BillGates.ppt

Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,*,Click to edit Master title style,Bill Gates,制作：,ZDIXIN,Skinny,，,shy,，,and awkward,，,teenaged Bill Gates seemed an unlikely successor to his overachieving,parents.His,father,，,powerfully built and six feet six inches,tall,was,a very famous lawyer in,Seattle,and,his mother served on charitable boards and ran the United,Way.While,he showed enormous talent for math and,logic,young,Bill,a,middle,child,was,no one,s idea of a natural,leader,let,alone a future billionaire who would change American business.,Schooling Experiences,Born in 1995,，,Gates attended public elementary school,，,and enrolled in the private Lakeside School at the age of,twelve.The,following,year,Gates,wrote his first computer,program,at,a time when computers were still room-sized machines run by,scientis,ts,in white,coats.Soon,afterwards,he,and his friend Paul Allen wrote a scheduling,peogram,for the,school.Still,in high school,Gates and Allen founded a company called,Traf,-O-Data which analyzed city traffic data.,Gates set off for Harvard University intending to become a,lawy,er,like his,father.Still,shy and,awkward,he,seldom went out to parties unless dragged by his friend Steve,Ballmer,whom,he later repaid by naming him president of Microsoft.,Start of the Businesses,One day in December 1974,Allen,who was working at Honeywell outside of,Boston,showed,Gates a,Popular,Mechanics cover about the Altair 8800,a$397 computer from M.I.T.S.,computing that anyone with great enthusiasm for computers could,build.The,only thing the computer,lacked,besides,a keyboard and,monit,or,was,software.Gates,and Allen contacted the head of,M.I.T.S.and,said they could provide a version of BASIC for the Altair.After a successful,demonstrati,on at the companys,headquarters,M.I.T.S.signed,an agreement with Gates and Allen for programming la,nguages,.The pair moved to New Mexico and start,ed,Micro-soft,（,which was later spelt as“Microsoft”,）,.,Although the companys first five clients went bankrupt,（破产）,the company struggled on,moving to Seattle in 1979.The following year,IBM asked Gates to provide an operating system for its first personal computer.Gates purchased a system called QDOS(Quick and Dirty Operating System)for$50,000 from another company,changed the name to MS-DOS,and licensed,（许可）,it to IBM.The IBM PC took the market by storm when it was introduced in 1981-and money streamed into Microsoft,ensuring,（确保）,the companys survival,（残存）,over the next several years.Microsoft continued focusing on the software market,adding consumer applications(,应用,)like Microsoft Word.,Development of Microsoft,In 1986,when the company went public,Gates became a billionaire at the age of 31.The following year,the company introduced,（面市）,its first version of Windows program,，,and by 1993 it was selling a million copies a month.When Windows 95 was,intr,oduced,in August 1995,seven million copies were sold in the first six weeks alone.Microsofts software became so widespread that the U.S.Justice Depart,ment,began a number of long-lasting investigations,（调查）,against the,company,involving,it in,continu,ous,lawsuit battles.,In 1995,Gates dramatically(,戏剧性的,)changed the direction of the entire company and focused on the Internet.While some of his efforts,including Microsoft Network and Web shows,were,fruitless,the,company quickly gained ground on,（追及）,Netscape with its popular Internet Explorer browser.,Family Life and Charitable Causes,Gates got married on Jan.1,1994,to Melinda,French,a,marketing executive at,Microsoft.The,couple had two,children:a,daughter,Jennifer,Katharine,Gates,born,in 1996,and a,son,Rory,John,Gates,born,in 1999.,Bill and Melinda Gates have contributed more than$17 billion to a foundation to support charitable,proj,ects,in the areas of global health and,learning,with,the hope that as we move into the 21,st,century,advances,in these critical areas will be available for all,people.To,date,the,Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has,comm,itted,more than$300 million to organizations working in global,health;more,than$300 million to creating learning,opportunities,including,the Gates Library,Initi,ative,which brings,computer,Internet,access and training to pub,lic,libraries in low-income communities in the United States and,Canada;and,more than$54 million to community projects in the Pacific Northwest.,Other Business Interests,In addition to his passion for,computer,Gates,is interested in,biotechnology.He,sits on the board of the,Icos,Corporation and is a shareholder in Darwin Mole,cular.He,also founded Corbis,Corporation,which,is developing one of the largest resources of visual information in the,world.Gates,also,has,along,with cellular telephone pioneer Craig,McCaw,put,money into,Teledesic,a,company that is working on an ambitious plan to send hundreds of satellites around the earth to provide worldwide two-way broadband,telecommunicaions,service.,（）,1.This passage mainly gives a description of Bill,Gateslife,story and career development.,（）,2.As a young,boy,Bill,Gates had an outgoing personality and was regarded as a natural leader.,（）,3.Allen and Gates were attracted by a magazine cover and started their own,bussiness,as a result.,（）,4.As a matter of,fact,Bill,Gates was not the initial inventor of MS-DOS.,（）,5.The popularity of the Microsoft caused lawsuits the company.,（）,6.Melinda French has never worked for the Microsoft company.,（）,7.Bill and Melinda Gates have contributed a great deal to charitable causes.,（）,8.Bill,Gatess,business interests are limited to computer and biotechnology only.,T,F,T,T,T,F,T,F,Thank You!,