Comparing the Incomparable!!

While comparing between two people, first thing is we need to check certain criteria and qualities that both should fulfill with equal quotient. It is about a question that circulating in the Facebook, first of all, one should know how to ask a question before knowing the answer. Put a question is no mater of joke. Some of those teenagers and obviously from Kolkata, mostly with zero quotient of general knowledge and may be yet not out of the school, let me come to the question that popped to me was asked by someone who is a friend of my student and it was circulating in Facebook - who is more intelligent. Is it Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates. It seems some nut who asked the question and there were a few who voted for Mark Zuckerberg. Strange, these peoples might have lost their sanity. Comparing between moonlight to a candle light. I am here going to put some events and the achievements of both and also will  peep into their professional life. Let me start with the younger fellow :

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known for creating the social networking site Facebook. It was co-founded as a private company in 2004 by Zuckerberg and classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while they were students at Harvard University.

Harvard students Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra accused Zuckerberg of intentionally making them believe he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com (later called ConnectU). They filed a lawsuit in 2004 but it was dismissed on a technicality on March 28, 2007. It was refiled soon thereafter in federal court in Boston. Facebook counter sued in regards to Social Butterfly, a project put out by The Winklevoss Chang Group, an alleged partnership between ConnectU and i2hub. On June 25, 2008, the case settled and Facebook agreed to transfer over 1.2 million common shares and pay $20 million in cash.

As we know some of his life from Movie "Social Networking". Now, apart from Facebook, we are waiting something else from him. Philanthropy, issue he promised a lot but yet to commit.

Bill Gates

William Henry Gates (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, author and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen.  During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect.

Basic

In 1975,  Gates he written an interpreter for a programming language known as  BASIC for the platform.

DOS

Microsoft delivered it to IBM as PC-DOS,  and the sales of MS-DOS made Microsoft a major player in the industry

OS/2

In August, 19985, Microsoft company struck a deal with IBM to develop a separate operating system called OS/2. Although the two companies successfully developed the first version of the new system, mounting creative differences undermined the partnership.

Windows

Microsoft launched its first retail version of Microsoft Windows on November 20, 1985, But it was not the Os we are using today.

Windows OS

Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented graphical user interface-based operating system. It was released on August 24, 1995 by Microsoft, and was a significant and then there were many versions of it we are using as our working platform.

Applications and Other Software

Microsoft-Office, a package without it day-to-day work would have been not the same. The Visual studio and .Net are the other software which Microsoft given us and waiting for many more.

Philanthropy

Gates began to appreciate the expectations others had of him when public opinion mounted suggesting that he could give more of his wealth to charity. 1994 sold some of his Microsoft stock to create the William H. Gates Foundation. In 2000, Gates and his wife combined three family foundations into one to create the charitable Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is the largest transparently operated charitable foundation in the world. The foundation allows benefactors access to information regarding how its money is being spent. The generosity and extensive philanthropy of David Rockefeller has been credited as a major influence. As of 2007, Bill and Melinda Gates were the second-most generous philanthropists in America, having given over $28 billion to charity

A social Networking site may be new for us, but it was there since long. So, Mark  Zuckerberg not created an extra-ordinary thing. He was lucky so he got away with it, some other will come up  with another such new sites and certainly these nuts will vote for that. Anyhow  intellectual Netizens still prefer Twitter, a no nonsense social networking site.

I started with 8088 processor and then he gave us a Micro-computer with BASIC. Bill Gates took us to a new level when he provided two tiny feet to the PC  with  PC-DOS, We started with COBOL, PASCAL, FORTRAN under one platform along with WordPerfect, WordStar and Lotus application package. Then it was Windows 1 to 3.1, where first time we exposed to the world of colour. He added wings to the PC so it can fly with WINDOWS OS like 95, 98, 2000, ME, VISTA, XP and Win-7. He provided a electronic pen in every PC user’s hand with MS-Office package.

We are sitting on one of those wings provided by Gates and exploring the nets along with Facebook, so where are the comparison.

!!!So, comparing above two means only expose your stupidity!!!