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William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington) is the founder, chairman, former chief software architect, and former CEO of Microsoft. Forbes magazine's The World's Billionaires list has ranked him as the richest person on earth for the last thirteen consecutive years. According to the Forbes 2006 magazine, Bill Gates's current net worth is approximately $53 billion. When family wealth is considered, his family ranks second behind the Walton family. Gates is the first one to reach the richest peak from technology world.

Some people feel strongly that Bill Gates is a fraud. That feeling is based on the belief that although he became recognized from the introduction and marketing of D.O.S. (Disk Operating System) he was not the inventor. Regardless if these rumors are true or not most people agree that Bill Gates deserves credit for his marketing and business savy. Indeed he is often credited for creating an entire industry/profession that uses its customer base to trouble shoot and improve the software product and then sell that improvement/changes back to consumer that helped develop it. Before this revamping took place software was freely available for customer distribution and hardware was the income source.

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