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Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington, United States.
Bill Gates is the current chairmen of the largest personal computer software company Microsoft
Co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen back in 1975
One of the wealthiest people in the world, former ranked number one richest person
Bill Gates graduated from Lakeside school and went on to attend Harvard College
Cofounded “Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation” with his wife Melinda Gates
Created retail version of Microsoft Windows on November 20, 1985
Currently worth around $61 Billion

Bill Gates photographed after traffic violation in 1977	Bill Gates at Harvard Commencement on June 2007	Bill Gates on the cover of Time Magazine: 1984
Bill Gates delivering a keynote address to the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference: 2001	Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates	Bill Gate’s house which took seven years to build and cost $63 million
Bill Gates introduces the Tablet PC in 2002	Bill Gates accepting the James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award: November 15 2006

April 16, 2000 - The New York Times - How To Give Away $21.8 Billion read more
April 25, 2011 - CBC News: Business - Bill Gates now biggest CN shareholder read more
May 11, 2011 - The New York Times - Bill Gates Calls for More U.S. Clean Energy Investment, Urges American Companies to Work With China read more
January 26, 2012 - BBC News: Business - Davos 2012: Bill Gates commits $750 million to fight AIDS read more
April 24, 2012 - Forbes - The World’s Billionaires read more
Junes 26, 2012 - WND Diversion - Can Bill Gates take down Apple’s IPad? read more

Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero!	Bill Gates Speech at Harvard (part 1)
Davos Annual Meeting 2008 - Bill Gates	CES 2008 Keynote Video - Bill Gates' Last Day at Microsoft

Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque on April 4, 1975
Bill Gates resigned as Chief Executive Officer at Microsoft in January 2000
He then transitioned from full time work at Microsoft to part time in June 2006
His last full day at Microsoft was on June 27, 2008
Bill Gates however is still a non-executive chairman of Microsoft
Bill Gates created OS/2 operating system with Microsoft which was independent from IBM’s partnership

Bill Gates and his wife Melinda French got married on January 1, 1994
Both have 3 children: Jennifer Katherine Gates, Rory John Gates, Phoebe Adele Gates
Bill Gates only permits his children to use Microsoft equivalent products