Biographical Information on Bill Gates
Uploaded by srheric on Apr 25, 2007
Biographical Information on Bill Gates
Bill Gates was born on October 28 1955 in Seattle, Washington. He grew up as a poor kid. He went to a public elementary school then at 12 he went to a private lakeside school. At 13 he wrote his first computer program. He and his friend Paul Allen wrote a scheduling program for the school. Still in high school, Gates and Allen founded a company called Traf-O-Data, which analyzed city traffic data. Then he later went to Harvard University to become a lawyer like his father and dropped out junior year to pursue his computer programming career.
One day in December 1974, Allen, who was working at Honeywell outside of Boston, showed Gates a Popular Mechanics cover featuring the Altair 8800, a $397 computer from M.I.T.S. computing that any hobbyist could build. The only thing the computer lacked, besides a keyboard and monitor, was software. Gates and Allen contacted the head of M.I.T.S. and said they could provide a version of BASIC for the Altair. That is when he created Microsoft.
He made the first version of windows in 1987. By 1993 he was selling a million copies a week. Then in 1995 he created windows 95 and in 1998 he made windows 98 and so on.
Bill Gates was never very popular when he was young. In school he was usually picked on. The few friends he had were nice to him but he was always a geek in school. He was always one of the smartest people in his grade and he was proud of it. He didn’t have a wife or kids. He was always trying to make a good operating system. When they made personal computers he had to make an operating system for it and that is where MS-DOS came from and windows
After he became famous, he all of a sudden had a wife and kids. He became very rich. He has billions of dollars and has had billions of dollars for years and he keeps making more money. He keeps finding ways to make a better operating system. He doesn’t do much work anymore but instead he has people to do it for him and he still makes more a year than anyone I know. He is now working on how to make Windows XP better or he is working on making a new operating...