William H. Gates III, was born on October 28, 1955, and grew up in Seattle Washington. His father, William H. Gates II, was a prominent lawyer and was rather wealthy. His mother, Mary Gates was a schoolteacher, and served on many charitable boards, and also, was chairwoman of United Way International. Bill showed a lot of talent for math and logic. Bill Gates’ accomplishments began when he was at the age of 13.

His father enrolled him in the private Lakeside school. This is where his career in personal computer software started. Having an interest in computers was extremely rare, especially for a young teenage boy. For computers back then were still the size of a room, and only run by sophisticated scientists.

Gates and Allen teamed up once again and signed a contract with M.I.T.S. A year or so later the creation of BASIC arrived. BASIC is a simple, but commonly used programming language used by many high schools and small-scale businesses worldwide. With the creation of this new language, more and more people began taking interest in the computer world. Bill was now in his junior year at Harvard. He decided to drop out to start a company with Paul Allen. This company is called the now famous Microsoft. In a span of a couple of years Microsoft wrote a bunch of software. Then in 1980 came an event that changed Gate’s life around. IBM wanted all of Microsoft’s programming languages. IBM asked Bill if he would provide an operating system for its first personal computer. He introduced to them MS-DOS, the first operating system to be distributed. It was software that enabled the computer to carry out commands. It was very user-friendly so even children could use it, making it very popular. He licensed it to IBM. The markets exploded. This made it possible for businesses to use IBM’s computers, gaining them enormous profits. Along with this great achievement, Microsoft was set financially for the next couple years due to licensing agreements with IBM. Microsoft continued on making consumer applications. One o

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