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Earth-sheltered home. Bill Gates designed and owns a mansion that overlooks Lake Washington in Medina, Washington. The 66,000-square-foot (6,100 m 2) mansion [ 1] incorporates technology in its design. [specify][ 2] In 2009, property taxes were reported to be US$1.063 million on a total assessed value of US$147.5 million.
Bill Gates. William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his 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 ...
Melinda French Gates. Melinda French Gates[ 2] (born Melinda Ann French; August 15, 1964) is an American philanthropist, former multimedia product developer and manager at Microsoft, and the ex-wife of its co-founder and billionaire Bill Gates. [ 3] French Gates has consistently been ranked as one of the world's most powerful women by Forbes ...
Microsoft BASIC is the foundation software product of the Microsoft company and evolved into a line of BASIC interpreters and compiler (s) adapted for many different microcomputers. It first appeared in 1975 as Altair BASIC, which was the first version of BASIC published by Microsoft as well as the first high-level programming language ...
With a net worth of $130.4 billion as of May 4, 2021, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates most recently ranked as high as the fourth-richest person in the world, according to Forbes. His fortune ...
Take tech mogul Bill Gates. According to Entrepreneur magazine, the Microsoft Corp. co-founder and his former wife, Melinda French Gates, paid $2.7 million in property taxes last year – 700 ...
OS/2 (Operating System/2) is a series of computer operating systems, initially created by Microsoft and IBM under the leadership of IBM software designer Ed Iacobucci. [2] As a result of a feud between the two companies over how to position OS/2 relative to Microsoft's new Windows 3.1 operating environment, [3] the two companies severed the relationship in 1992 and OS/2 development fell to IBM ...
Thierry Chesnot/Getty Images Bill Gates just purchased a $43 million 5,800-square-foot home in Del Mar, California, reported Katherine Clarke for The Wall Street Journal. Gates has an estimated ...