Monday 22 September 2008

Microsoft


Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen; Bill gates in the worlds 3rd richest person and Paul Allen is the 42nd (the 1st being Warren Buffett). Paul Allen is estimated to be worth $16 billion, and Bill Gates is worth $59 billion. Bill Gates is the Chairman of Microsoft, his previous jobs in Microsoft have been CEO and Chief Software Architect.

Microsoft was first found in 1975, Allen left the company in the 1983. It has started as a small business based on a single creative software program that he had helped to develop, his real genius was his business Acumen; a non-profit global business enterprise fund that uses capitalist approaches to solve the problems of global poverty.

The first independent version of Microsoft Windows, version 1.0, released on 20 November 1985, it lacked a degree of functionality and achieved little popularity. It was originally going to be called Interface Manager, but Rowland Hanson, the head of marketing at Microsoft, convinced the company that the name Windows would be more appealing to consumers.

Microsoft Windows version 2 came out on 9 December 1987, and proved slightly more popular than its previous. Much of the popularity for Windows 2.0 came by way of its inclusion as a "run-time version" with Microsoft's new graphical applications,Excel and Word for Windows.

Microsoft windows 3.0 was a success. After that IBM became partners with Microsoft as well as Apple already being part of Microsoft.

Their latest programme has been Vista which was introduced in 2006.


Wednesday 10 September 2008

Aidan Barclay

The son of Sir David Barclay; Adian Barclay. He came 33rd in this years Guardian Media 100, for the first time ever beating his father and uncle as well.
He is now the Telegraph Media Group chairman.
Before taking control of the Telegraph group he was chairman of the Barclays' Press Holdings Group, and in 2000 made an abortive £75m for bid for the Exress group, then owned by Lord Hollick.
Adian Barclay entered the business market in the 1980s.
he is the chairman of The Ritz Hotel.

First property passed on to Adian was the Barclays' Ellerman Investments vehicle; which adain now runs.

Sir David Barclay and Sir Frederick Barclay are British businessmen. The twin brothers are well known for owning businesses in media, retail and property markets. Their Press Holdings company owns The Business and The Spectator magazine.