Gates and Allen then created the first version of Micro-soft. There first office was located in Albuquerque which later moved to the current location today in Bellevue, Washington in In Gates life would be changed forever as they made a partnership with IBM. After great success Gates was named the President of Microsoft and chairmen of the board. In the Microsoft IBM partnership was ready to come to a end due to a difference in the direction the company wanted to take.
Gates married Melinda French. They have three children: daughters Jennifer Katharine b. Gates was number one on the Forbes list from through to and number one on Forbes list of The worlds richest People from to and In a May interview, Gates commented that he wished that he were not the richest man in the world because he disliked the attention it brought. They neither had an interpreter and not even an Altair system on which to develop and test. In , Microsoft was not into the business of operating systems OS and most personal computers used Digital Research Inc.
By the early s, Microsoft had sold more than one hundred million copies of MS-DOS making it one of the most successful software ever written. In the issue of the Forbes magazine , Bill Gates was listed among the richest people in America. He was 31 years old. The honor would be later held by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at the age of 23 in It was arguably the game-changer in personal computer software.
Windows 95 was released to enthusiastic customers in the August of and turned out to be the operating system OS that changed everything. Windows is currently installed in high majority of computers some estimating it close to 90 percent in the world. The letter was unpopular with computer enthusiasts, but Gates stuck to his beliefs and would use the threat of innovation as a defense when faced with charges of unfair business practices.
The combative Gates clashed with Roberts on software development and the direction of the business. Roberts considered Gates spoiled and obnoxious. In , Roberts sold MITS to another computer company and went back to Georgia to enter medical school and become a doctor. Gates and Allen were on their own. The pair had to sue the new owner of MITS to retain the software rights they had developed for Altair. Microsoft wrote software in different formats for other computer companies, and, at the beginning of , Gates moved the company's operations to Bellevue, Washington, just east of Seattle.
Gates was glad to be home again in the Pacific Northwest and threw himself into his work. All 25 employees of the young company had broad responsibilities for all aspects of the operation, product development, business development and marketing. At the age of 23, Gates placed himself as the head of the company. With his acumen for software development and a keen business sense, he led the company and worked as its spokesperson.
Gates personally reviewed every line of code the company shipped, often rewriting code himself when he saw it necessary. As the computer industry grew, with companies like Apple, Intel and IBM developing hardware and components, Gates was continuously on the road touting the merits of Microsoft software applications. He often took his mother with him. Mary was highly respected and well connected with her membership on several corporate boards, including IBM's.
Legend has it that at the first meeting with Gates someone at IBM mistook him for an office assistant and asked him to serve coffee. Gates did look very young, but he quickly impressed IBM, convincing them that he and his company could meet their needs. The only problem was that Microsoft had not developed the basic operating system that would run IBM's new computers.
He made a deal with the software's developer, making Microsoft the exclusive licensing agent and later full owner of the software but not telling them of the IBM deal. The company later sued Microsoft and Gates for withholding important information.
Microsoft settled out of court for an undisclosed amount, but neither Gates nor Microsoft admitted to any wrongdoing. IBM wanted to buy the source code, which would have given them the information to the operating system. Gates refused, instead proposing that IBM pay a licensing fee for copies of the software sold with their computers.
Following the development of software for IBM, between and Microsoft's growth exploded. In mid, Gates and Allen incorporated Microsoft, and Gates was appointed president and chairman of the board. Allen was named executive vice president.
By , Microsoft was going global with offices in Great Britain and Japan. An estimated 30 percent of the world's computers ran on its software. Though their rivalry is legend, Microsoft and Apple shared many of their early innovations. In , Apple, at the time led by Steve Jobs , invited Microsoft to help develop software for Macintosh computers. Some developers were involved in both Microsoft development and the development of Microsoft applications for Macintosh.
The collaboration could be seen in some shared names between the Microsoft and Macintosh systems. It was through this knowledge sharing that Microsoft developed Windows, a system that used a mouse to drive a graphic interface, displaying text and images on the screen. This differed greatly from the text-and-keyboard driven MS-DOS system where all text formatting showed on the screen as code and not what actually would be printed.
For the unsophisticated user—which was most of the buying public—the graphic imagery of the competing VisiCorp software used in a Macintosh system would be so much easier to use. Gates announced in an advertising campaign that a new Microsoft operating system was about to be developed that would use a graphic interface.
The announcement was a bluff, in that Microsoft had no such program under development. As a marketing tactic, it was sheer genius. Nearly 30 percent of the computer market was using the MS-DOS system and would wait for Windows software rather than change to a new system. Without people willing to change formats, software developers were unwilling to write programs for the VisiCorp system and it lost momentum by early In November , nearly two years after his announcement, Gates and Microsoft launched Windows.
Visually the Windows system looked very similar to the Macintosh system Apple Computer Corporation had introduced nearly two years earlier.
Apple had previously given Microsoft full access to their technology while it was working on making Microsoft products compatible for Apple computers. Gates had advised Apple to license their software but they ignored the advice, being more interested in selling computers. Once again, Gates took full advantage of the situation and created a software format that was strikingly similar to the Macintosh. The organization has funded abortion groups such as International Planned Parenthood.
The Foundation also helped develop Common Core education standards as part of its billions in education investments, and worked with the Obama administration to implement them. It is a non-binding promise made by billionaires or those who would be billionaires if not for philanthropic efforts to give away most of their money either before they die or in their wills.
Gates is involved in a number of business ventures, including, but not limited to, being the largest shareholder in AutoNation. Gates runs a private blog, GatesNotes. Gates believes that climate change is a major threat to humanity, and has focused major Foundation attention and money to the issue.
Gates criticized U. Gates is also supportive of the idea that Earth is overpopulated. Microsoft defined the burgeoning computer industry for 25 years and continues to impact the technology industry, businesses, and consumers.
Gates has accomplished his original goal of putting a computer in every home, as well as in government agencies, educational facilities, and elsewhere throughout the world.
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