Essays

=Isaiah Cornelius= 3/19/12 To start off this essay, my topic is about Bill Gates. He was a very inspirational guy who is still to this day apart of things that we use in todays lifetime. He is a co-founder of one of the most recognized brands in the computer industry with nearly every desktop computer using at least one software program from Microsoft. According to the Forbes magazine, Bill Gates is the richest man in the world and has held the number one position for many years. Gates was born and grew up in Seattle, Washington USA. His father, William H. Gates II was a Seattle attorney and his mother, Mary Maxwell Gates was a schoolteacher and chairperson of the United Way charity. Gates and his two sisters had a comfortable upbringing, with Gates being able to attend the exclusive secondary "Lakeside School". It basically is important that the “Lakeside School” was mentioned only because it was exclusive. Bill Gates started studying at Harvard University in 1973. Gates worked on a version of the programming language BASIC, which was the basis for the MITS Altair (the first microcomputer available). He did not go on to graduate from Harvard University as he left in his junior year to start what was to become the largest computer software company in the world; Microsoft Corporation. Bill Gates had some criticism based on his success with the computer industry. With his ambitious and aggressive business philosophy, Gates or his Microsoft lawyers have been in and out of courtrooms fighting legal battles almost since Microsoft began. Which made people wonder if the rumors were true or not. __** Dennis Lopes **__

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==My essay is about a the richest man known today, Bill Gates. In 1999, Gates wrote "Business at the Speed of Thought", a book that shows how computer technology can solve business problems in new ways. The book was published in 25 languages and is available in more than 60 countries. "Business at 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 on Amazon. Gates' previous book, "The Road Ahead", published in 1995, was at the top of the New York Times bestseller list for seven weeks.==

To enable people and businesses throughout the world to realize their full potential. After dropping out of Harvard Bill Gates and his partner Paul Allen set about revolutionizing the computer industry. Gates believed there should be a computer on every office desk and in every home.

In 1975 the company Micro-soft was formed, which was an abbreviation of microcomputer software. It soon became simply "Microsoft"® and went on to completely change the way people use computers.

Microsoft helped to make the computer easier to use with its developed and purchased software, and made it a commercial success. The success of Microsoft began with the MS-DOS computer operating system that Gates licensed to IBM. Gates also set about protecting the royalties that he could acquire from computer software by aggressively fighting against all forms of software piracy, effectively creating the retail software market that now exists today. This move was quite controversial at the time as it was the freedom of sharing that produced much innovation and advances in the newly forming software industry. But it was this stand against software piracy, that was to be central in the great commercial success that Microsoft went on to achieve.

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