‘Bill Gates’ surely one of the big names of the computer history. But in the near future his name may end up as merely as a footnote in the history pages of information technology as the new names will come to the scene. But certainly we can say that the last decade will be names after him when we think about computers and information technology. Many of his critics say that he took the advantage of the monopoly that he created and consistently built on it. Even many governments turned against him claiming that he is taking the advantage of monopoly and forcing the people to use only Microsoft products.
As everyone knows he emerged as a small entrepreneur who crates small software or application programs. But he was very lucky to sign leading hardware companies who were in search for suitable software. And that was just the beginning Bill was looking for. Soon with the introduction of Microsoft DOS and Windows 95 operating systems, he became the undisputed leader of the computer industry and thus occupied the position of world’s wealthiest man for a continuous thirteen years. After the introduction of Windows 95 operating system, he never had to look back in his way of progressing.
What about his Leadership? Surely he was a good leader and hard worker. There is no question about his creativity and leadership capabilities. But he was never a good person when faced legal questioning. There were many companies to compete with Microsoft. But the money power and the monopoly helped Bill to overcome the crisis. But in the field of internet technology, Bill Gates was too much late to make a mark by his standards. By then a company named Netscape had made its market like a giant and that was a challenge to Microsoft and Bill Gates. Soon Microsoft introduced the new Windows 95 operating system with free bundled internet explorer for browsing. Many of us thought that Microsoft had won the competition but that was not true because they won by cheating. By giving internet explorer browser free with operating system, Bill Gates ensured that the products of Netscape will not see light anymore. And that was a sheer move by Gates which made Netscape suffers. And hence Netscape was out of the map. Bill used his money power and monopoly to overcome the crisis named Netscape. But he never confessed that he had committed the crime and he kept on doing it with all those small companies and ideas which stood in his way to success.
Certainly the last decade belongs to Microsoft and Bill Gates. But the present decade has proved the presence of a new trend named as Google. In the internet field, Bill never was able to make a mark and he is a lot late. Google has gone very forward a huge distance a major share of the internet market is now with Google. Google opens its wide range with their search engine and by the time passed Google made each and every application free of cost online which ultimately was a setback for Microsoft products. Products like MS Office and other office automation packages faced a major setback by the introduction of Google online application such as Google Docs. In other words we can say that Google is now using the same kind of weapon which was used by Microsoft a long time ago. But Google makes it more transparent with the participation of common people who enjoys all these facilities. The major share of the market especially in the field of advertisement has been captured by the Google and the Microsoft and Bill Gates stood as spectators. Even though, Bill Gates was not ready to accept the defeat and he tried his best. But now after a long time span, he seems too had accepted the defeat and thus he recently decided to step down as the active chairman of Microsoft. In the views of his critics, he always had a goal to achieve which he often sets on his mind and he almost did succeed in each and every task put in front of him. The same way he had to face the Google which proved a bit big task for him and seems to have accepted the failure. Now he ran out of options and decided to set a new goal to achieve that is to win a Nobel price for peace. For his new venture he created the Bill Gates & Melinda Foundation for charity and its main aim is to eradicate malaria from the face of the earth. Well we all know that he is good entrepreneur and leader, but we are unaware of the fact that there is a good person and kind heart inside the geek who changed the entire it scenario. Well let us wish him all the best for his new venture.
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