Bill gates

Basic info Birth – October 28, 1955; Seattle, Washington, USA Parents – William Henry Gates and Mary Maxwell Gates Spouse – Melinda Gates Children – Jennifer Katharine, Rory John, and Phoebe Adele Net worth – US$86 billion

Early life Lakeside School – started programming and met Paul Allen Harvard – met Steve Ballmer and dropped out to start his own company A yearbook photo from 1973

Microsoft 1975 – started working for MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) with Paul Allen, they named their partnership „Micro-Soft“ 1976 – Microsoft became independent of MITS and continued to develop programming language software 1981 – IBM asked Microsoft to make an operating system for their upcoming PC -> PC DOS First logo from 1975

Paul Allen and Bill Gates in 1981 1983 – Allen left for health reasons 1985 – Microsoft launched the first version of Windows 1989 – Microsoft Office was introduced 1995 – Microsoft released Windows 95 with brand new user interface including start button, followed by Windows 95 Plus! with Internet Explorer browser 2000 – Bill Gates was succeeded by his college friend Steve Ballmer as CEO and became Chief Software Architect Paul Allen and Bill Gates in 1981 Windows 1.0

Philantropy 2008 – Bill Gates was succeeded by Ray Ozzie but continued as the company's chairman, head of the board of directors and an adviser and started to focus on philantropy Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – founded in 2000, the primary aims are global healthcare, reducing poverty and education Bill Gates, Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett – trustees of the Gates foundation

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