BILL GATES born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle,Washington He is the son of William H. Gates (born1925) and Mary Maxwell Gates born on(1929). His father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother She was an athletic, outgoing student at the University of Washington, actively involved in student affairs and leadership,he grew up with two sisters: Kristianne(elder), and Libby(younger). bill grew up in a competitive medium family which encouraged competition; one of family visitors reported that "there was always a reward for winning and there was always a penalty for losing".The bill family gives importance to the law profession and his parents want him to become a lawyer. Regarding her religion bill and his family regularly attended a church of the Congregational Christian Churches, a Protestant Reformed denomination.
Bill joined Lakeside School(Seattle,Washington) at the age of 13 .and her the Gates story start. He began to show an interest in computer programming and what computer could do ? Specifically when a Seattle computer company offered to provide computer time for the students, and The Mother's Club used proceeds from the school's rummage sale to purchase a teletype terminal for students to use.
Gates entranced with terminal and he spent many hours working on it finally He wrote a tic-tac-toe program in BASIC computer language that allowed users to play against the computer.
Bill will meat PAUL ALLEN, Allen was more reserved and shy, he is very different compared with Bill. but, The two became fast friends, bonding on their common enthusiasm over computers, both of them spend her free time on creating new programs and get more experience.They always quarreled about who worked on the school computer, During this friendship time, Gates developed a payroll program for the computer company the boys hacked into, and a scheduling program for the school.The two have a long friendship, during which they worked on several projects such as traf-o-data He was working on reading the raw data from roadway traffic counters and create reports for traffic engineers, they get and $20,000 for their efforts. At that time Bill and Allen wanted to start their company, but Bill's parents confirmed that he should finish school and go on to college where they hoped he would work to become a lawyer
in 1973 with score of 1590 out of 1600 on the Scholastic Aptitude Tests, Bill graduated from Lakeside School, He enrolled at Harvard University in the fall to study a law, but he left Harvard after two years Because of his lack of commitment to the course because he spent most of his time in the computer lab
In the summer of 1974, After a communicated with PAUL ALLEN again, joined him at Honeywell
Allen read an article on (Popular Electronics magazine featuring) about the Altair 8800 mini-computer kit,kit, the two liked the idea, especially that this computer could make toward personal computing, Gates and Allen contacted the Altair company (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems -MITS), And they told them that they can create a BASIC software program that would run the Altair computer after a period, the boys received a letter from Ed Roberts MITS president asked for demonstrates, In the next two months Both competed in writing the software in Harvard's computer lab, when they finished Allen travel to Albuquerque, New Mexico (MITS Company Headquarters), To show them their software. finally Allen was hired at MITS and Gates soon left Harvard to work with him.
On April 4, 1975, the two friends will create a company called Microsoft, a mixture of "microcomputer" and "software".
But ,he has trouble marketing of Microsoft specifically when some computer hobbyist using it without paying for him because it's easy to distribute
1978-Gates was only 23.and he becomes the president of Microsoft, which grossed $2.5 million
bill exploited the chance of the development which know the computer industry at that time, specifically with companies like Apple, Intel, and IBM. To develop the merits of Microsoft Software applications
1981-High revenues of the Microdoft from 4Milion $ to 16Milion $
1981-1983 Microsoft gained international fame ,with offices in Great Britain and Japan, and with 30 % percent of the world's computers running on its software.in the same year allen left the company because of his sick
In 1985 Microsoft launched Windows
In 1987 The company's shares rose from 21$ per share to 90,75$ per shares, Bill Gates became a billionaire
by the time. Microsoft gained a reputation as a ruthless company, and relied on new ways to market their programs. Bill himself oversaw the production of all new applications and programs, that's what show that he hardly worked.AT his grew-up Microsoft was the target of software piracy, but BILL GATES always saved the situation.
BILL GATES marriage
Gates married Melinda French(January 1, 1994; he was 38 and she was 29) in a private ceremony held in , Hawaii
Melinda French was General Manager of Information Products
Melinda and Bill Gates have three children: daughters, Jennifer Katharine Gates (1996) and Phoebe Adele Gates ( 2002), and son Rory John Gates (1999)
After growing older he no longer works in the company always ,His last full day at Microsoft was June 27, 2008
Dear readers, we arrived to the end of this bill gates story, really, it's a very interesting story of an ambitious young man then a successful business man then richest one in the world.Dear readers Defend your ideas and work hard to improve your self
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