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BG is the chairman of Microsoft, the world-wide leader in software.

Born in 1955, he grew up in Seattle with his 2 sisters.

Their father worked as a lawyer.

He went to an elementary school in Seattle and then went on to the well-known Lakeside School.

There, he discovered his interest in software and began programming computers at the age of 13.

In 1973 he went to Harvard University.

While at Harvard, he developed a new type of programming language called BASIC.

He left Harvard before the end of his course to give his time totally to Microsoft, which was the name he had given to the company he had started in 1975 with his friend Paul Allen.

In 1999 he wrote Business @ Speed of Though.

This was the first book he wrote and it shows how computer technology can solve business problem in new ways.

He and his wife Melinda, run an organization called the B & M Foundation.

The aim of this organization is to provide money in areas of global health and education.

One project provides computers and internet access to libraries in poor areas of the United States and Canada.