A Biography OF BILL Gates

A BIOGRAPHY OF BILL GATES

Bill Gates, his full name is William Henry Gates III, was born on the 28 of October

1995, in Seattle Washington., when he was young, his parents suggested that he should

go to lakeside school and there, he was able to use the computer for the first time. He

discovered his interest in computers and was able to understand their relevance in the real

world, he was also able to meet and become friends with his future business partner and

co-founder, Paul Allen. At 13, he wrote his first software program, helped computerized

their school’s payroll system with a group of programmers, and founded a company that

sold traffic-counting systems to the local government called Traf-O-Data.

system MS-DOS to IBM in 1980 and by 1986, because of Microsoft’s success, Gates

amassed a huge fortune as the company’s largest shareholder and became a billionaire

with a net worth that reached tens of billions of dollars, and became one of the world’s

richest private individual. At the beginning of 1995, he refocused Microsoft on the

development of software for the Internet and he also moved the company not only in the

development of software but also into the computer hardware and gaming markets with

the Xbox video machine. In 2008, he left his daily job at Microsoft and stepped down as

chairman but remained on the board and began serving as a technology advisor in 2014.