Bill Gates Biography and his Success Story the co-founder of Microsoft

Bill Gates Biography and his  Success Story : The Microsoft Co-founder

Today, in this post I will tell you the biography of Microsoft Co-founder Bill Gates and his Success Story and I hope you will like it.

Bill Gates is a prominent American entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist with a terrific career in a development of software for personal-computers. Bill Gates founded the world's largest software business, Microsoft, with Paul Allen, and subsequently he became one of the richest men in the world. 

About Bill Gates

Bill Gates full name is William Henry Gates III. He was born on 28 October, 1955 in Seattle, Washington, U.S. His father William H. Gates Sr.- a successful attorney and his mother Mary Maxwell Gates was a former school teacher, who later became a member of the Board of Directors of the First Interstate Bank. Gates's maternal grandfather was J.W. Maxwell, a national bank president. Gates has one elder sister, Kristi (Kristianne), and one younger sister, Libby. He is the fourth of his name in his family, but is known as William Gates III or "Trey" because his father had the "II" suffix.

Being a child, Bill Gates already possessed a prospective businessman talent, especially in mathematics. However, the family expected Bill Gates to follow his father’s steps and enter Harvard Law School.

In 1968, when Bill and his high school friend Paul Allen went to middle school, the school administration decided to buy a computer time from the General Electric Company. At that time, the system based on DEC PDP-10 micro-architecture was a basis on the market. Later, he said: “When I was thirteen, my school (Lakeside School) installed a teletype machine. From that point on, my friends and I spent most of our free time writing programs and figuring out how to make the computer to do interesting things.”

The Rise Of  Microsoft Company

In June, 1975, Bill Gates creates a company for software development and names it Microsoft (the first version was Micro-Soft). Despite of the hard work of its employees, the company at first experienced some difficulties with distribution of any software products. The company did not have enough money to hire a good sales manager, so this function was performed by Bill Gates’ mother Mary Maxwell Gates. 

Early next year, Gates and Allen found out that the income of the company has dropped to the lowest affordable point. Its main reason was so called ‘piracy’ – illegal copying of software and the use of it without permission of the creator. Many people simply copied the MS-Basic and handed it to someone else. Realizing this, Bill Gates was furious, especially because ‘piracy’ was depriving him from the well-earned income. In addition, these copies contained some mistakes which he wanted to reduce before the formal release of MS-Basic. Gates wrote an open letter in February 1976, which was published in a newsletter for Altair users. In response, the Gates Foundation has received 300 letters, but only a few of them contained a check.

Bill Gates was the very first to state the need in a protection of the software. His actions have made an incredible contribution to the gradual introduction of a thought that a computer program is a product of creativity and therefore must be protected in the same way as a musical composition or a literary work.

Microsoft began to expand and specialize in languages such as Basic, Cobol, Fortan and  Pascal. With this expansion and Microsoft having hit the one million dollar profit margin mark, that was a matter of time until a big-shot computer creative company came knocking at their door. That company was IBM. The partnership IBM and Microsoft developed was a pivotal role which defined technology, to what it has become today. IBM wanted an operating system for their new line of personal computers. Bill Gates bought an operating system in which he renamed, MS-DOS for IBM.


Microsoft launched its first retail version of Microsoft Windows on November 20, 1985. In August of the following year, the company struck a deal with IBM to develop a separate operating system called OS/2. Although the two companies successfully developed the first version of the new system, the partnership deteriorated due to mounting creative differences. Microsoft Windows would be come one of the most used operating systems in history, and one of the most advanced.

In 1986, Microsoft entered the IPO market and during just one day one share cost grew up from $22 to $28 dollars. Microsoft started to dominate an entire industry – it owned about 44 percent of all profits software market. In 1993, the user of Microsoft Windows reached 25 million people in number. Thus, Windows becomes the most popular operating system in the world with a graphical interface.

In 1995 the Microsoft Corporation introduced Windows 95 and just in one year, 25 Million copies of Windows 95 were sold. In 1996-97, the company launched the next generation of Microsoft Windows NT (4.0 and 5.0), which were significantly modified, compared to the first version of the software.

In 1998 Windows 98 was  introduced with the additional modification of internal functions. After that Microsoft creates Windows 2000, which later being called the best Corporate Operating System.

Windows Vista was released on January 30, 2007. It had the strongest security system ever and a matching Office suite, Microsoft Office 2007. Windows 7 was built for the wireless world which arose in the late 2000s. By the time of its release, laptops were outselling desktops, and it had become common to connect to public wireless networks in coffee shops and private one at home.

In 2012, Windows 8 introduced major changes to the operating system’s platform in order to improve its user experience on tablets, where Windows was now competing with mobile operating systems, including Android and iOS. In particular, these changes included a touch-optimized Windows shell based on Microsoft’s Metro design, the Start, and other innovations.

In 2013 Windows 8.1 was released. Windows 10 wes released in July 2015. It includes Edge browser, the new Microsoft browser that substitutes Internet Explorer. Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 during the first year ater the release.

Bill Gates changed the way the world operates,functions, Gates made life easier for humans to live in. To get tasks done within seconds at a time, creating several multitasking software programs.

Awards 

In addition to being one of the richest and most successful businessmen in the history of the world, Bill Gates has also received numerous awards for philanthropic work. Time magazine named Gates one of the most influential people of the 20th century. The magazine also named Gates and his wife Melinda, along with rock band U2's lead singer, Bono, as the 2005 Persons of the Year.

Gates holds several honorary doctorates from universities throughout the world. In 2006, Gates and his wife were awarded the Order of the Aztec Eagle by the Mexican government for their philanthropic work throughout the world in the areas of health and education. In 2016, Gates and his wife Melinda were recognized for their philanthropic work when they were named recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.

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