William H. Gates
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Microsoft Corporation
William (Bill) H. Gates III is co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation, the world's leading provider of software for personal computers.
Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955. He and his two sisters grew up in Seattle. Their father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. Mary Gates, their late mother, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent and chairwoman of United Way International.
Gates attended public elementary school before moving on to the private Lakeside School in North Seattle. It was at Lakeside that Gates began his career in personal computer software, programming computers at age 13.
In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer, who is now Microsoft's president. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer - the MITS Altair. BASIC was first developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth College in the mid-1960s. In his junior year, Gates dropped out of Harvard to devote his energies full-time to Microsoft, a company he had started in 1975 with his boyhood friend Paul Allen. Guided by a belief that the personal computer would be a valuable tool on every office desktop and in every home, they began developing software for personal computers.
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Quality of writing
The writing is quite formal, and this allows a reader to understand each point with ease. The report states the term 'BASIC', however this is quite an important technical term and this isn't explained. All technical terms will need to be explained, to ensure that any reader can understand the student.
Level of analysis
The report does explain a number of Bill Gate's actions, however the student hasn't considered why this might be. For high marks, the student would need to suggest reasons for his actions. For example the report could mention 'Bill Gates aims at focusing on the long-term of the company, rather than short-term profits. This might be due to that Bill understands that by focusing on the future technology, the business will be able to understand the newest technology and adapt their products to the every changing landscape'. This would should the examiner, the student's own view on why Bill Gates undertook such actions. As this would allow the examiner to see if the student can understand the decisions and analysis these effectively.
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In summary, the report explains Bill Gates actions's and his vision for his company, Microsoft. Along with his personal actions towards charities. However the report could include the student's understanding of his actions which could include a little more analysis from the student. The report shows good understand of Microsoft in it's current form, and this knowledge is sued thought-out the report. As the report states 'where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer, who is now Microsoft's president.'. This shows the examiner, that the student is fully aware of the past and present regrading Bill Gates. The report gives a good in-sight into Bill Gates, which is quite in-depth and detailed. The report mentions how he has developed the company, Microsoft and a number of his charity projects.