oh and i think that 'we are there' with this one....this article...translated from the romanian by google translate....hulbrusch had wanted me to read it...in order to 'get the ins and outs' of MIT and that 'ill cult financial program'....

http://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-arhiva-1126345-bill-gates-vine-romania.htm

Bill Gates comes to Romania
Bogdan Asaftei HotNews.ro
Monday, January 22, 2007, 0:00








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Bill Gates, Microsoft's boss will pay a visit to Romania in early February. Microsoft's Gates is cofounder group, leader in software, and the richest man in the world. The information was confirmed for HotNews.ro by Paula Apreutesei, communications director at Microsoft Romania.
Gates' visit comes amid present it to work Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland), which will take place from January 24 to 28.
According to sources who wished to remain anonymous told HotNews.ro Bill Gates Romania will participate in the launch of Microsoft's product.
Bill Gates and Microsoft
Bill Gates adventure began in 1975. After reading an article in "People Elecronics" about computer Altair 8800, Gates he contacted young people at MITS, the company that made the computer to do a demonstration of an implementation of the Altair BASIC programming language.
BASIC interpreter developed by Bill Gates with Paul Allen, his childhood friend, offering new opportunities to expand practical this hardware platforms. Following the demonstration made, MITS BASIC interpreter decides to implement these systems.
Following this success, Bill Gates dropped out of university and founded Microsoft in Albuquerque (New Mexico) near MITS office. The company was located in one room and only two employees (Bill Gates and Paul Allen). At that time "microcomputer" Altair was sold for $ 397. He had no monitor and no hard disk.
In the early 80's IBM creates personal computers and Bill Gates proposes an operating system that will make his career. It is MS-DOS (Disk Operating System from Microsoft) and is chosen by IBM to be installed on new PCs. Gates goes on, and only a few years, implement Windows operating system that is used today by millions of users.
The following Microsoft Office, which provides solutions to all users of desktop applications.
Bill Gates, the world's biggest philanthropist
According to Forbes magazine, Bill Gates is the richest man in the world. His fortune is estimated somewhere around figures of $ 50 billion. Because of its enormous wealth, the United States IRS is required to store data on a computer it special, in fact, a computer system comprises multiple computers.
In 2000, Gates and his wife, Melinda, established the charity foundation "and Medlinda Bill Gates' philanthropic largest in the world with a fund of nearly 30 billion dollars. The foundation is known for contributions to improving public health in Africa.
Bill, Melinda Gates and Bono, lead singer of rock band U2, was declared by Time magazine "Men of the Year" in 2005 for contributions from Africa.
Gates Foundation has donated more than 1.5 billion Global Alliance for Vaccines and association Immunization, which plays an important role in the world's poor vaccination and eradication of diseases that have no place in the world in the early twenty-first century (malaria, dysentery etc. .).
It seeks president for Microsoft
According to his own statements, Bill Gates will retire from Microsoft in 2008 management group. Among the possible substitutes are circulated IT king names like Paul Ottelini (Intel), Jonatan Schwartz (Sun Microsystems), Marc Benioff (Sales Force), Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google) or Ray Ozzie (Microsoft).
However, it is likely that none of these figures should not be nominated for this position. As well, any young man who has a computer at home and is full of innovative ideas can aspire to this crucial position. The future is open.
Bill Gates - short biography
October 28, 1955-William Henry Gates III was born in Seattle.1967 - begins studies at Lakeside School, one of the most popular schools in Seattle.1973 - begins Harvard education, but quit in the third year university courses.1977 - along with Paul Allen, his childhood friend, founded Microsoft.1980 - Bill Gates made the first big business with IBM for $ 56.000. MS-DOS operating system available on IBM PC products.1985 - Launch first version of the Windows operating system that will revolutionize the world of IT.1989 - Launch Microsoft Office, which is meanwhile the most popular office application suite.1986 - Microsoft is a public company and is publicly traded.2000 - Together with his wife, founded the charitable foundation "Bill and Melinda Gates."2005 - Queen awarded him the title of "Knight of the British Empire."June 15, 2006 - Bill Gates announces his retirement from Microsoft, since July 2008.