Bill Gates

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.

Bill Gates – Early Life

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 & Microsoft

In 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 Philanthropist 

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. 

*MS DOS The Operating System History 

From a Quick and Dirty Operating System a giant walks (ms-dos), in 1980, IBM first approached Bill Gates and Microsoft, to discuss the state of home computers and Microsoft products. 

*Windows 1.0 To Windows Beyond 2000 

Windows is the graphical user interface for IBM and IBM compatible machines, this article discusses the origins of Windows and where Windows is heading. 

*Top Books on Bill Gates 

Authorized and unauthorized books on Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman and the youngest self-made billionaire in history. 

Bill Gates 11 Rules of Life... 

Bill Gates had given a speech in High School about 11 rules/things they did not and will not learn in school. He talked about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world. 

Rule 1 

Life is not fair – get used to it! 

Rule 2 

The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. 

Rule 3 

You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both. 

Rule 4 

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. 

Rule 5 

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity. 

Rule 6 

If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them. 

Rule 7 

Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room. 

Rule 8 

Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life. 

Rule 9 

Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time. 

Rule 10 

Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. 

Rule 11 

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.