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Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington to William H. Gates Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates.
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When he is enrolled to Lakeside School, a privates school, he befriends his future partner in business, Paul Allen and they made a computerized schedule together. Gates has shown an interest for computers since he was only 13 years old and enjoys programming.
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but attends courses for math and graduate level computer science.
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Paul Allen and Bill Gates calls MITS and offers them to make a program for them. They are awarded $300 plus royalties. Bill takes his first leave from Harvard to develop what they called Micro-Soft.
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The first Microsoft Headquarters were set up at Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Windows is announced and Paul Allen leaves Microsoft due to development of Hodgkin's disease.
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After Microsoft goes public, Microsoft Headquarters moves to Redmond, Washington.
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Bill Gates is named richest man in the world and introduces Internet Explorer.
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Now, she is 17 years old.
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Now, he is 14 years old.
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Bill Gates steps down as CEO of Microsoft and becomes chief software architect while Harvard dorm-mate Steve Ballmer takes over.
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Now, she is 11 years old.
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...for his contributions to UK. He became "Person of the Year" along with Melinda Gates and Bono.
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He gives the commencement speech and recieves his honorary degree.
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He lost his title to his friend Carlos Slim Helu after being #1 for 13 years. He quits his daily routines at Microsoft but stays as chairman and advisor on important development projects. He is also famous for asking billionaires to donate half of their fortunes, Bill and Melinda are also dedicated to donating 95% of their fortune but still manage to get into Forbes 400 list each year.