Decisive

     Bill Gates is the founder of Microsoft Corporation. According to the survey done in 1997, it shows that almost 40% of people own computers and 80% of them light up with the flying window on the computer screen, which the signature of Microsoft’s Windows operating system is displayed. Today, he founded the largest software corporation and become the richest person in the world.

            Bill Gates is the key person in the Microsoft Corporation. He plays a decisive role in Microsoft Corporation and also heading the company’s direction. He makes most of the strategies and highlights the things that are important. Besides, Bill Gates also able to make decisions quickly when emergency situation is faced by Microsoft Corporation. Much of his success can be attributed to his quick response of decision making process.

In the early of 1984, VisiCorp developed a mouse-driven computer system, which graphic interface is used to display image on the screen. This is the major challenge that faced by Bill Gates as Microsoft Corporation only develop text and keyboard driven MS-DOS system, where all the text formatting displayed on screen as code and users do not know what actually will be printed. In this situation, Bill Gates made an important decision. He innovated on Microsoft’s products and produced a new Microsoft operating system that can use graphic interface, which is known as “Windows”. As a result, the decision that made by Bill Gates causing Microsoft Corporation reported USD140 million in revenue, including USD46.6 million from oversea users in the same year.

           Today, although he give Steve Blamer control of the CEO position, Bill Gates still remains one of the key person in the most important matters that company encounters.