-basement price. The two companies came to an out-of-court settlement without Gates or Microsoft admitting to any guilt or duplicity in the original purchase.

Marketing Trumps Challengers

Paul Allen, who had been serving as Microsoft's head of research and new product development, left the company in 1982 after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. The following year, Gates faced a major challenge to Microsoft's domination of operating systems for home computers when a company called VisiCorp developed a mouse-driven computer system with a user interface based on graphics rather than the keyboard-based and text-driven system of MS-DOS. Gates quickly recognized that VisiCorp's system would be the wave of the future because it was much easier for technologically unsophisticated people to use. Even though Microsoft did not have such a system in the works at that point, Gates started an advertising campaign with an announcement at the Plaza Hotel in New York City that a new Microsoft operating system with graphical user interface (GUI) would soon be marketed. This next-generation system was to be called "Windows."

Gates's announcement was a bluff; the truth was that Microsoft was nowhere near developing such a system. But the marketing ploy worked because people preferred to wait for a system designed to be compatible with their existing Microsoft products rather than undergo the trouble and expense of installing an entirely new operating system. Furthermore, Windows allowed users to avoid buying new software applications to replace the DOS-compatible programs they currently owned. Windows 1.0 was finally released in 1985. That same year Microsoft reported $140 million in revenue, including $46.6 million from overseas users.

Microsoft's growth continued to be relatively smooth in spite of several challenges, in part because the fiscally conservative Gates had financed most of the company's expansion entirely from its earnings. This cautious approach to financing, however, did not reflect an unwillingness to take risks. In January 1986 Gates launched an ambitious long-term project to develop a new data storage system based on a compact disk, or CD-ROM, that could hold any type of computer file, including music and visual files. In March of that same year, he took the company public. His 40 percent ownership of Microsoft shares made his net worth $390 million by June 1986.

Gates had effectively cornered the market for operating software for the vast majority of personal computers (PCs) as well as developing a wide range of other popular programs. He effectively became a billionaire in March 1987, when his company's stock rose to $90.75 per share, up from $21.50 per share when the company went public. Brian O'Reilly commented a few months later in Fortune, "[Gates] apparently has made more money than anyone else his age, ever, in any business" (October 12, 1987).

Gates Switches Gears

Industry analysts had praised Gates for guiding his company on a path of growth that saw its revenue stream increasing by more than 50 percent per year in a extremely competitive, even cutthroat, market. They credited much of this success to Gates's ability to capitalize early and effectively on industry trends and his willingness to take risks on such fledgling technologies as Microsoft's CD-ROM-based software packages, which became industry standards. Furthermore, Gates had organized the company's structure so that it worked concurrently on all phases of a software product's business cycle from development to distribution. Larry Michels, an early software developer, told Mary Jo Foley of Electronic Business, "Other software vendors have modeled themselves after the hardware business. Microsoft created its own model of how to do business" (August 15, 1988).

Although Gates had established himself as a visionary, he did not always hit the mark. For years he had paid little attention to the business potential of the Internet, which led him to say later that he regretted not having focused more closely on Microsoft's capabilities for e-mail and networking. In 1995, however, he did an about-face and began to redirect the company's efforts in this area. His success was measured by the fact that Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser had become the industry leader by 2000. Gates's success in developing a competitive Internet browser, as well as coming out on top of the desktop-database and office-suite wars of the 1990s, proved that he had formed a company nimble enough to jump into a market that others were developing and take the lead away from the competition.

In 1998 Gates announced a new phase in Microsoft's expansion that would allow him to concentrate his energies on strategy and product development. At the same time the company funneled larger amounts of money into improving customer support and feedback. Gates planned to direct the company's work in such areas as intelligent telephones and television, as well as the integration of such new computer input techniques as speech, vision, and handwriting. Although Windows had already gone through several upgrades, Gates wanted to continue improving its ease of use and reliability. To free himself up for this work, he stepped down as president, a position he had held since 1992, but remained Microsoft's chairman and CEO.

Showdown With the Government

Microsoft earned $19.75 billion in revenue during the fiscal year 1999. Bill Gates had become an icon not only in the computer and business worlds but also in the eyes of the general public. His ghostwritten book The Road Ahead, which outlined his vision of the future, topped many best-seller lists for more than three months. In spite of Gates's financial and literary success, however, he found himself facing his biggest challenge yet as the 1990s came to an end.

The challenge came this time from the United States government rather than from Microsoft's competitors. Gates and Microsoft had come under increasing scrutiny for unfair business practices from the time of the court case that followed Microsoft's purchase of the Q-Dos operating system from Seattle Computer in 1980. In 1993 the U.S. Justice Department began an investigation into Microsoft's contracts with other computer manufacturers that led to an agreement from Gates in 1994 to eliminate some of Microsoft's restrictions on the use of its products by other software makers. In 1997, however, the Justice Department sued Microsoft for forcing computer makers to sell its Internet browser as a condition of using the Windows system—a de facto violation of the 1994 consent decree. In December 1997 a U.S. district judge issued a preliminary injunction forcing Microsoft to temporarily stop requiring manufactures who sold Windows 95 "or any successor [program]" to install its Internet Explorer.

Microsoft appealed the injunction, but the following year the Justice Department and 20 state attorneys general sued Microsoft, charging that it illegally thwarted competition to protect and extend its software monopoly. Although Microsoft won its initial appeal in 1998 to reverse the 1997 decision, Gates soon found himself being questioned for 30 hours over a three-day period in a videotaped deposition for the upcoming antitrust trial. The government finally rested its case on January 13, 1999, and the Microsoft defense team ended its case on February 26. The final oral arguments from each side were presented on September 21, 1999.

After the judge presented his findings of fact on the case on November 5, Gates issued a response disagreeing with many of the findings that went against Microsoft. In a statement released to the press as reported by Court TV Online, Gates noted, "Microsoft competes vigorously and fairly. Microsoft is committed to resolving this case in a fair and a factual manner, while ensuring that the principles of consumer benefits and innovation are protected" (November 6, 1999).

U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled in June 2000 that Microsoft was a monopoly which had illegally exploited the dominance of Windows, at that point installed on over 95 percent of the world's personal computers. Judge Jackson then ordered Microsoft to be broken up into several smaller companies. It was the most severe antitrust ruling since the breakup of AT&T in 1984. Jackson's decision was reversed on appeal, however, and the company received a far less severe punishment directed toward restricting some of its business practices. In spite of this relatively favorable outcome, however, Gates continued to battle competitors in American courtrooms over Microsoft's business practices. In addition, he found himself subjected to litigation in Europe, where Microsoft was once again accused of exploiting its monopoly of Windows to control other computer-related industries, including media-player and server software companies.

Despite the controversy over whether Gates had created a company that used its dominance of the desktop computer system to obtain unfair control of newer computer-related markets, Microsoft continued to prosper. Gates stepped down as CEO in 2000 but kept his position as chairman of Microsoft as well as its chief software architect. In 2004 he doubled the company's research and development budget to $6.8 billion and began pushing a new Windows personal computer operating system code-named Longhorn.

Management Style: Workaholic

Although Gates was long known as a "boy wonder" in the computer and business worlds, his management style was anything but immature. As was noted in a BBC News article, "Gates has come to be known for his aggressive business tactics and confrontational style of management" (January 26, 2004). Although he was considered a charismatic leader within his own company, he was also extremely tough—he fired Microsoft's first company president after only 11 months on the job.

An intense businessman who typically put in 16-hour days and took only two three-day vacations in the first five years after establishing the corporation, Gates was demanding and strong-willed about implementing his vision. Coworkers, clients, and industry analysts also remarked, however, that he did not surround himself with yes-sayers but was more than willing to change his mind if someone convinced him of a better alternative. Analysts also observed that one of the keys to Gates's success was his ability to focus on the fundamentals of the business while keeping office politics or his own ego from getting in the way. "Most of what I do is leading," Gates once said in Electronic Business. "Managing applies to the people who work directly for me" (August 15, 1988).

Gates was known from the beginning of his career as the epitome of a hard-driving businessman respected by his allies and feared by his competitors. It was his vision that guided Microsoft's immense success. In addition, Gates had an uncanny ability to tackle both the managerial and technical sides of Microsoft's operations. He was especially noted for his success as a marketing strategist who priced his products for the mass market rather than computer specialists. In 1999 the Journal of Business Strategy listed Gates among a handful of people who had the greatest influence on business strategy over the last century.

Gates also had his fair share of critics. In addition to accusations of predatory and possibly illegal business practices, some analysts remarked that Gates did not really foster in-house product innovation but tended to focus his attention instead on blocking advances by other companies.

根据下面的内容写一篇介绍bill gates的英语文章

Bill Gates

Bill Gates is a famous people in the world. He is the richest man in the world. He has been the richest man for more than ten years. That's a great number.

Bill Gates was born on 28th October, 1955. He was born in Seattle. When he was young, he was very clever and like science and math very much, and wanted to be a scientist. He lived there with his two sisters, his father and his mother who was dead. His father was a lawyer in Seattle. His dead mother, Mary Gates is a teacher in a middle school. When he was small, he studied in a middle school named Hubin Middle School, at there he found that he loved computer very much. At 1973, he could study in a great university in the USA. He made friend with Paul Allen, and they were the founder of the Microsoft. They made this company at 1975, and Bill Gates won’t study in the university from that time. Bill Gates made the computer became more and more light, small and useful.

At 1994, Bill Gates was married was a woman. And give birth to three children. Bill Gates loves these three children very much. But he thought than he won’t give his money to them because he wanted them to live by themselves. Bill Gates will give his money to the poor people.

At 1999, Bill Gates wrote a book named Business@the Speed of Thought ,that was very famous at that time. This book told us how the computer can let our life to be better and better. Sixty countries sole this book and changed this book into twenty-five languages. And many bookstores bought this book and sole it out.

Bill Gates likes reading books and play golf very much.

This is Bill Gates.

比尔盖茨是谁

　　比 尔 盖 茨
　　盖茨简介
　　姓 名 Bill Gates

　　中 文 译 名 比尔盖茨（港）、比尔盖兹（台）
　　喜欢的歌星 John Lennon 最崇拜 拿破仑
　　出生年月日 1955年10月28日

　　结婚日期 1994年1月1日


　　星 座
　　天蝎座——黄道第八个星座，蝎子是极具攻击性的危险生物，尤其受到威胁时，会给予敌人痛苦的一针，但平时不易现身。这星座之人，感情强烈，充满力量和神秘感。

　　职 业 微软公司创办人之一，微软公司董事长及最高执行主管（CEO）。
　　资 产
　　1986年 进入Fortune亿万富豪榜，约3亿1千5百万美元。
　　1991年 仅次于华尔街大亨巴菲特（Warren Buffett）为全美第二富豪。
　　1992年 约70亿美元。
　　1995年至1998年公认世界首富。
　　1995年 约200亿美元。
　　1997年 约364亿美元。
　　1998年 约461亿美元。
　　名 言 我要赢！
　　爱 好 除电脑之外，酷爱艺术品收藏。
　　口 头 语 掌握资讯在手。
　　念过的学校
　　公立小学，十一岁时入读北西雅图湖滨中学，十八岁（1973年）入读哈佛大学，成为哈佛大学一年级生。
　　年轻时的 Bill Gates
　　Bill Gates1975年、1977年、1989年曾有三次因超速、闯红灯、酗酒及无牌驾驶被捕记录。美国一家杂志表示，Bill Gates的被捕照片是从新墨西哥州的警察部门取得的，在警方同时亦将照片副本送给Bill Gates，他得知消息后，立即在电视节目中讲述了此事，实行在照片未刊登前先发制人，减低了照片的负面影响。
　　爱 情 路 1983年Bill Gates结交了一位在Prime Computer任职的Jill Bennett，这位金发女郎曾劝Bill Gates何不开发32-bits电脑软件？从此，她的花名就是32-bits（不是32B）。由于Bill Gates太“迷恋”微软，以至分手，后来才以美国商业奇才Winbiad为第二任女友。
　　与妻子Melinda相识及求婚过程
　　Bill Gates与妻子Mel inda是在纽约哈曼顿微软公司的记者会上相识， 当时Melinda正在微软工作。1993年时Bill Gates决定向Melinda求婚，而求婚过程也相当浪漫。他与Melinda一同乘专机往奥马哈市降落，因为Bill Gates一早约定珠宝商在店内等候，让他和未婚妻在无人骚扰下挑选心水婚戒，他俩其后在夏威夷共谐连理。
　　喜爱的食物 汉堡包与可乐，后受第二任女友Winbiad影响，也有吃素。
　　俭朴程度 Bill Gates很俭朴，据闻出行一向只坐经济客位，后来发达了，也照买最平的机票，反而是航空公司看不过眼，见到Bill Gates，自动将之升格到头等舱，他看到心里，更加不买贵的机票。虽然，近年已改搭商务客位，然而 ， Bill Gates仍住不惯总统套房呢！
　　其他资料 在西雅图湖滨中学，他就开始了未来的事业：个人电脑软件与设计电脑程序，那年他才13岁。他爱读书，并且喜爱高尔夫球运动和打桥牌。在哈佛大学读到二年级时辍学，出来创立微软公司。
　　电子信箱 askbill@microsoft.com

　　永远的微软，永远的比尔·盖茨

　　一提起微软，大家就会想起比尔·盖茨——微软的创始人、微软的精神象征；而一谈起比尔·盖茨——这位富可敌国的世界首富，人们就不能不想起软件巨人微软公司。盖茨和微软的关系，就如同上帝和天堂、阎王爷和地狱一样密不可分。
　　尽管现在盖茨被官司搅闹的焦头烂额，尽管要被分解的坏消息使微软的股票受到了灾难般的重挫，尽管这半年来英特尔、思科曾经超越了微软的市值，尽管Oracle的拉里·埃里森也曾一度取代盖茨世界首富的位置，但在《福布斯》最新富翁排名中，盖茨仍然稳稳地坐住了第一名的交椅，微软仍然是高科技战场中的领头羊。
　　遥想当年：盖茨白手起家，创立微软公司，31岁时成为有史以来最年轻的亿万富翁（后来这个记录被打破），37岁时成为美国首富并获得国家科技奖章，39岁时身价一举超越华尔街股市大亨沃伦·巴菲特而成为世界首富，同年，以一票之差击败通用电器的杰克·韦尔奇，被《工业周刊》评选为"最受尊敬的CEO"；微软公司上市之后，市值也节节摸高，超越波音、IBM，接着又超过三大汽车公司市值总和，直至突破5000亿大关超越通用电器（GE），成为全球市场价值最高的公司，年营业额超过世界前五十名软件企业中其他49家的总和，即使在去年年底被司法部和19州围追堵截的景况下，仍被评为"最受尊崇的公司"……
　　这一切，都是永远不可磨灭的辉煌。
　　盖茨和微软，创造了20世纪最美丽的神话，吹响了信息经济时代最嘹亮的号角，尽管在这个过程中充满了掠夺和不平等的残酷竞争。盖茨是魔鬼，还是天使，微软是新科技的缔造者，还是商业规则的破坏者，现在还没有谁能下一个公正的结论，但有一点是毋庸质疑的：盖茨不是靠幸运取得成功的，微软也不是建立在偶然基础上的软件帝国，盖茨是电脑天才，但更是一个经营和管理天才，他在微软的成长壮大中付出的心血和汗水，他非凡的事业心和进取心，他高瞻远瞩的眼光和异常敏锐的市场嗅觉，是任何一个人都无法超越的。盖茨和微软，都将是永远的……

　　痴迷电脑的天才少年
　　盖茨是为电脑而生的，而他也把电脑带入到了一个美丽的新世界……
　　盖茨进入湖滨中学之后迷上了电脑，从此就无心上其他课，每天都泡在计算中心。从8年级开始，他就和同学一起帮人设计简单的电脑程序，以此赚取零用钱。盖茨的好朋友保罗·艾伦（后来和盖茨一起创立了微软公司）回忆说，"我们当时经常一直干到三更半夜，我们爱死了电脑软件的工作，那时侯我们玩的真开心。"
　　盖茨说，"那时侯，保罗常常把我从垃圾桶上拉起来，而我却继续趴在那里不肯起来，因为在那里我找到一些上面还沾着咖啡渣的程序设计师的笔记或字条，然后我们一起对着这些宝贵的资料研究操作系统。"

　　盖茨上9年级的时候，TRW公司的工程师在架设西北输电网络时遇到了问题，一筹莫展。这时候，他们发现了湖滨中学计算中心的一份《问题报告书》，当场打电话给制作这份报告的两位"侦测错误大师"（盖茨和艾伦），希望他们两人能来帮助排除问题。但他们压根没有想到，这两位大师居然只是9年级和10年级的学生！
　　创业的艰辛
　　1973年夏天，盖茨以全国资优学生的身份，进入了哈佛大学。在那里，他仍然无法抵抗电脑的诱惑，于是就经常逃课，一连几天呆在电脑实验室里整晚整晚地写程序、打游戏。
　　1975的冬天，盖茨和保罗从MITS的Altair机器得到了灵感的启示，看到了商机和未来电脑的发展方向，于是他们就给MITS创办人罗伯茨打电话，说可以为Altair提供一套BASIC编译器。罗伯茨当时说："我每天都收到很多来信和电话，我告诉他们，不论是谁，先写完程序的可以得到这份工作。"
　　于是盖茨和保罗回到哈佛，从一月到三月，整整8个星期，他们一直呆在盖茨的寝室里，没日没夜地编写、调试程序，他们几乎都不记得寝室的灯几时关过，最后，他们终于成功了，两个月通宵达旦的心血和智慧产生了世界上第一个BASIC编译器，MITS对此也非常满意。
　　三个月之后，盖茨敏感地意识到，计算机的发展太快了，等大学毕业之后，他可能就失去了一个千载难逢的好机会，所以，他毅然决然地退学了。然后，和保罗创立了微软公司。
　　公司刚起步的时候，冲劲十足、精力充沛的的盖茨和保罗根本就不知道什么是疲倦和劳累，他们在一间灰尘弥漫的汽车旅馆中租用了一间办公室，开始了艰苦的创业旅程。他们挤在那个杂乱无章、噪音纷扰的小空间中，没日没夜地写程序，饿了就吃个比萨饼充饥，实在累的受不了了就出去看场电影或开车兜兜风解困……

　　正当他们不知疲倦朝着梦想的电脑王国挺进的时候，微软卷入了一场灾难性的官司中……
　　当时软件盗版情况特别严重，大大损害了盖茨的利益，盖茨认为罗伯茨对市场上BASIC编译器的盗版应该负责，于是将它收回卖给了Perterc公司，但这之前他曾经和罗伯茨签署过该软件的协议，允许MITS在十年内使用和转让BASIC程序和源代码。
　　很快，MITS就将微软送了法庭的被告席，高昂的律师费令盖茨不知所措，与此同时，Perterc也拒绝支付微软版权费，法院仲裁过程慢如蜗牛，收入的减少和庞大的开支把微软送到了濒临破产的境地，盖茨和保罗几乎都捱不过去了。盖茨对那段经历至今历历在目，"他们企图把我们饿死，我们甚至付不出律师费，所以当他们有意与我们和解时，我们几乎就范。事情到了那么糟糕的地步，仲裁者用了9个月才发布那该死的裁决……"
　　不过，他们终于熬过来了，微软赢了这场官司。
　　其实，盖茨当时完全可以向父母借钱，相信他的父母也会帮他度过难关的，但他没有，盖茨坚持微软必须自力更生。盖茨就是这样自己白手起家、艰难地、一步一步打下天下的。
　　盖茨一直是一个以工作狂而著称的人物，即使到了39岁结婚的时候，他还经常加班工作到晚上10点以后，对于以前任何一个亿万富翁来说，这都是没有的事。尽管微软公司一向以员工习惯性加班拼命工作而闻名，但那些工作的眼冒金星的员工还是心悦诚服地说，他们之中几乎没有谁能比盖茨更辛苦。
　　为了事业，什么都可以舍弃
　　盖茨自己曾经不止一次地说过："微软是我永远的情人。"其实，在通往微软帝国辉煌的道路上，盖茨经历过无数次极端痛苦和无奈的选择，当求学、爱情、婚姻和事业发生矛盾或者冲突的时候，他都会毫不犹豫地放弃学位、心爱的女人，而选择微软和自己的事业。
　　1975年6月，盖茨经过认真的考虑，说服了自己，决定放弃了这所世界上最好大学的毕业证书，要求退学创业。接着，又说服了万分震惊的父母。这股毅然决然的勇气绝不是一般人所具有的。

　　在盖茨的心中，微软是高于一切的，为了微软，盖茨可以放弃一切

比尔盖茨的简介

姓名英文：Bill Gates
出生日期：1955年10月28日
星座： 天蝎座
绰号：“电脑神童” “左撇子”
最喜欢的歌星：JOHM LENNON
最喜欢的事物：汉堡包和可乐
崇拜的人：拿破仑 沃伦·巴菲特
格言：“我是王” “我能赢”
理想：把世界引向未来时速之路
社交：不愿主动与人接触，但在压抑状态下极易高谈阔论
情绪：突发性的惊慌愤怒
观念：二十一世纪，电脑和因特网会使各地财富和权利分配更加平均。
管理：“螺旋桨头脑”和“达尔文式管理”是运作微软最有效的手段。数椐神经系统是未来管理的必然模式。
电子邮箱:askbill@microsoft.com(如果你直接向此邮箱发邮件，盖茨本人阅读的几率几乎是0，他的秘书每天都要为他筛选邮件，非@microsoft、非工作类邮件几乎不可能到达盖茨那里）

生平

如今，如果你的办公桌上有一台个人电脑、里面几乎必定装有微软的操作系统。比尔·盖茨使个人计算机成了日常生活用品，并因而改变了每一个现代人的工作、生活乃至交往的方式。因此有人说，比尔·盖茨对软件的贡献，就像爱迪生之于灯泡。

比尔·盖茨的童年是在美国华盛顿州的西雅图度过的，西雅图是美国波音公司的的基地，全市职工近半数在这家公司工作，所以人们也把西雅图称为波音城。它和旧金山、洛杉矶并列为美国西海岸的三大门户之一。

长着一头沙色头发的7岁男孩盖茨最喜欢反复看个没完的是那套《世界图书百科全书》。他经常几个小时地连续阅读这本几乎有他体重1/3的大书，一字一句地从头到尾地看。他常常陷入沉思，冥冥之中似乎强烈地感觉到，小小的文字和巨大的书本，里面蕴藏着多么神奇和魔幻般的一个世界啊！文字的符号竟能把前人和世界各地人们的我数有趣的事情，记录下来，又传播出去。他又想，人类历史将越来越长，那么以后的百科全书不是越来越大而更重了吗！能有什么好办法造出一个魔盒那么大，就能包罗万象地把一大本百科全书都收进去，该有多方便。这个奇妙的思想火花，后来竟给他实现了，而且比香烟盒还要小，只要一块小小的芯片就行了。

盖茨看的书越来越多，想的问题也越来越多。一次他忽然对他四年级的同学卡尔·爱德蒙德说：与其做一棵草坪里的小草，还不如成为一株耸立于秃丘上的橡树。因为小草千篇一律，毫无个性，而橡树则高大挺拔，昂首苍穹。他坚持写日记，随时记下自己的想法，小小的年纪常常如大人般的深思熟虑。他很早就感悟到人的生命来之不易，要十分珍惜这不到人世的宝贵机会。他在日记里这样写道：人生是一次盛大的赴约，对于一个人来说，一生中最重要的事情莫过于信守由人类积累起来的理智所提出的至高无上的诺言……那么诺言是什么呢？就是要干一番惊天动地的大事。他在另一篇日记里又写道：也许，人的生命是一场正在焚烧的火灾，一个人所能去做的，就是竭尽全力要从这场火灾中去抢救点什么东西出来。这?追赶生命的意识，在同龄的孩子中是极少有的。

盖茨所想的诺言也好，追赶生命中要抢救的东西也好，表现在盖茨的日常行动中，就是学校的任何功课和老师布置的作业，无论是演奏乐器，还是写作文，或者体育竞赛，他都会倾其全力，花上所有的时间去最出色地完成。

老师给他所在的四年级学生布置了一篇有关人体物殊作用的作文，要求四五页的篇幅。结果盖茨利用他爸爸书房里的百科全书和其他医学、生理、心理方面的书籍，洋洋洒洒地一口气写了30多页。又有一次老师布置同学写篇不超过20页的故事，盖茨浮想联翩，竟写出长达100页的神奇而又曲折无比的故事，使老师和同学都十分惊讶！大家说他：不管盖茨做什么事，他总喜欢来个登峰造极，不鸣则已，一鸣惊人，不然他是不会甘心的。

盖茨在体育和社会活动方面也表现出这种不落人后的精神。有一次暑假童子军的80公里徒步行军，时间是一个星期，他穿了一双崭新的高筒靴，显然新鞋不大合脚，每天13公里的徒步行军，又是爬山，又是穿越森林，使他吃尽苦头，第一天晚上，他的脚后跟磨破了皮，脚趾上起了许多水泡。他咬紧牙关，坚持走下去。第二天晚上，他的脚红肿得非常厉害，开裂的皮肤还流了血。同伴们都劝他停止前进，他却摇摇头，只是向随队医生要点药棉和纱布包扎一下，又要了些止痛片服用，继续上路了。就这样他一直坚持到一个途中检查站，当领队发现他的脚发炎严重，下令医冶，才中止了这次行军。盖茨的母亲从西雅图赶来，看到他双脚溃烂的样子时，难过地哭了，直埋怨儿子为什么不早点停止行军。盖茨却淡淡地说?可惜我这次没有到达目的地。

1969年，盖茨所在的西雅图湖滨中学中美国是最早开设电脑课程的学校。当时还没有PC机，学校只搞到一台终端机，还是从社会和家长那里集了大批资金才买来的。这台终端机连接其他单位所拥有的小型电子计算机PDP--10，每天只能使用很短时间，每小时的费用也很高。盖茨像发现了新大陆一样，只要一有时间，便钻进计算机房去操作那台终端机，几乎到了废寝忘食的地步。13岁时，他便独立编出了第一个电脑程序，可以在电脑屏幕上玩月球软着陆的游戏。这一年的7月20日正好是美国宇航员阿姆斯物朗和奥尔德林乘登月舱，代表人类第一次踏上了月球表面的日子。盖茨心里想，我不能坐宇宙飞船去月球，那么让我用电脑来实现我的登月梦吧！

可是好景不长，只过了半年，湖滨中学就再也没有钱支付昂贵的PDP--10小型计算机的使用租金了。这件事使盖茨像失去了上学机会那么痛苦，因为这时候他对电脑已经入迷到神魂颠倒的地步。于是他和同学四处奔走，终于找到一个机会，就是帮助一家名为CCC的电脑公司抓臭虫，用除虫的报酬来支付他们操作电脑的费用。什么叫臭虫，这是电脑行业里人们称呼软件中的错误的代名词，即讨厌的臭虫（Bug）。因为一旦有了这种臭虫，就会使电脑导出错误结果或死机，美国发往金星的水手号火箭和法国职权利亚娜火箭，就曾因为电脑软件的故障（臭虫）而使发射失败，损失几亿美元。盖茨兴冲冲地约了同学中的几个电脑爱好者，每天晚上6点左右，CCC公司员工下班之后，他们便骑自行车来到那里上班了。那里有许多台电传打字终端机可用，有各种电脑软件可尽情研究，真是如鱼得水。盖茨对电脑软件太着迷了，几乎整晚都呆在那里，就像他在小学时就立志要搞出新名堂一样地执着，每个晚上，他都要在CCC公司的记录本上写满了他和伙伴们发现的一个电脑臭虫。通过这一段时间的抓臭虫，盖茨使自己在电脑硬件和软件方面学到了许多书本上和学校里学不到的知识和技能，为日后的研究开发，打下了精深的功底。

1970年，当盖茨15岁时，他的电脑才能已远近闻名了。一家名叫信息科学的公司找到盖茨，希望用提供使用PDP-10的电脑时间来交换盖茨和他的同学保罗的软件技术。因为按美国法律规定，不能给未成年人支付工资，所以该公司决定，以价值一万美元的电脑时间作为酬劳，要求他们为公司设计工资管理软件。这样就使他俩获得了足够使用一学年的电脑时间，他们不禁高兴万分。1971年，湖滨中学又让盖茨帮学校设计一套排课用的电脑软件。当时的排课表全靠人工，由于学生人数多，课程又复杂多样，人排课常常分配不均，造成某些课程学生过度拥挤的现象。盖茨圆满地完成了这个艰巨的任务，又使他延长了使用电脑的宝贵时间。

1973年，美国国防项目承包商TRW公司要开发一套用于管理水库的电脑监督控制系统，可是老是消灭不了各种电脑臭虫，进度缓慢，眼看要遭到违约处罚了。在这紧急关头，TRW公司得知盖茨和保罗两个小电脑天才的事情后，便向他俩求援，两个男孩高兴地答应了。这是一件很专业化又很艰难的工作，而且按规定，中学生只能拿工读生的低工资。但是盖茨并不计较，他主要目的是通过这种工作来提高和锻炼自己的软件设计能力。湖滨中学也很开明，允许高年级学生在完成规定课程后去企业实习和工作。由于盖茨和保罗的加入，终于使TRW公司按时完成了项目，免受巨额罚款。而盖茨和保罗则得到了该公司一位电脑专家的具体指导，使两人的软件技巧得到了提高。

青年盖茨在1970年代早期，盖茨写了一封著名的《致爱好者的公开信》，震惊了计算机界。盖茨宣称计算机软件将会是一个巨大的商业市场，计算机爱好者们不应该在不获得原作者同意的情况下随意复制电脑程序。当时的计算机界受到黑客文化影响，认为创意与知识应该被共享。盖茨随后离开校园，一手创办了世界上最成功的企业之一――微软公司，并逐渐将软件产业化。

1975年，年仅19岁的盖茨预言：“我们意识到软件时代到来了，并且对于芯片的长期潜能我们有足够的洞察力，这意味着什么？我现在不去抓住机会反而去完成我的哈佛学业，软件工业绝对不会原地踏步等着我。”

但是盖茨的商业手法往往召至非议，其中之一就是MS-DOS的来源。在1970年代末，IBM正在计划进入个人电脑市场，并在1981年正式推出了IBM个人电脑（PC）。IBM需要为自己的产品寻找合适的、基于英特尔x86系列处理器的操作系统。