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Bill Gates


            
             (Bill) Gates - Chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft.
             He is reported to be the richest private individual in the .
             World topping the Forbes list of richest people for both 1996 and 1997 .
             INVENTIONS .
             Gates and his pal Paul Allen produced two programs in the 8th grade: one played .
             tic-tac-toe. Before long, they were moonlighting as adolescent computer consultants for a local .
             corporation. In high school, Gates and his friends devised a program that analyzed traffic data .
             for his hometown .
             Windows takes over .
             Soon after Gates unveiled his Windows 3.0 program in 1990, the applications software .
             industry was crying uncle. Over 60 million copies of the Windows progam were sold, which .
             established Microsoft's operating system as the PC software standard and left companies like .
             Lotus and WordPerfect scrambling because they had been creating applications for IBM's .
             system, the OS/2. Six years after the Windows launch, Microsoft dominates the word processing .
             and spreadsheet mark. .
             Corporation as Cult .
             The suburban Microsoft "campus," a cluster of 35 low-rise buildings, is set among lawns, .
             groves of white pines and shady courtyards that make the place resemble a college. But in .
             contrast to the sedate intellectualism of the average college, Microsoft rewards the brusque .
             "math camp" mentality: a lot of cocky geeks willing to wave their fingers and yell with the cute .
             conviction that all problems have a right answer. Among Gates favorite phrases is "That's the .
             stupidest thing I've ever heard," and victims wear it as a badge of honor, bragging about it the .
             way they do about getting a late-night E-mail from him. .
             POSSESSIONS .
             Built into a bluff fronting Lake Washington, the home Gates has been working on for .


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