AUDIO 1 – intermediate – Bill Gates

AUDIO 1 – intermediate – Bill Gates

Bill Gates – Intermediate level

“We want to put a computer on every desk and in every home". These were the

famous words that Bill Gates said at a business presentation in the 1970s.

And it was this vision that turned a simple idea into the Microsoft Corporation. In

2008 the company employed 90,000 people and had revenues of over $60 billion.

How did Bill Gates do it?

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In the 1980s, when IBM was concentrating on hardware, Microsoft focused on

software, and developed the Windows operating system. Microsoft gained control

of the market by installing the operating system on the majority of new

computers.

Next Bill Gates saw an opportunity in the Internet sector. Microsoft put its

Explorer system in the Windows software package for free.

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A criticism of Microsoft is that it completely dominates every market it enters by using

aggressive business tactics, and the company has been fined millions of dollars.

However, it is not the number one company on the Internet. Its main rival Google is a

lot bigger.

AUDIO 2 – intermediate – Bill Gates

Love him or hate him, Bill Gates is an extremely successful business entrepreneur.

He retired from the Microsoft management in 2008 and now works full-time at his

charity, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Bill Gates is one of the richest people in the world, but that is not important to him.

With a lot of money comes a lot of responsibility, he believes.

“I have over $100 billion and that’s far too much,” he said. “I could spend 3 million

dollars a day, every day, for the next 100 years and still have too much money.”

In 2000, he and his wife founded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a charity

organization, which provides money for AIDS prevention, and other diseases that

affect poor people in the world.

The foundation has given over $28 billion in aid.

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