Mining India's talent.Bill Gates (person) Bill Gates - William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. , chairman of Microsoft (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, www.microsoft.com) The most successful and influential software company. Microsoft's software and Intel's hardware pioneered the PC and revolutionized the computer industry. , is launching a contest this month to identify promising software students in India. The top prize is a one year internship internship /in·tern·ship/ (in´tern-ship) the position or term of service of an intern in a hospital. internship, n the course work or practicum conducted in a professional dental clinic. with Gates's technical team at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash. The eight-month-long talent search--called "Code4 Bill"--coincides with another contest in India: the race between increasingly popular low-cost "open source" software and proprietary software like Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. . Companies like Microsoft worry that they will lose India's top software talent to the open-source movement. Gates, who will invest $1.7 billion in India over the next four years, says the contest will showcase the high quality of work being done in that country. Twenty finalists will receive internships with Microsoft India before a final winner is selected to join Gates's U.S. team. |
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