Biography of Bill gates.
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| Biography of Bill gates |
Bill gates he is a co-founder of Microsoft he was born on October 28th 1955 in Seattle Washington United States his father's name was William Henry Gates senior and mother's name was Mary Maxwell Gates his father was a prominent lawyer he studied at the lakeside school where he developed an interest in computing he was just 13 when he wrote his first software program on the school's computer and by the time he was in high school he along with some of his friends had computerized their school's payroll system his future business collaborator Paul Allen was a senior at Lakeside at the age of 17 gates teamed up with Allen to form a venture called trafó data to make traffic counters based on the Intel 8008 processor he graduated from high school in 1973 he was a National Merit Scholar and scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT he enrolled at Harvard College later the same year as a college student he spent a lot of time on the computers though he was not much interested in studying other subjects his friend Allen suggested that they'll drop out of college to start a business Bill Gates and Paul Allen collaborated to found Microsoft in 1975 in the beginning they adapted basic a popular programming language for use on microcomputers it proved to be a success and they continued to develop programming language software for various systems in 1980 the duo was approached by international business machine IBM with a proposal that Microsoft write the basic interpreter for IBM's upcoming personal computer the IBM PC Microsoft created the PC DOS operating system which they delivered to IBM in exchange for a one-time fee of $50,000 Microsoft launched its first retail version of Microsoft Windows on November 20th 1985 as a graphical operating system shell for ms-dos in August of the following year the company's struck a deal with IBM to develop a separate operating system called os/2 over the following years Windows came to dominate the world's personal computer market acquiring over 90% market share the company saw phenomenal financial success and being the company's largest individual shareholder Bill Gates amassed of great fortune Microsoft introduced Microsoft Office in 1989 the package integrated several applications like Microsoft Word and Excel into one system that was compatible with all Microsoft products the success of MS Office gave Microsoft a virtual monopoly on operating systems for PCs Bill Gates met Melinda French a young woman working at Microsoft in 1989 in 1990 Microsoft released its first version of Windows in 1995 Windows 95 was released setting new standards and features for operating systems this version of Windows has been the backbone of all future releases from Windows 2000 to the latest XP and Vista Windows CE operating system platform and the Microsoft Network were among the innovative solutions developed during this time gates married Melinda French on a golf course on the Hawaiian island of Lanai on January 1st 1994 he was 38 and she was 29 they have three children in January 2000 gates stepped down as chief executive officer of Microsoft though he retained his position as chairman he created the new position of chief Software Architect for himself over the next few years he gradually transferred his duties to others at Microsoft and started spending more time in philanthropic works he stepped down as chairman of Microsoft in February 2014 and currently serves as technology adviser to support CEO Satya Nadella in 2015 gates along with his wife Melinda received the Padma Bhushan India's third highest civilian award for their social work in the country in 2016 President Barack Obama honored Gates and his wife Melinda with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for their philanthropic efforts success is a lousy teacher it seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose said Bill Gates.
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