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birth
William Henry Gates III was born on October 28.
He is the son of William Henry Gates II, a prominent lawyer, and Mary Gates, a professor at the University of Washington and director of First Interstate Bank. -
studies
He studied at the private and high society school of Lakeside, in Seattle. This school already had a computer in 1968, and that is when it begins to be interested in computer science. -
Sell your first software program
He sells his first software program for $ 4,200. -
1975
In 1975 they moved to Albuquerque (New Mexico) to work by supplying the MITS company with a series of programs that could be used with the first microcomputer, the Altair, for which they had developed a version of the BASIC programming language -
microsoft foundation
they founded their own computer software production company, Microsoft Corporation, in Albuquerque, with Bill Gates as president and CEO. His business was to develop programs tailored to the needs of the new microcomputers and offer them to cheaper manufacturing companies than if they had developed them themselves -
leave the university
Leave Harvard to devote to Microsoft. -
back to seattle
When, in 1979, Microsoft began to grow (there were sixteen employees at the time), Bill Gates decided to move his headquarters to Seattle. -
business with ibm
As President of Microsoft and with the help of his mother, who was a member of the board of directors, he met with senior IBM executives in Seattle. He managed to sell the MS-DOS operating system to IBM. -
the arrival of windows
On November 20, 1985 Microsoft released the first version of Windows 1.0, the system code name was "Interface Manager" and had support for more than 16 years before being declared obsolete. -
growing in popularity
El 9 de diciembre de 1987 Microsoft lanza Windows 2.0, la primera versión de Windows que incluye el panel de control. Windows 2.0 tiene iconos en el escritorio, atajos de teclado, ofrece la posibilidad de superponer ventanas y tiene memoria extendida.
Windows 2.0 fue más popular, y coincidió con la llegada de las nuevas aplicaciones gráficas de Microsoft: Excel y Word for Windows. -
Bill Gates touches the sky
In 1988, his company Microsoft became the largest software company in the world in sales volume. -
bill commits
January 1, 1994 Bill Gates Marries Melinda Gates -
XP
On October 25, 2001, Bill Gates and Microsoft launched WIndows XP one of the best operating system versions in the history of computer science.
