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Bill Gates founded Windows, a company that created Microsoft. Bill Gates invented Microsoft in 1975 when he was 20 years old.
This is largely inaccurate. Bill Gates founded a software company called "Microsoft" in April 1975, when he was 19, along with Paul Allen. They started off working on a version of the programming language "Basic".
Later they sold a version of the operating system DOS (called MS-DOS) to IBM to launch on the new IBM personal computer (PC). This took off in a big way and many competitors developed computer hardware which were compatible with the IBM machine. These computers are the ones now called just "PCs".
Several years later, faced with the popularity of the Apple and its user interface, Microsoft developed a similar one for the PC and called it "Windows". The first couple of attempts did not really succeed, as most users were happy to stick with the old DOS way of doing things. Then Windows 3 came along and the Windows 3.1 which made several things (e.g. networking) much easier than on the old DOS basis.
Since then many people (thousands - literally) have worked on one version or another of the Windows software. At the time of writing Microsoft (the company) are preparing to release version 8 of Windows.
The original version of DOS which Gates and Allen sold to IBM was closely based on the work of another company, which Gates bought in. All later versions of DOS and all versions of Windows are not the "invention" of Bill Gates. He was, however, the person who saw the opportunities for all these changes and drove them through.
So - in short - Bill Gates (together with Paul Allen) founded Microsoft the company. At the guiding technical spirit, he helped drive the development of the Microsoft version of the WIMP user interface. However, the Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer way of doing things was invented at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and first popularized by Steve Jobs Apple company.
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∙ 12y agoyes bill gates is the founder of Microsoft and windows and he is our hero .
and i am very glad too he sponsor poor people like us
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∙ 13y agobill gates and Paul Allen created Microsoft bill just did more work and has stepped down as the president of the company
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Did Bill Gates steal ideas?
Its a stolen idea... his friend came up with it BUT HE stole it ....
Is Microsoft Word and Excel invented by bill gates?
Bill Gates did not make up the name Microsoft Word. It was one of his colleagues who thought of it. They had come up with the Word Processing program and one of his colleagues said "Well why don't we name it Microsoft Word?" Gates liked this idea because before Microsoft was not a well known company. This name would accurately tell what it was and help make their company more popular and known throughout the world.
Where did the idea for Windows come from?
Bill Gates
How did bill gates come up with the idea for Microsoft?
Bill Gates actually did create those things. it was created as a way to compete with Apple and Netscape, respectively.
How can you present your idea to Bill Gates?
I have a idea to improve the cell phone
How did Bill Gates get rich?
Bill Gates earned his wealth by founding and running Microsoft Corporation and developing Windows and other software. He created something every one could use, and in these times - NEED. Great idea = marketable product = worldwide sales = money = WEALTH
Did bill gates come up with the idea of windows?
Steve & Bill did work together, after they made DOS they decided to make a more user freindly GUI(pronounced Guwee)which is a Graphics User Interface. They played with the idea around then put the first windows out on the line, Steve resigned as co-founder of Microsoft shortly after due to health issues. They reason they called it windows was because of the idea of multiple user panes, that were evetually dubed windows. but in short, YES, it was his idea. But Steve did alot of the programing and mananging for it in the beginning.
What does Bill Gates charity do?
Alot of thing like you have no idea!
Did bill gates invente the Xbox or the Xbox 360?
no he has not.all he did was tell his team.i want to design a console.they did make it for him.he took all the credit.not doing it for the money but to build a bigger reputation across the world.
How did apple achieved business through the use of information technology and people?
Steve Jobs (Apple) & Bill Gates (MS) Stole Xerox`s idea. Basically Microsoft and Windows were based on an idea he stole from Xerox. Steve Jobs (Apple) & Bill Gates (MS) were together initially. Though my idea is better than URs occured and they went their separate ways. With their own independent companies (MS & apple)
How would mankind be different without Bill Gate?
Not much, because if its not one humans idea , it would've been another. Human mind is greater then the seas , and if Bill gates werent the inventor of microsoft, someone else would have arose with the idea, and would've been the bill gate of today, just with another name !
Why did bill gates been accused as a thief?
because people seemed to be biased toward apple or biased against microsoft, People seem to believe that Microsoft stole the idea of a GUI (Windows, menus, mouse, etc...) from apple and accuse Microsoft (and thus Bill Gates) of being a theif However, the GUI as we know it (windows, menus and a mouse) was not invented by Apple or Microsoft, but by the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates both toured it and went back and developed there own version, with Apple releasing a product first, Microsoft also struck a deal with Apple that licensed some of apple ideas, which licensing is not stealing. There was that time when Microsoft was sued by Digital Research, it was proved that PC-DOS was a CP/M clone
