Bill Gates Founding Microsoft

By sbraun

  • Bill Gates is born.

  • Lakeside

    Starts at Lakeside private school and discovered his passion for machines.

  • Graduates Lakeside and starts at Harvard

  • Basic language interpreter called Basic

    Basic works with the altair company.

  • Called their product Micro-soft

  • Register the Microsoft trademark

  • $1,000,000 in Microsoft revenue

  • Produces the operating system for the IBM personal computer

  • Microsoft is incorporated

    Revenues reach $16m

  • $140million in revenue

    Releases the MS-DOS operating system, the first retailing version of windows

  • Microsoft goes public

  • Apple files lawsuit against Microsoft

  • Microsoft office is released

  • 3.0 is launched sells 100,000 copies

  • Forbes declares gates to be richest man in America

    6.3 billion

  • Microsoft market value overtakes IBM

  • Gets married and his mother dies

  • Richest man in the world

    Windows 95 and msn are launched

  • Internet Explorer 3.0

  • Launches Windows 98

  • Revnue reaches 229 billion dollars

  • Microsoft launches windows xp

    made the xbox. Bill launches the gates foundation

  • Gates foudation reaches almost 29 billion

  • Windows Vista and Office 2007 are up

  • Tried to buy yahoo. borrowed money and was rejected

    left full time roll in microsoft

  • Awarded the 2010 Bower Award

  • Honored with the Silver Buffalo Award.