Introduction. Childhood and family

Plan:

1. 
   Introduction.
   
2. 
   Childhood and family.
   
3. 
   University and the creation of Microsoft.
   
4. 
   Other Bill Gates Achievements.
   
5. 
   Bill leaving Microsoft.
   
6. 
   Interesting Facts.
   

Introduction.

William Gemnri Gates III, better known as Bill Gates, is an American entrepreneur and public figure, philanthropist, one of the founders (together with Paul Allen) and the former largest shareholder of Microsoft. Until June 2008, he was the head of the company, after leaving his post, he remained in the position of its non-executive chairman of the board of directors. He is also co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
In the period from 1996 to 2007, in 2009 and in 2015 - the richest man on the planet according to Forbes magazine. His fortune in March 2015, according to Forbes magazine, is estimated at $79.2 billion, an increase of $13.2 billion compared to September 2012. This made him the richest person in the United States 20 times in a row and the first in the world 16 times (the second was Carlos Slim Elu with his family, his fortune is estimated at $ 77.1 billion).
Bill Gates is one of the world's biggest philanthropists: between 1994 and 2010, he donated over $28 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In February 2010, Gates made an offer to all billionaires to donate half of their wealth for charitable activities.
Childhood.
Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955 in the city of Seattle, which is located in the state of Washington. He was born the second child in a fairly wealthy family (he has an older and younger sister). At the time, his father, William Gates, was a lawyer and his mother, Mary Gates, was a member of the board of directors at First Interstate Bank. As a child, Bill Gates was painfully shy and uncommunicative, he was not interested in the games of his peers, which naturally caused anxiety of his parents - according to rumors, they even took him to specialists. An experienced psychologist who tested the boy saw a strong character behind defenselessness and told his mother that she could not change her son. The only way out is to adapt yourself.
At age 11, Gates longed to win a trip to the Seattle Space Needle restaurant, which was the prize in a competition organized by a local pastor. To do this, it was necessary to learn the Sermon on the Mount, which included three chapters of the Gospel of Matthew. According to biographers Wallace and Erickson, Gates delivered the sermon flawlessly. Later he will say: "I can do anything to which I apply my intellect." According to Ann Stephens, a high school teacher, Gates once reproduced verbatim a three-page monologue from a play by James Farber, skimming through it once. Despite his unique abilities in mathematics and logic, Bill Gates did not show the leadership abilities characteristic of his parents. They could not even imagine that their little son would become a real “shark” of world business.
At first, Bill Gates studied at a public school, and later moved to a private and most prestigious school in Seattle. While Bill and his high school friend Paul Allen were in middle school, the school management decides to buy a certain time limit for computer classes from the General Electric Company. Bill and Allen became seriously interested in computers. Friends often skipped classes, instead of them they studied computer literature. At that time, Bill created his first program, it was a game of tic-tac-toe.The school authorities underestimated their students: the time acquired for the whole school year for studying on the computer was spent in just a few weeks.
After a while, a new student enters the school, whose father works as a chief programmer at the Computer Center. With this company, the school enters into a new contract, thanks to which Gates and his comrades continue to study on the PC.
Young hackers were able to quickly find the vulnerabilities of the machine, as well as crack its protection. So they were able to change data with information that recorded the amount of computer time spent. When the Computer Center found out about this, the guilty schoolchildren were banned from approaching the equipment for several weeks.

When the Computer Center began to have problems in business from frequent failures, as well as weak protection, its leaders remembered talented students. They were invited to their place and offered them to identify flaws and vulnerabilities in security. As payment, they were allowed to use the machines without a time limit. Bill and his comrades accepted the offer.

At 15, Bill Gates writes a program that helps regulate traffic. Her teenager sold for 20 thousand dollars.
When Bill was 17 years old, he was approached with a proposal - to write a program for the distribution of energy in the Bonneville Dam. At the end of this project, Gates received $30,000.
Gates is known as a strong family man - in 1994 he married Melinda French, who became Melinda Gates, in 1996 they had a daughter, Jennifer, in 1999, a son, Rory, in 2002, a daughter, Phoebe. Bill first met Melinda in 1987 at some Microsoft press briefing in New York. She, as it turned out, had been working for his company for a long time. Melinda left the service, marrying the "master". They now live in a luxury home near Seattle (Microsoft is also headquartered in the Seattle suburb of Redmond) that pays about a million dollars a year in property taxes.The house is crammed with various kinds of electronics. It is located on the shores of Lake Washington and has an area of ​​40,000 square feet. The cost of the house is $40 million. The “House of the Future” consists of three interconnected pavilions made of glass and pine wood. On the hill is a garage for 30 cars. In the corner of the garage is the museum's Mustang, Bill's boy's first car. The first pavilion is mainly for the entertainment of guests. The Reception Hall overlooks the Olympic Mountains across Lake Washington. A good three dozen monitors make up a flat screen that spans the entire wall of the hall. The visitor to the "home of the future" receives an electronic pin encoded with his "preferences" - movies, paintings, music, television shows. The system "learns" your tastes and remembers them during your first visit to the house.

The central pavilion is the library (for which Gates acquired a number of various cultural values, among which is the Codex Leicester collection of works by Leonardo da Vinci. Since 2003, it has been exhibited at the Seattle Museum of Art). Above the hall hangs a giant dome with wooden inlays. Next to the library is a trampoline. Gates loves to jump on it, believing that jumping on a trampoline, as well as swinging in a chair, contributes to the concentration of thought. The "House of the Future" has a swimming pool that smoothly turns into a Japanese bath. Sometimes at night, Gates comes here to relax with his wife, Melinda. There is also a trout lake nearby. When the construction of the house began, Gates settled on a severe architectural style. But, having married, he made concessions to the softer Melinda. First of all, concrete was sacrificed for her elegant taste. Architects and builders rebelled, but resigned. The hostess of the present reigned in the “house of the future”.

What programmer doesn't like to drive fast?! Gates is a jerk. First, he had a Porsche 911, which he drove through the deserts of New Mexico. Paul Allen even had to get him out of prison, where he ended up for a speed violation. Gates then bought a Porsche 930 Turbo, which he dubbed the "Rocket." Then came the Mercedes, the Jaguar Huv, the Porsche Carrera Cabriolet 964, and finally the -959, for which he paid $380,000, but which he could not bring into America: the car did not meet US environmental standards. . In her absence, Gates "satisfied" with the Ferrari 348, which he soon ruined while riding in the dunes. For all that, Gates never used seat belts. Bill Gates reads a lot and also likes to play golf and bridge.
University and the creation of Microsoft.
In 1973, Bill Gates entered Harvard University. In it, he meets his future partner - Steve Ballmer. Bill assumed that in the future he would follow in his father's footsteps or become a professor of mathematics, but both the first and the second were not destined to come true. Two years later, he was expelled for constant absenteeism, as well as for poor progress.
In 1975, Allen and Gates learn from the American magazine Popular Electronics that MITS has created a PC called the Altair 8800. Bill decides to propose a new BASIC language to the company that created the computer. He lied that the language was created specifically for Altair, and besides, he did not have any program at all. Since MITS was interested in the proposal, the guys began to create program code, they checked its work on various PCs. To their surprise, the quickly created program worked natively on Altair, after which MITS wanted to buy the rights to it. That same year, Bill and Paul open their own software company. They call it Micro-Soft (after a short time, the hyphen was removed from the name).
In the late 1970s, computers built around the Intel 8080 mostly used the CP/M operating system. In 1980, IBM began searching for an operating system for its PC, the IBM PC. At first it was assumed that they would use the CP / M system. But the negotiations with Digital Research did not lead to the desired result. After that, IBM turned to Microsoft.
Microsoft at that time did not have its own OS for PCs using the Intel 8086 processor. But Bill Gates managed to find a way out. He buys a license for the 86-DOS system (QDOS) from the owners of Seattle Computer Products (after a while, all rights to 86-DOS were purchased). This operating system was a clone of CP/M. Microsoft significantly improves 86-DOS and adapts it for the IBM PC, after which MS-DOS is born. Bill earned $50,000 on this OS.After that, Microsoft releases the Word application as well as Excel.Then Microsoft takes on the creation of a completely new OS with a graphical interface (at that time such a system was already used by Apple).In November 1985, a new OS is released - Microsoft Windows, it uses technology that allows you to control a PC through a graphical interface. So the era of Windows has come. It was thanks to her that Bill became famous, and also fabulously rich.When Bill studied at Harvard, during one of the lectures, he told the professor that at thirty he would become a millionaire. But it so happened that at the age of 31 he became a billionaire.In 1990, Microsoft released a web browser called Internet Explorer.In 1993, about 25 million people used Microsoft Windows. This is how Windows became the most popular operating system in the world.n 1995, Windows 95 went on sale. In just a couple of weeks, as many as 7 million copies were sold.In 1998, Windows 98 was released, it was practically no different from Windows 95. After a while, Windows 2000 comes out.
In 2001, a new OS appears - Windows XP. Many people still use it today. In addition, it has become the most produced OS in the world.
Other Bill Gates Achievements.
In 2001, a new Microsoft operating system, Windows XP, went on sale, which appealed to users and is by far the most massive operating system in the world. By the end of 2006, Windows XP sold 538 million copies.
In 2004, Gates became an Investor when he connected his financial interests with the famous Warren Buffett. They co-founded Berkshire Hathaway. It's a company that combines funds from Geico (car insurance), Benjamin Moore (paints) and Fruit of the Loom (textiles). At one time, Gates acquired a stake in Bothell, a biotechnology company. As well as his corporation is a kind of fund in which the whole world invests. Six years after the introduction of Windows XP, the next generation of Microsoft's operating system, Windows Vista, and a new version of the Microsoft Office 2007 office suite are on sale.
On March 2, 2005, the British Foreign Office announced that Gates would be made a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, for his contribution to UK business and his efforts to alleviate world poverty. This is an analogue of the knighthood, which can only be received by a citizen of the United Kingdom, giving the right to be called "sir".
In June 2007, 34 years after entering Harvard, Bill Gates will receive a diploma from this educational institution. The leadership of one of the most prestigious universities in the world decided to give Gates, who left his studies of his own free will in 1975, a diploma for special merits.
Bill leaving Microsoft.
In early 2008, during the opening of the Consumer Electronics Show, the chief executive of Microsoft announced that he would soon leave Microsoft. Gates explained his act in such a way that after leaving, he will closely manage the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (he and his wife created it in 2000). This fund helps such areas as education, healthcare; Also, the fund is developing a vaccine against AIDS, there are programs to help poorly developed countries in which the population is starving.

At the end of June 2008, Gates transferred his authority to manage Microsoft to CEO Steve Ballmer (with whom he studied at the university). Despite this, Gates continues to be the chairman of directors. In addition, he remains the owner, who has the largest number of shares in Microsoft Corporation (almost 9%).

After Gates left, Microsoft continues to work on new products. In October 2009, Windows 7 is released. In 2012, Windows 8 appears on the shelves. At the time of July 2013, more than 100 million of its licenses were sold.
Interesting Facts.
· Bill Gates earns $6,659 per minute.
· February 4, 1998 in Brussels, Bill Gates during an official visit to the European Union gets a cake thrown in the face. It happened during Gates' entrance to a government building where he was going to give a speech on an educational topic. The joker escaped, but his assistant and cameraman were detained and subsequently released, as the famous "cake thrower", Belgian Noel Godin, appeared on television, where he took the blame. Gates refused to take legal action. Among the organizers and direct executor of this action was the famous Belgian director Remy Belvaux.
Eristalis gatesi is a fly named after Bill Gates.
· On June 7, 2007, Bill Gates was considered a graduate of Harvard University. The decision to award Gates a diploma was made by the university administration.

Tests.
1.What year was Bill Gates born?

a)1965 b)1955 c)1975
2.In what city was he born?
a) Washington b) New York c) Great Britain
3. How long does Bill Gates write a program that helps regulate traffic?
a)16 b) 15 c)14
4. Where does Bill Gates go to Harvard University?
a)1965 b)1956 c)1973
5. In what year is the new OS released - Microsoft Windows, it uses technology that allows you to control your PC through a graphical interface?
a)1965 b)1985 c)1973
6. When does Microsoft release a web browser called Internet Explorer?
a)1965 b)1985 c)1990
7. when was Windows 98 released?
a)1965 b)1998 c)1990
8. What year did Gates become an Investor when he connected his financial interests with the famous Warren Buffett?
a)1965 b)1998 c)2004
9. In what year, during the opening of the Consumer Electronics Show, the chief executive of Microsoft announced that he would soon leave Microsoft?
a)2008 b)1998 c)2004
10. When will Gates hand over his leadership of Microsoft to CEO Steve Ballmer (he went to university with him)?
a)2008 b)1998 c)2004

Questions?

1.What year was Bill Gates born?
2.In what city was he born?
3. How long does Bill Gates write a program that helps regulate traffic?
4. Where does Bill Gates go to Harvard University?
5. In what year is the new OS released - Microsoft Windows, it uses technology that allows you to control your PC through a graphical interface?
6. When does Microsoft release a web browser called Internet Explorer?
7. when was Windows 98 released?
8. What year did Gates become an Investor when he connected his financial interests with the famous Warren Buffett?
9. In what year, during the opening of the Consumer Electronics Show, the chief executive of Microsoft announced that he would soon leave Microsoft?
10. When will Gates hand over his leadership of Microsoft to CEO Steve Ballmer (he went to university with him)?

Vocabulary?

1.control- boshqaruv 2. Hand- qo'l
3. release- ozod qilish 4. Leadership- etakchilik
5. opening- ochilish 6. Allows- imkon beradi
7. connected- ulangan 8. During- davomida
9. announced- e'lon qildi 10. Authority- hokimiyat
11. population- aholi 12. Chairman- rais
13. caused- sabab bo'lgan 14. Fairly- odilona
15. character – xarakter 16. Competition- musobaqa
17. included – kiritilgan 18. Become- bo'lish
19. management- boshqaruv 20. Financial- moliyaviy