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William H. Gates III William (Bill) H. Gates III is chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft had revenues ( 收入) of US 536.84 billion for the fiscal year( 财政年度)ending June 2004, and employs more than 55,000 people in 85 countries and regions.Born on Oct. 28, 1955, Gates grew up in Seattle with his two sisters. Their father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney（律师）. Their late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher.Gates attended public elementary school and the private Lakeside School. There, he discovered his interest in software and began programming computers at age 13. 0 In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer, now Microsofts chief executive officer. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer — the MITS Altair.In his junior year, Gates left Harvard to devote his energies to Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Guided by a belief that the computer would be a valuable tool on every office desktop and in every home, they began developing software for personal computers. Gates foresight and his vision for personal computing have been central to the success of Microsoft and the software industry. ? In 1999, Gates wrote Business @ the Speed of Thought, a book that shows how computer technology can solve business problems in fundamentally new ways. The book was published in 25 languages and is available in more than 60 countries. Business @ the Speed . of Thought has received wide critical acclaim (称赞) , and was listed on the bestseller lists of the New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal and Amazon, com. Gates previous book, The Road Ahead, published in 1995, held the No. 1 spot on the New York Times bestseller list for seven weeks.Gates has donated the proceeds ( 收益) of both books to non-profit organizations that support the use of technology in educ