The Life of Bill Gates The Early Years

The Life of Bill Gates

The Early Years n William Henry Gates III n Born October 28, 1955 in Seattle Washington n Attended a public elementary school and excelled above all expectation

The Early Years n Enrolled into the prestigious and private Lakeside School at age 13. Here he met Paul Allen n Gates and his friends became obsessed with computer time, forming Lakeside Programmers Group

The Early Years n The group was suspended from the computer room for several weeks due to hacking n Computer Center Corporation, C-Cubed, hired the boys to find bugs in their system n C-Cubed goes out of business, forcing the group to look elsewhere for computer time

The Early Years n Information Services Inc. hired the group to create a payroll for their company in exchange for unlimited computer time n Due to their business deal the Lakeside Programmers Group had to become a legal business

The Early Years n As The Lakeside Programmers Group, Gates and his friends created a scheduling system for the Lakeside School when they graduated n The group then became Traf-O-Data, creating a program to measure traffic flow for the Washington States Road Department

The Early Years n Bill Gates enrolled at Harvard in 1973 for prelaw because he was unsure of what he wanted to do n One day when Paul Allen was visiting Gates at Harvard he bought an issue of Popular Electronics that would change their lives forever

The Early Years n This issue featured the first ever microcomputer: MITS’ (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) Altair 8800 n Gates called MITS and told them that he and Allen had written a BASIC for their new computer n This was in fact, untrue, but MITS wanted to see their code

The Early Years n Gates and Allen worked for eight weeks on the code n When it was finally finished, Allen brought it to MITS’ headquarters in Albuquerque, New Mexico n The code worked perfectly, and so Microsoft was born

The beginning of Microsoft Micro-Soft is founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen n The original name was Micro-Soft which was an abbreviation for microcomputer software n The name changed to Microsoft without the hyphen soon after the founding of the company n Gates dropped out of Harvard during his junior in order to devote energy to Microsoft n

The beginning of Microsoft n Throughout his career in computer software Bill Gates has fought aggressively to eliminate software piracy

The beginning of Microsoft n On November 1, 1978 the Microsoft went international and opened a sales office in Japan

The beginning of Microsoft n n n Microsoft develops the MS-DOS puts Microsoft on the map MS-DOS is licensed to IBM

The beginning of Microsoft n n Microsoft develops Windows A version of the GUI Alternative to DOS Not originally popular

Microsoft Grows n In 1991 Microsoft Windows 3. 0 is introduced n n sells over 10 million copies Microsoft expands overseas

Microsoft Grows In 1992 Windows 3. 1 is introduced n Gates receives the National Medal of Technology for Technological Achievement n Microsoft Windows for Workgroups wins an award for technical excellence from PC Magazine n

Microsoft Grows n Other Operating Systems Windows NT n Windows 95 n Windows 98 n Windows 2000 n Windows ME n Windows XP n

Microsoft Today July 2008, Gates will step down as Chief Software Architect n He still remains the Chairman n Gates wants to spend more time with family and charitable events n

Personal Life Married in 1994, on an island in Hawaii n Three children n Estate worth $62, 514, 400 n

Personal Life n Bill Gates and his criminal record

Charity n n Philanthropist Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation n Global Health Program Global Development Program United States Program