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Another Gates - Big Billy 2.0
Despite the fact that the first person from Microsoft has long been the most intelligent and charming, Steve Ballmer, millions of ordinary people, the software giant is primarily associated with the name of its founder - Bill Gates.
The most advanced of them were quite surprised when on October 22 last year, Mr. Gates has not only delivered a solemn speech at the launch of Windows 7 operating system, but do not even attended the event. Although it would seem, to this day the release of a product which is a landmark not only for Microsoft, but for millions of PC users around the world.
So, yesterday, Bill Gates published his second annual letter, written on behalf of the co-chairman of the world's largest charitable foundation The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - that way is now called post the former head of Microsoft. And this message explains its absence from the presentation of the "Seven" entirely. The new Bill there is really nothing to do.
As far as can be understood from the letter (hint - read between the lines), Bill Gates sample of 2010 feels not a billionaire, not a businessman, not a programmer, and a philanthropist to the bone. In other words, Bill Gates 1.0, laid at the time the foundation created by Microsoft and Windows, has long samoobnovilsya to the second version. And information technology in pure interest him almost last.
Of course, they can be used as a tool for some projects included in the field of charity fund (for example, one chapter is devoted to the prospects of writing online database of educational materials and interactive learning). But in today's world, there are many serious problems for which solutions are far from necessary IT tools. According to Gates, a significant portion of donations fund spending on health care (primarily - for the development of vaccines against HIV and malaria), and development of agriculture. Of course, information technology - is great, but the inhabitants of many regions of the world need is not only and not so much in them as in the chance to survive. Despite hunger and epidemics. The fight against these plagues Gates said his life's work.
In the first paragraph of the letter he says that in 2009, the year he was able to meet with the mass of people - from teachers from North Carolina, doctors continue fighting polio in India and ending with Kenyan farmers. Obviously, Gates is constantly looking for new challenges for his foundation - and where to find them, but in dealing with people?
If the main task of Gates 1.0 was to meet the interests of shareholders and customers, the Gates 2.0 come to grips with those who under no circumstances can not be a shareholder or Microsoft, or even the owner of a PC with the unpretentious licensed Windows. Can one and the same person to play such different roles in a single life? As you can see, it is. And note: Bill Gates managed to shift far from the tender age. But fans poobvinyat Microsoft founder in all glitches world's most popular operating system, Banach Xbox 360 and other product-related corporation "catastrophe" is to forget about their bad habit: in front of us have long been just another man - a man who likes to pose for photographers dripping something useful in the mouth of the Nigerian little one looks at fondly of her family.
And it is not excluded that in the middle of the XXI century encyclopedias Bill Gates will mean not as a "computer genius", but, say, as a "philanthropist, who took direct part in the creation of a vaccine against malaria." Which title is more honorable? Answer this question for yourself. Well, we recall that in 1994 husbands Gates charitable foundation donated to the needs of a variety of innovative projects in the field of science and technology more than 34 billion dollars (of which accounted for more than 23 grants). Presumably, this is just the beginning - in fact, according to Bill Gates, "the needs of the poor are more than he can pay the whole world."
By the way, yesterday it was announced that Larry Page and Sergey Brin in the next five years are going to cease to control the corporation Google. Who knows - perhaps now these talented and billionaires are under self-renewal ... Prior to version 2.0. And in a few years they will devote all their time to charitable fund
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The most advanced of them were quite surprised when on October 22 last year, Mr. Gates has not only delivered a solemn speech at the launch of Windows 7 operating system, but do not even attended the event. Although it would seem, to this day the release of a product which is a landmark not only for Microsoft, but for millions of PC users around the world.
So, yesterday, Bill Gates published his second annual letter, written on behalf of the co-chairman of the world's largest charitable foundation The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - that way is now called post the former head of Microsoft. And this message explains its absence from the presentation of the "Seven" entirely. The new Bill there is really nothing to do.
As far as can be understood from the letter (hint - read between the lines), Bill Gates sample of 2010 feels not a billionaire, not a businessman, not a programmer, and a philanthropist to the bone. In other words, Bill Gates 1.0, laid at the time the foundation created by Microsoft and Windows, has long samoobnovilsya to the second version. And information technology in pure interest him almost last.
Of course, they can be used as a tool for some projects included in the field of charity fund (for example, one chapter is devoted to the prospects of writing online database of educational materials and interactive learning). But in today's world, there are many serious problems for which solutions are far from necessary IT tools. According to Gates, a significant portion of donations fund spending on health care (primarily - for the development of vaccines against HIV and malaria), and development of agriculture. Of course, information technology - is great, but the inhabitants of many regions of the world need is not only and not so much in them as in the chance to survive. Despite hunger and epidemics. The fight against these plagues Gates said his life's work.
In the first paragraph of the letter he says that in 2009, the year he was able to meet with the mass of people - from teachers from North Carolina, doctors continue fighting polio in India and ending with Kenyan farmers. Obviously, Gates is constantly looking for new challenges for his foundation - and where to find them, but in dealing with people?
If the main task of Gates 1.0 was to meet the interests of shareholders and customers, the Gates 2.0 come to grips with those who under no circumstances can not be a shareholder or Microsoft, or even the owner of a PC with the unpretentious licensed Windows. Can one and the same person to play such different roles in a single life? As you can see, it is. And note: Bill Gates managed to shift far from the tender age. But fans poobvinyat Microsoft founder in all glitches world's most popular operating system, Banach Xbox 360 and other product-related corporation "catastrophe" is to forget about their bad habit: in front of us have long been just another man - a man who likes to pose for photographers dripping something useful in the mouth of the Nigerian little one looks at fondly of her family.
And it is not excluded that in the middle of the XXI century encyclopedias Bill Gates will mean not as a "computer genius", but, say, as a "philanthropist, who took direct part in the creation of a vaccine against malaria." Which title is more honorable? Answer this question for yourself. Well, we recall that in 1994 husbands Gates charitable foundation donated to the needs of a variety of innovative projects in the field of science and technology more than 34 billion dollars (of which accounted for more than 23 grants). Presumably, this is just the beginning - in fact, according to Bill Gates, "the needs of the poor are more than he can pay the whole world."
By the way, yesterday it was announced that Larry Page and Sergey Brin in the next five years are going to cease to control the corporation Google. Who knows - perhaps now these talented and billionaires are under self-renewal ... Prior to version 2.0. And in a few years they will devote all their time to charitable fund
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