A Report On

“MICRO-PROJECT”
Of
SUCCESSFUL ENTERPRENEUR – BILL GATES

Subject : Entrepreneurship Development

Submitted for the

“DIPLOMA IN COMPUTER ENGINEERING”
MSBTE, MUMBAI

Department of Computer Engineering

Abhaysinhraje Bhonsle Institute of Technology (Polytechnic),
Shendre , Satara .

Academic Year - 2021-22

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 Vidyavardhini Charitable Trust’s
Abhaysinhraje Bhonsle Institute of Technology (Polytechnic)
Shahunagar-Shendre, Tal/Dist. - Satara, 415519 (MS)

CERTIFICATE
This is certified that Micro-Project Report submitted by
following members of (CO-5I)

NAME ROLL NO
PRANALI KHARAT ROLL NO : 28

Is partial fulfillment to the requirement for the award of Diploma in

Computer Engineering (MSBTE) and is a record of their own work
carried under our own supervision and guidance.

PROJECT GUIDE H.O.D PRINCIPAL

Khandale sir Mrs. Nik am R. A. Mr. Dhumal S. U.

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 INDEX

SR.NO NAME PAGE NO

1 BILL GATE
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2 EARLY LIFE
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3 IBM PARTNERSHIP
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4 WINDOWS
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5 MANAGEMENT STYLE
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6 REFERANCE
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 ACTION PLAN

SR.NO Details of Activity Start Date Finish Date Responsible

Team Member
1. Selected the topic for Micro
15-02-22 25-02-22 Pranali
project
2. Organized things required for
25-02-22 05-03-22 pranali
Micro project
3. Browsed for information of
05-03-22 15-03-22 pranali
raw data
4. Attended extra lecture for
15-03-22 25-03-22 pranali
project
5. Prepared notes accordingly 25-03-22 05-04-22 pranali
6. Created Word document with
05-04-22 15-04-22 Pranali
our teacher’s help
7. Made required corrections
15-04-22 30-04-22 pranali
after discussion
8. Also created a PDF document
to make a hard copy of the 30-04-22 15-05-22 Pranali
report

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 Bill Gate
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business
magnate, software developer, investor, author, and philanthropist. He is a co-
founder of Microsoft, along with his late childhood friend Paul Allen.
During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief
executive officer (CEO), president and chief software architect, while also
being the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. He was a major
entrepreneur of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.

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Early life
Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington on October 28, 1955. He is the son
of William H. Gates Sr. (1925–2020) and Mary Maxwell Gates (1929–1994).
His ancestry includes English, German, and Irish/Scots-Irish. His father was
a prominent lawyer, and his mother served on the board of directors for First
Interstate BancSystem and the United Way of America

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IBM partnership
IBM, the leading supplier of computer equipment to commercial enterprises
at the time, approached Microsoft in July 1980 concerning software for its
upcoming personal computer, the IBM PC, after Bill Gates's mother, Mary
Maxwell Gates, mentioned Microsoft to John Opel, IBM's CEO. IBM first
proposed that Microsoft write the BASIC interpreter. IBM's representatives
also mentioned that they needed an operating system, and Gates referred them
to Digital Research (DRI), makers of the widely used CP/M operating
system.]IBM's discussions with Digital Research went poorly, however, and
they did not reach a licensing agreement. IBM representative Jack Sams
mentioned the licensing difficulties during a subsequent meeting with Gates
and asked if Microsoft could provide an operating system. A few weeks later,
Gates and Allen proposed using 86-DOS, an operating system similar to
CP/M, that Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products (SCP) had made for
hardware similar to the PC. Microsoft made a deal with SCP to be the
exclusive licensing agent of 86-DOS, and later the full owner. Microsoft
employed Paterson to adapt the operating system for the PC[64] and delivered
it to IBM as PC DOS for a one-time fee of $50,000.

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Windows
Microsoft and Gates launched their first retail version of Microsoft Windows
on November 20, 1985, in an attempt to fend off competition from Apple's
Macintosh GUI, which had bewitched consumers with its simplicity and ease
of use. In August of the following year, the company struck a deal with IBM
to develop a separate operating system called OS/2. Although the two
companies successfully developed the first version of the new system, the
partnership deteriorated due to mounting creative differences.[70] The
operating system grew out of DOS in an organic fashion over a decade, until
with Windows 95 the DOS text screen was relegated to the closet. Windows
XP, released one year after Gates stepped down as Microsoft CEO, reportedly
was the first to not be based on DOS.[71] Windows 8.1 was the last version of
the OS released before Gates left the chair of the firm to John W. Thompson
on February 5, 2014.

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Management style

Gates delivers a speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, January

2008

Gates had primary responsibility for Microsoft's product strategy from the
company's founding from 1975 until 2006. He gained a reputation for being
distant from others; an industry executive complained in 1981 that "Gates is
notorious for not being reachable by phone and for not returning phone
calls."[73] An Atari executive recalled that he showed Gates a game and
defeated him 35 of 37 times. When they met again a month later, Gates "won
or tied every game. He had studied the game until he solved it. That is a
competitor".[74]

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REFERANCE
 Gates, Bill. "An exclusive interview with Bill Gates". Financial Times
1 (2013). online
 Gates, Bill. "Remarks of Bill Gates, Harvard Commencement 2007".
The Harvard Gazette 7 (2007). Online
 Kinsley, Michael, and Conor Clarke, Eds. Creative Capitalism: A
Conversation With Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Other Economic
Leaders (Simon and Schuster, 2009).

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