Infos about William Henry Bill Gates
| Date of birth/place | 28.10.1955/suborb of Seattle |
| Parents | Lawyer |
| Nickname | Bill "Trey". The name Trey deduces itself from thecomplete name "Wolliam Gates III". Its opponents gaves him another nickname "Gator" (alligator, crocodile). |
| Hobbies |
Alleged Gates does not look TV because he is frightend to develop, a "unhealthy interest in banal transmissions" Polker, Bridge Reading (favourite books: "Der Fänger im Roggen" of J.D. Salinger, "The great Gatsby" of F. Scott Fitzgerald and "A Seperate Peace" of John Knowles) |
| Favourite film | Films with Carry Grant |
| Music | Frank Sinatra and the stars of the 50's and 40's. |
| Books | "The Road Ahead" of Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold und Peter Rinearson |
| "Gates" ("Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry") of Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews | |
| "Hard-Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire" of James Wallace and Jim Erickson | |
| "The Microsoft Way: The Real Story of How the Company Outsmarts Its Competition" of Tandall E. Stross | |
| "I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year With Microsoft" of Gred Moody | |
| "Microsklaven" ("Microserfs") of Douglas Coupland | |
| " Barbarians Led by Bill Gates - Microsoft from the Inside" of Jennifer Edstrom and Marlin Eller | |
| 1967 | Gates and his friend at school Paul Allen starts to develop computerlanguages. |
| 70's | Study at the Havard University |
| middle of 70's | Gates and Allen build a version of the computer language BASIC |
| 1975 | Gates leaves the university without a examinatin. |
| 1975 | Gates and Paul Allen create the company Microsoft in Albuquerque (New Mexico, USA). |
| 1978 | Microsoft has 15 employes |
| 1980 | Gates succeed the legendary Deale with IBM. IBM use the operating system MSDOS on its computers. Numerous companies follow. |
| 1984 | Bill Gates become acquainted with the 5 years older computer entrepreneur Ann Winblad. During virtual dates (e.g. both look at the same time at different places a motion picture film and telephone there after for hours). |
| 1987 | Bill Gates and Ann Winblad separate (after the marriage with Melinda 1994 Gates can stay a short-holiday one time a year whith Ann) |
| 1.1.1994 | Bill Gates marries Melinda French on Hawaii. Witness at themarriage is Steve Ballmer. |
| 26.4.1996 | Bills daughter Jennifer Katherineis born. |
| Juni 1999 | Birth of the 2. child |
| 1999 | Bill and his wife gives the biggest Gift (3 milliard US Dollar) ever donated by private people to the "Bill and Melinda gate Foundation". |
| 14./27.1.2000 | Resignation |