Co-founder of Microsoft Corp.
Founded: 1975
Ultimately, the PC will be a window to everything people are interested inand everything we need to know.Bill Gates Some see him as an innovative visionary who sparked a computer revolution. Others see him as a modern-day robber baron whose predatory practices have stifled competition in the software industry. Regardless of what his supporters and detractors may think, few can argue that Bill
Gates is one of, if not the most successful entrepreneur of the 20th century. In just 25 years, he built a two-man operation into a multibillion-dollar colossus and made himself the richest man in the world somewhere along the way. Yet he accomplished this feat not by inventing new technology, but by taking existing technology, adapting it to a specific market, and then dominating that market through innovative promotion and cunning business savvy.
Gates first exposure to computers came while he was attending the prestigious Lakeside School in Seattle. A local company offered the use of its computer to the school through a Teletype link, and young Gates became entranced by the possibilities of the primitive machine. Along with fellow student Paul Allen, he began ditching class to work in the schools computer room. Their work would soon pay off. When Gates was 15, he and Allen went into business together. The two teens netted $20,000 with Traf-O-Data,
a program they developed to measure traffic flow in the Seattle area. Despite his love and obvious aptitude for computer programming, and perhaps because of his fathers influence, Gates entered Harvard in the fall of 1973. By his own admission, he was there in body but not in spirit, preferring to spend his time playing poker and video games rather than attending class. All that changed in December 1974, when Allen showed Gates a magazine article about the worlds first microcomputer, the Altair 8800. Seeing an opportunity, Gates and Allen called the manufacturer, MITS, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and told the president they had written a version of the popular computer language BASIC for the Altair. When he said hed like to see it, Gates and Allen, who actually hadnt written anything, starting working day and night in Harvards computer lab. Because they did not have an Altair to work on, they were forced to simulate it on other computers. When Allen flew to Albuquerque to test the program on the Altair, neither he nor Gates was sure it would run. But run it did. Gates dropped out of Harvard and moved with Allen to Albuquerque, where they officially established Microsoft. MITS collapsed shortly thereafter, but Gates and Allen were already writing software for other computer start-ups including Commodore, Apple and Tandy Corp.
Much as Gates had anticipated, after the first IBM PCs were released, cloners such as Compaq began producing compatible PCs, and the market was soon flooded with clones. Like IBM, rather than produce their own operating systems, the cloners decided it was cheaper to purchase MS-DOS off the shelf. As a result, MS-DOS became the standard operating system for the industry, and Microsofts sales soared from $7 million in 1980 to $16 million in 1981.
This assessment should be completed within 30 minutes.
1. Change the entire font to times new roman size 12.
2. Remove one JPEG file which featuring zaharul reza
3. Insert page borders shadow width 3pt colour dark Blue, text 2, lighter 60% 4. First paragraph change into Columns two 5. Others paragraph change into column one
6. Removed the table in 2nd last paragraph 7. Removed the UNDERLINED from last paragraph & the italic
8. Removed the header. 9. Remove the footer. 10. Please ensure to do a spell & grammar check for the article.
11. One hyperlink please change the url into
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneur 12. Please insert page number. 13. Once complete, please save your document & rename with your own name & intake. 14. Create folder & rename the folder with your name & intake. 15. Cut & Paste your complete document into your new created folder.
16. Please send your folder fill with your document into Students
Folder @ file share server. With title DIP111 Word Assessment 11th July 2011.