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=[|Bill Gates]= "Most influential person of the 20th century." -Time Magazine =**Foundation/Charitable Being**= Chairman of Microsoft Chairman of Corbis Co-Chair of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Director of Berkhire Hathaway CEO of Cascade Investment Fifth Most Powerful man on earth

Awards
Howard Vollum Award (Award for Science and Technology)

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He basically jumped right into computer programing, when his school purchased computers from money they raised he and his classmate Paul Allen started a class involving computer programing. They sold they’re first computer program to there school for about $14,200. Then shortly after that Microsoft was born.

Volunteerism
He has taken his knowledge in computer, and technology and turned it around to benefit the world, and everything living around it. He has joined scientist to find a way to block [|hurricanes] from destroying the southern part of the U.S. And now his goal is to find [|vaccines], for most uncured diseases, such as cancer. He also donated $28 billion dollars to charity. Bill and Melinda Gate foundation is a charity he set up, and its about helping people of the world stay healthy by providing health care for them. I think is a big part of him and even Microsoft, on the other side they are making the computer interface easy accessible by everyone. Different languages, easy interface, and understandable for “older people”. I think he has done a lot in volunteering. Patent Toward Hurricane Prevention Patent for Double clicking ||
 * Patents **
 * Patent for Scrolling

He has about 5,000 patents over the U.S, and about 12,000 everywhere else. Also about 3,000 to 5,000 patents waiting to be approved by the USPO (United States Patent Offices). Some include double clicking, scrolling, and ideas on hurricane prevention.

=INVENTIONS=

1984-1994: Windows and Office
Microsoft windows, Microsoft office, and Windows 3.0

1995-2005: Internet and 32 bit-era
Windows 95, MSNBC, Windows CE 1.0, Windows XP, XBOX, and Windows Media Player

2006-Present: Windows Vista and cloud computing
Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Store, Windows 7, Windows Mobile

Those are just a few of Microsoft's inventions there are plenty more.
Gates is one of the most famous entrepreneurs and he has helped to revolutionize personal computing. In fact, a 2002 survey revealed that teenagers in Hong Kong and China looked up to Bill Gates more than they did to Mao Tse-tungin, a Chinese Communist leader.

[|Money he makes] Information from ebsco host Microsoft website and Google
 * 1) Business success Microsoft has made 101 billion dollars this company has made windows 7 and Microsoft word 2011. It is also one of the most successful companies.
 * 1) Bill Gates makes $536.74 a second!
 * 2) The size of the company is huge he has expanded worldwide and sells software and programs all over the world.

Dropped out of Harvard University after 3 years, Graduated from Lakeside school in Seattle, Washington
Company- Microsoft chairman Number of users- around 250 million Interesting Facts about Bill Gates & Microsoft

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