Bill Gates
He is the richest man in the world. His former friends, who are now his enemies, hate to even hear his name. His company wants to be with you in your office, your car, and even your kitchen. His name is Bill Gates. There is a lot more to Bill Gates than being the richest man in the world. He is one of the people responsible for setting off the computer revolution, and by doing that, he as changed the way mankind lives forever. Who is Bill Gates? Most people do not even know what it is that he does. This paper will talk about Bill Gates' beginnings in computers, his pioneering in the computer industry, the creation of Microsoft, and his extraordinary wealth..William Henry Gates, III was born October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington. He was the middle child of three born to William and Mary Gates. William was a lawyer and Mary was a socialite part-time teacher. Trey, as he was called because of the III, was sent to a private school by his parents. At age 13, Bill had completely taught himself programming after taking a computer study class at Lakeside School (an expensive private school in Seattle). Within a year, he and a man by the n
As of April 12, 1999, Bill Gates is worth one hundred five billion dollars. This underestimates Bill Gates' wealth because it only counts his holdings of Microsoft stock as of 1995 (it is assumed if he has sold stock since then he has invested it in assets that perform about as well as Microsoft). The cars, houses, helicopters, aircraft carriers, islands, and small European countries that he bought before 1995 are not included. Moritz, Charles. William Gates Current Biography. H.W. Wilson Company: New York, NY, 1991. Pp. 237-241. While still at Harvard Bill had been working on a new program he called "BASIC" (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), a new programming language. He later purchased a product and rights to a revolutionary new disk operating system called 86-QDOS from Seattle Computer Products and changed the name to MS-DOS. He then resold the product for profit. Keeping the rights, he got to receive royalties in addition to the sale price of MS-DOS. Even today, profits are still coming in from the sale of the original 86-QDOS. ame of Paul Allan formed the Lakeside Programmer's Group. The group was commissioned by the town to create a traffic-monitoring program. They constructed an application called Traf-o-Data that calculated the number of cars travelling down a road and would then give the best timing for a stoplight. Isaacson, Walter. In Search of the Real Bill Gates. Time Magazine, January 13, 1997. Pp. 46-47.
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