October 28, 1955 shortly after 9 PM. He is reported to be the richest private individual in the

World topping the Forbes list of richest people for both 1996 and 1997

INVENTIONS

Gates and his pal Paul Allen produced two programs in the 8th grade: one played

tic-tac-toe. Before long, they were moonlighting as adolescent computer consultants for a local

corporation. In high school, Gates and his friends devised a program that analyzed traffic data

Soon after Gates unveiled his Windows 3.0 program in 1990, the applications software

domination" a holy crusade. They accuse him of trying to leverage Microsoft's near-monopoly in

348 that became known as the "dune buggy" after he spun it into the sand.

system, the OS/2. Six years after the Windows launch, Microsoft dominates the word processing

Netscape, Oracle and Sun have publicly made thwarting Gates's "plan for world

his favorite features: two dozen 40-in. monitors will form a flat-screen display covering an entire

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