William Henry Gates III was born in Seattle, Washington on October 28 1995. He was described by his parents, Bill Gates Jr, and Mary (Maxwell) Gates, as an unusual and energetic child. When he was a baby he learned to rock his cradle by himself, and would be content to rock for hours and hours. As a child, and throughout his life, Gates was a very competitive person with an obsessive personality.

Everything Bill Gates did, he did to the max, and excelled at everything that interested him. As a boy he was encouraged to join the Boy Scouts, and excelled at that as well. " On one 50-mile summer hike, Gates demonstrated the persistence and tenacity that was to be his trademark later in life. Gates showed up for the week-long hike in a new pair of hiking boots that were not suited for hiking eight miles a day. By the end of the first day, his heels had been rubbed raw and his to

Lakeside was one of the first schools in the country to have this technology; the computer room soon became a powerful magnet for some of Lakeside's brightest students, especially young William Gates. "Gates was immediately hooked. Whenever he had free time, he would run over to the upper school to get more experience on the system. But Gates was not the only computer-crazed kid at Lakeside. He found that he

had to compete for time on the computer with a handful of others who were similarly drawn to the room as if by a powerful gravitational force. Among them was a soft-

When Gates was just finishing up his first year at Lakeside, the school purchased a relatively inexpensive Teletype machine. For a fairly hefty fee, users could type commands on the teletype and communicate via telephone line with the PDP-10 minicomputer in downtown Seattle. "Gates was in Paul Stocklin's math class when he got his first peek at the computer room. One spring day, Stocklin took his entire math class over to the upper school to see it. Under Stocklin's supervision, Gates typed in a few instructions and watched in awe as the teletype, after communicating with the PDP-10 several miles away, typed back the response. It was better than science fiction" (Wallace & Erickson, 21)

You can definitely see why William Henry Gates III has become one of the richest men in America, and why his company is so successful. "Eight out of every ten computers now in use are driven by Microsoft Corp.'s software and operating system. Eight out of ten" (Fleischer & Duby, 4). Microsoft is the kind of company you have to do business with. If you're in the computer business, sooner or later you'll need Microsoft.

strict licensing agreements. This made it impossible for Microsoft to mak

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