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William Henry Bill Gates III born October 28

1955 was an investor, philanthropist, author,

former CEO, and current chairman of

Microsoft. Founded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975

and launched the first version of Microsoft

Windows on November 20, 1985.

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Gates with Paul Allen at the age of 14

founded their first computer company

Microsoft by developing BASIC a computer

language for Altair 8080 pc.Microsoft relocated to Washington in 1980 &

developed COBOL & FORTRAN.

Microsoft developed MS DOS an

operating system for IBMs first PCand Gates persuaded two other

software firms to work for it.

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As Microsoft flourished Gates recognized the

need for professional management. Thus he

bought in Steve Ballmer and Jon Shipley.

Gates was a visionary of the company andacquired a well structured management

team to run Microsoft.

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Steve Paul Jobs(February 24, 1955 October

5, 2011) was an American computer

entrepreneur and inventor.

Was co-founder, chairman and CEO of AppleInc. and also served as CEO of Pixar

Animation Studios.

Was first to see the potential of Xerox

PARCs mouse driven GUI, that led to thecreation of Macintosh.

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BILL GATES

Participative and

Laissez faire.

Demanding fromemployees and

provided autonomy

for innnovation.

Expert and legitimatepower

Strategic visionary

STEVE JOBS

Autocratic

One man show and

limited autonomy toemployees

Expert power and

coercive power

Dual personality

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Theory Y leader

Good interpersonal an

human skills

Theory X leader

Bad interpersonal and

human skills

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FACTSHEET

Type Public

Traded as NASDAQ:MSFT; Dow Jones;

S&P 500 Industry computer software, consumer

electronics, video games,hardware, IT consulting

Founder(s) Bill Gates, Paul Allen

Headquarters Redmond Washington

Key people Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates

Employees 90000

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With the success of Windows, the office

application suite, and Internet Explorer,

Microsoft has become a household name.

Gates was very flexible and quick towardschanges an was always innovating products.

Coming up with SPOT(Smart Personal Objects

Technology) a watch fixed with Microsofts

latest software innovations. Tied with handset manufacturers Samsung

and Motorola to roll out smart phones based

on Windows.

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Acquired Skype and thus boosted voice and

video communications.

Launched Windows 8 against I pads.

Its search engine Bing is steadily capturingmarket share since its inception in 2009.

Introduced Office 365.

Increased R&D budget to $7 billion.