Bill Gates, Great Microsoft Chairman

Bill Gates came from a family of entrepreneurship and great vivacity of spirit. William Henry Gates III was born in Seattle, Washington on 28 October 1955. His father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. His late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent, and chairwoman of United Way International.
Bill Gates - Early Life
He had an early interest in software and began programming computers at age thirteen. In 1973, Bill Gates became a student at Harvard University, where he will meet Steve Ballmer (now CEO of Microsoft). While still a student at Harvard, Bill Gates wrote a version of the programming language BASIC for the MITS Altair microcomputer.
Did you know that young teens like Bill Gates and Paul Allen had a small company called Traf-O-Data and sold the team to Seattle, I could count on the city traffic?
Bill Gates and Microsoft
In 1975, before graduation, Gates left Harvard to form Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. The couple planned to develop software for the emerging market for personal computers.
The company Microsoft's Bill Gates was famous for its operating systems and business murderer. For example, Bill Gates talked IBM into letting Microsoft retain the licensing rights to MS-DOS operating system that IBM needs for its new personal computer. Gates proceeded to make a fortune from licensing MS-DOS.
In 10 November 1983 at the Plaza Hotel in New York, Microsoft Corporation formally announced Microsoft Windows, a next-generation operating system.
On 1 January 1994, Bill Gates married Melinda Gates French. They have three children.
Philanthropist Bill Gates
Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, have endowed the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with over 28.8 billion U.S. dollars (January 2005) to support philanthropic initiatives in the areas of global health and learning.