Bill Gates

This machine generated statistics on traffic flow from a rubber tube strung across a highway. Unfortunately Traf-O-Data was not a huge success, but gained Paul and Bill experience for their future undertakings. In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University with a major in law, pressed on him by his father. During his freshmen year his long time friend Paul Allen showed him Altair 8800. Made by M.I.T.S., a computer engineering company. It lacked a monitor and keyboard, but most important it lacked software. .
             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 of these applications was Microsoft Word. This program is used in almost every personal computer, school, and business.