Bill Gates is an American computer scientist and businessman who co-founded Microsoft. He dropped out of Harvard University to start Microsoft with his friend Paul Allen. In 1975, they founded Microsoft and developed the popular MS-DOS operating system. By 1989, Microsoft's Windows operating system had become very popular, giving the company a dominant position in the PC market. Gates retired from day-to-day operations at Microsoft in 2000 but remains one of the richest people in the world. He now focuses on philanthropic work through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Bill Gates is an American computer scientist and businessman who co-founded Microsoft. He dropped out of Harvard University to start Microsoft with his friend Paul Allen. In 1975, they founded Microsoft and developed the popular MS-DOS operating system. By 1989, Microsoft's Windows operating system had become very popular, giving the company a dominant position in the PC market. Gates retired from day-to-day operations at Microsoft in 2000 but remains one of the richest people in the world. He now focuses on philanthropic work through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Bill Gates is an American computer scientist and businessman who co-founded Microsoft. He dropped out of Harvard University to start Microsoft with his friend Paul Allen. In 1975, they founded Microsoft and developed the popular MS-DOS operating system. By 1989, Microsoft's Windows operating system had become very popular, giving the company a dominant position in the PC market. Gates retired from day-to-day operations at Microsoft in 2000 but remains one of the richest people in the world. He now focuses on philanthropic work through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Bill Gates is an American computer scientist and businessman who co-founded Microsoft. He dropped out of Harvard University to start Microsoft with his friend Paul Allen. In 1975, they founded Microsoft and developed the popular MS-DOS operating system. By 1989, Microsoft's Windows operating system had become very popular, giving the company a dominant position in the PC market. Gates retired from day-to-day operations at Microsoft in 2000 but remains one of the richest people in the world. He now focuses on philanthropic work through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
American computer scientist and buisinessman, founder of Microsoft. The fortune of this programmer, who did not finish his
studies and was already a multimillionaire at the age of 31, came from the success of his operatings systems.
In November 1985, Microsoft launched Windows.
By 1989, the popularity of Windows gave Microsoft a certain "army" of PC operating systems.
Since then Microsoft has had some problems because its business is based on buying smaller
companies to cover more areas of business.
Bill retired from the day-to-day operations of Microsoft in 2000, handing over the CEO position to
his college friend Steve Ballmer, who had been with the company since 1980.
Bill Gates was born into a wealthy
family on 28 October 1955 in Seattle,
Washington. That provided him with an
education at elite institutions such as
Lakeside School (1967-73) and Harvard
Bill Gates sold to Cary, the head of IBM, an operating University (1973-77). system that Microsoft had not developed yet. So he bought
the QDOS operating system for $50,000, then he modified
and renamed it MS-DOS and sold it for $50,000, for the
same price he bought the original version.
IBM wanted to buy the code for the system but Bill managed
to get the multinational to pay him for all the licenses he
At Lakeside School he met Paul Allen, who was two had sold.
years his elder. The two became friends fastly and
shared his enthusiasm for computers. In 1970, at the
age of fifteen, Bill Gates went into the computer
business with Paul. They developed a computer
programme that monitored traffic patterns in Seattle,
Microsoft adapted the BASIC software into different which earned them their first big profit: twenty formats for other computer companies, and at the end thousand dollars. of 1978, the operations of the company, which by then
had twenty-five young employees, were moved to East
Seattle. With his innovative vision for software
development, and at just twenty-three years of age, he
led Microsoft to earn two and a half million dollars in
1978.
In the summer of 1974, Gates went to work with his
friend at Honeywell, and during this time, he
showed him an electronics magazine where there
was an article about the Altair 8800 minicomputer,
made by a small company called Micro
Bill did not get along well with the president of Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS). The MITS and they often quarrelled. Roberts two contacted the company, which was working considered him hateful. In 1977, Roberts sold MITS on a BASIC software program, and wanted to The company's president, Ed Roberts, to another computer company and returned to his know if MITS would be interested in developing asked the boys for a demonstration and native country to become a country doctor. Gates such software for the Altair. they accepted the challenge; they spent and Allen continued on their own and had to sue
the next two months making the the new owner of MITS to retain the rights to the
software in a Harvard University BASIC software they had developed.
computer lab.
In 1975, they founded "Micro-Soft", a
name that comes from the terms "micro-
computer" and "software". Bill was in his
135 millons of dollars
early twenties..
"The computer was born to solve problems that didn't exist before". HIS HOUSE
"Success is a terrible teacher. It seduces intelligent people into thinking they
can't lose". "It's good to celebrate success, but it's more important to pay attention to the lessons of failure".
personal life On 1 January 1994, Melinda and Bill were married in Hawaii.
personal data In 1996, the first child of the family was born, Jennifer.
In 2000, the couple combined several of their foundations to create the larger Bill and Melinda Gates One of the richest people in the world. Foundation, which has already donated more than $28 billion to charitable causes. Companies: Microsoft Corporation, Berkshire Hathaway, In early 2014, Bill told Univisión that he wants to donate most of his money because it "belongs to TerraPower... society". Parents: William H. Gates, Sr. and Mary Maxwell In 2006 he and his wife were awarded the Order of the Aztec Eagle for their work in the areas of health Children: Phoebe Adele, Rory John y Jennifer Katharine and education. Name: William Henry Gates III In 2019, the Netflix platform released a documentary that tries to investigate how the mind of the genius Height: 1.77 m Bill Gates works.
