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William Henry Gates

William Henry Gates III , popularly known as Bill Gates , is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation . He is one of the wealthiest men in the United States and his influence is felt in the computer and information highway industry ( Bill Gates

The Life of Bill Gates

Bill Gates was born on October 28 . 1955 in Seattle , Washington to William Henry Sr , and Mary Maxwell . His father is a well-known Seattle attorney and his mother was formerly a school

teacher . While his father wanted him to follow in his footsteps as a lawyer , Bill Gates had other things in mind ( Bill Gates

Early on in his life , Bill developed an inclination towards computer science and studied computers when he was in Grade 7 at Seattle 's Lakeside School . The school was by his parents thinking that it would challenge his intellect and insatiable curiosity . Here he got to know Paul Allen , a classmate with the same inclination towards technology . Eventually , the two became business partners ( Bill Gates

Inclination to Computer

Bill Gates , Paul Allen , and other students persuaded a local computer firm to provide them with free access to a PDP-10 , a minicomputer manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation . Bill Gates and company tried to fix the errors in the system in exchange for the free computer access . During his vacant time , Bill Gates tried to learn programming languages such as BASIC , Fortran , and LISP ( Bill Gates

The Birth of Microsoft

In 1975 , as a student at Harvard University , he and Paul Allen developed a variation of BASIC designed for the Altair 8800 , the first personal computer . They licensed it with Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry System (MITS , and established Microsoft . He dropped out of Harvard in to work full time in Microsoft . In 1980 , Microsoft forged a deal with International Business Machines (IBM ) to provide the operating system for IBM 's line of personal computers . As part of the package , Microsoft obtained the right to license the OS to other companies ( Bill Gates

In the 1990s , Bill Gates became more involved in philanthropic work Together with his wife , they put up the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation which immediately made its way up as the biggest foundation in the world . He is also the author of The Road Ahead in 1995 and Business the Speed of Thought in 1999 . The former discussed his visions of the role of technology in society while the latter provides an explanation of the role of technology in the operation of a business ( Bill Gates

Success and Failures

His status as one of the richest man in the world did not come easy for Bill Gates . While Microsoft Corporation will go down as his most successful venture , his business life is not all success because he experienced several failures as well ( Bill Gates Top Ten Hits

The Auto PC , which was introduced in 1998 , was stopped after three years . It was supposed to usher in a...