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Bill Gates On October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington a boy was born. This child would grow up to be one of the most successful people in the history of man. His name, William (Bill) Henry Gates. Bill a.k.a. Trey was a different child from the beginning of his life. His first five years were normal just like most kids. Once he turned six his parents would almost go crazy. He declared war on his mother and always talked back to her as in this example; She would call him up to dinner from his basement bedroom and he would not respond. "What are you doing?" she once demanded over the intercom. "I'm thinking," he shouted back. "You're thinking?" "Yes, Mom, I'm thinking," he said fiercely. "Have you ever tried thinking?" His mother sent him to a psychologist, after a year of tests and studies the doctor came up with a solution. His answer was, "There is nothing you can do. Just give up and live with it." Bill attended Lakeside School. It was a very nice private school. There he learned how to use a computer. His friend, Paul Allen and he would start their computer programming there. The first programs they made were a math program and tic-tac-toe. Bill and three other friends joined forces to make the Lakeside Programmers Group. Bi
In 1992, he also released Windows 3.1. Windows 3.1 was the biggest Microsoft product sold until Windows 95 came out. Many computers still have Windows 3.1 on them. Within a few months, Bill Gates introduced a new operating system called Windows NT. This was for mainly business use. In addition, in 1993, Microsoft introduced five multimedia titles. They were made for education purposes. Microsoft was booming with business, and they would take a big leap in 1993 before companies would be in the race with Microsoft. This year Microsoft would zoom and be nearly impossible to catch up to. That would also be the year Bill would try to get Microsoft in the Internet race. In 1994, Bill, aged thirty-eight, married one of ------------------------------------------------------------------------ lost that spot since. Bill then started to work on Windows 3.0. Windows 1.0 was a huge flop. It was slow compared to Apple and was much harder to use. Apple was clearly winning the race of software. In nineteen ninety, Windows 3.0 was released. Sales were crazy. As many as 25,000 copies were sold in a month! That was a big number back then. That same year, Microsoft had revenue of 1.1 billion dollars, the biggest ever in the computer company. Bill Gates was a big media figure after 3.0. He appeared on four covers of TIME and has been in the press a lot. His boyish figure and his dirty hair caused on uproar. Bill accepted the National Medal of Technology from President George Bush. 2. Jacob Munk-Stander, Team Gates, http://www.teamgates.com In April 1996, Bill and Melinda had their first child. She was named Jennifer Katherine Gates. In an interview with TIME, Bill introduced his new plans for Microsoft. He was going to lead Microsoft into a multimedia age and the Internet age as well. Microsoft and Netscape had big fights with the browser wars. Microsoft just has released I.E. 4.0 now in 1997 Microsoft has released Office 97. That progr
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