Bill Gates Resign after 30 years of Innovation
On Friday, the man most responsible for the fact that Microsoft Windows in our homes and offices, forever changed the way we live and work, Microsoft will leave after 33 years in Redmond, Washington, software Goliath. Bill Gates, 52, leaves behind his daily tasks in the company, co-founder, along with childhood friend Paul Allen in 1975, full-time ambassador to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, he and his wife founded in 2000 to strengthen health and education in the world.
History Gates in Microsoft, which parallels a personal computer, which was little more than a tool for scholars and fans before Windows operating system from the PC accessible to everyone else. The company last year earned more than $ 51 million people are more than 78000 people and is located in 105 countries and regions worldwide. And he was very rich, an estimated personal fortune of $ 58 million, which he will be able to become a philanthropist.
Microsoft, certainly more than just Windows and gates drive to power in new areas, such as word processing software, databases and web browsers, the company increased its growth. This objective is also a company in hot water with the U.S. – The Ministry of Justice (including antitrust case, which lasted for six years), which has repeatedly been accused of blocking Microsoft from its competitors, wrapping his best-selling operating system software with its Windows Explorer Web The browser and Windows Media Player (for playing audio and video files on your PC).
“Bill Gates is the quintessential risk taker,” said Jesus Schuler, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Lemelson-MIT program, non-profit organizations, hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for inventors. “Understanding that innovation, the risks and agrees with the prospect of failure.”
Under the leadership of Gates and Microsoft achieved much more than what has gone wrong, turning the computer simply a series of calculations in the calculation of a platform for mass communication. This was important for future generations of entrepreneurs. “How many business plans calculations using software Microsoft?” Schuler calls. “Everyone has the ability to be inventive, and Bill Gates and Microsoft tools that are used to create and test these ideas.”
Scientific American Gates crossed the road in some cases during the year. Here’s an example:
Articles sciamo Gates Foundation in December 2006 issue ( “The robot in every home”) is exploring the prospects of robotics, and part of this technology to address the most pressing problems.
Scientific American Internet caught with gates in this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where they are detailed his ideas in robotics in the session and Q and video podcast interview.
In May 2004 in Scientific American Gary Stix with Gates said of his interest in artificial intelligence and the need for continued investigations.
adapted from http://www.sciam.com/
