Tuesday, August 24, 2010

HISTORY OF BILL GATES



Bill Gate was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington, As William Henry Gates to late mother, Mary Gates, who was a school teacher, University of Washington regent, and chairwoman of United Way International.

Bill Gates is the man who introduced the world to Microsoft in the year 1976, which is now one of the world’s best known entrepreneurs of the world.

EARLY LIFE :

Bill Gates was very interested in software and begin computer programming at the early age of thirteen, Then Bill Gate became a student at Harvard University in 1973, where he meet Steve Ballmer who is now the CEO of Microsoft, During his undergraduation Bill Gate wrote a version of the programming language BASIC for the MITS Altair Microcomputers.
In the early age Bill Gate & Paul Allen used to ran a small company called Traf-O-Data & sold the computer that could count cities traffic.

FOUNDATION OF MICROSOFT :

Bill Gate founded Microsoft in the year 1976, when he formed a contract with MITTS (MICRO Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) to develop an basic operation system for their new microcomputer. Gates was also involved in several activities of Microsoft’s business such as packing and sending off orders.

In 1980, IBM approached Microsoft for a new BASIC operating system for its new computers, In 1980s IBM was the leading PC Manufacturer.

GATES & WINDOW :

In 1990, Microsoft released its first version of Windows, it soon became a best seller, Then in 1995,

Windows 95 was released, windows 95 was the backbone of all feature released from Windows 2000 to XP and latest Windows Vista.

BILL GATES PHILANTHROPIST :








In 1992, Bill Gates married to Malinda French, They have 3 Children’s Jennifer (1996), Rory (1999), Phoebe (2002), Bill Gates and his wife Melinda formed the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with more then $28.8 billion to support philanthropic health & learning and also improved the standards of Public Schools Education in US. In 2008 Gates announced that he would work full time on his Philanthropic Interest.

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