The 2010 Bower Award for Business Leadership presented to William H. Gates III, Microsoft Corporation

摘要

There is no doubt that Bill Gates is a successful businessman-but he is much more than that. A modern icon of the technologist, as well as an entrepreneur, Gates has had, through his company Microsoft, more impact on personal computing than perhaps any other person. His software not only powers the bulk of personal computers-nearly every desktop computer has at least one Microsoft product on it. Microsoft's impact has now moved on to smart phones, electronic hand-held devices and numerous multimedia systems.