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

Lotus and WordPerfect scrambling because they had been creating applications for IBM's

The suburban Microsoft "campus," a cluster of 35 low-rise buildings, is set among lawns,

stupidest thing I've ever heard," and victims wear it as a badge of honor, bragging about it the

begin to play. Estimated Value: $40 million.

Mercedes, a Jaguar XJ6, a $60,000 Carrera Cabriolet 964, a $380,000 Porsche 959 that ended up

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

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