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Bill Gates and Paul Allen wanted to start a company and did.- Mark B. DelanoWhat Year?
He IS the founder of Microsoft and the world's richest man. You probably know what Microsoft is and you probably know that rich people are influential. Microsoft operating system i think make up about 50% of all computer systems. hat is pretty big.
Bill Gates came from a family of entrepreneurship and high-spirited liveliness. William Henry Gates III was born in Seattle, Washington on October 28th, 1955. His father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. His late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent, and chairwoman of United Way International.He had an early interest in software and began programming computers at the age of thirteen. In 1973, Bill Gates became a student at Harvard University, where he meet Steve Ballmer (now Microsoft's chief executive officer). While still a Harvard undergraduate, Bill Gates wrote a version of the programming language BASIC for the MITS Altair microcomputer.Did you know that as young teenagers Bill Gates and Paul Allen ran a small company called Traf-O-Data and sold a computer to the city of Seattle that could count city traffic?Bill Gates & MicrosoftIn 1975, before graduation Gates left Harvard to form Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. The pair planned to develop software for the newly emerging personal computer market.Bill Gate's company Microsoft became famous for their computer operating systems and killer business deals. For example, Bill Gates talked IBM into letting Microsoft retain the licensing rights to MS-DOS an operating system, that IBM needed for their new personal computer. Gates proceeded to make a fortune from the licensing of MS-DOS.On November 10, 1983, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, Microsoft Corporation formally announced Microsoft Windows, a next-generation operating system.On January 1, 1994, Bill Gates married Melinda French Gates. They have three children. Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, have endowed the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with more than $28.8 billion (as of January 2005) to support philanthropic initiatives in the areas of global health and learning.
Microsoft's first software was a a BASIC programming language interpreter that they created for the MITS Altair 8800 computer in 1975. Microsoft developed Applesoft BASIC for the early Apple computers (the name being a combination of Apple and Microsoft) before moving on to operating systems first with their UNIX clone called XENIX in 1980 and Windows in 1986.
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.
bill gates make his money by developing, marketing, and selling computer programs like Microsoft word, PowerPoint, and excel. he co-founded Microsoft office.that earned him a couple billion $
Bill Gates is the owner of Microsoft.
Make Microsoft!
he made microsoft in 1886
To make money
Yes. He even dropped out of school to make Microsoft.
Bill Gates invented microsoft. He is now one of the worlds richest men.
No. Bill Gates founded Microsoft.
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.
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Bill Gates was hired to virtualy make a coumputerized schulde of classes for his school
Microsoft is a software company, Microsoft is not a computer. They make operating systems, and software, not computers. Microsoft is owned by shareholders. Bill Gates did own the largest part,and was CEO, but has left the company.