of three born to William and Mary Gates. , Bill was sent to a private school by his father, a lawyer, and

mother, a former teacher now on several prestigious boards . At age13,Bill had completely taught

himself programming after taking a computer studies class. After scoring a perfect 800 on the

mathematics half of the SAT, he graduated from Lakeside school and enrolled at Harvard University as

a prelaw major. As a student Gates was a wonder. He received an A in an economics class without

attending and cramming the night before the final exam. In June 1975, Bill Gates dropped out of

Harvard to pursue a career in computers full time.

Later that year after dropping out of Harvard he moved to New Mexico. There he and Allen Kay

established Microsoft to produce their Basic for the MITS. Eighteen months later they were a few

hundred thousand dollars richer and were hired by Tandy to develop software for its radio shack

computers. Gates and Allen then moved their headquarters to Seattle, Washington. In Seattle, Gates

re-wrote an operating system and called it MS-DOS, which stands for Micr

high-capacity, networks will radically alter how we use technology in the upcoming decade.

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companies and across the so called Information Superhighway. He hopes to be on top of the

headquarters in Redmond, Washington, to sit at the feet of the master.

period, Apple computer, headed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, had sued Microsoft accusing the

Industry that pushed hefty boxes of metal and plastic and silicon at thousands of bucks a pop. No one

market spans from virtual reality video games to interactive multimedia programming on cable television.

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