Bill Gates

Prepared By....Vijay Goti15BME042Institute of TechnologyNirma UniversityBiography of Bill Gates

Early Life... (1955...)Gates was born in Seattle, Washington on October 28, 1955.He is the son of William Gates and Mary Gates. His father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother served as the board of directors for Interstate Banc System and the United Way. Gates has one elder sister, Kristi, and one younger sister, Libby.

School Time... (1968...)At 13, he enrolled in the private Lakeside School.When he was in the eighth grade, the Mothers Club at the school used proceeds rummage sale to buy a General Electric (GE) computer for the school's students. Gates took an interest in programming the GE system in BASIC.He wrote his first computer program on this machine: An implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer.

Gates was attracted by the machine and how it would always execute software code perfectly. When he reflected back on that moment, he said, "There was just something neat about the machine.One of these systems was a PDP-10, which banned but Gates, Paul Allen, Ric Weiland, and Kent Evans were caught for exploiting bugs in the operating system.At the end of the ban, the four students offered to find bugs in CCC's software in computer. Rather than use the system via Teletype, Gates went to CCC's offices and studied source code for various programs that ran on the system.

The following year, Information Sciences Inc. hired these four students to write a payroll program in Cobol, providing them royalties. After his administrators became aware of his programming abilities. At age 17, Gates formed a business partnership with Allen, called Traf-O-Data, to make traffic counters based on the Intel 8008 processor.

College time.... (1973...)Gates graduated from Lakeside School in 1973, and was a National Merit Scholar. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT and enrolled at Harvard University at Cambridge.While at Harvard, he met Steve Ballmer, who would later succeed Gates as CEO of Microsoft (from 2000 to 2014).Gates planed an algorithm for pancake sorting as a solution to one of a series of unsolved problems in lecture. Gates' solution held the record as the fastest version for over thirty years.

Starting Of Microsoft... (1975...)Gates did not have a definite study plan while a student at Harvard. Gates remained in contact with Paul Allen, and he joined him at Honeywell in 1974.In 1974, MITS Altair 8800 Computer came into market.Gates contactedthe creators of new microcomputer, to inform them that he and others were working on aBASIC interpreter for the platform.

In reality, Gates and Allen did not have an Altair and had not written code for it; they only wanted to got MITS's interest.MITS president agreed to meet them for a demo few weeks later.During this time, Gates and Allen developed an Altairemulator that ran on a minicomputer, and then the BASIC interpreter.The demonstration was a success and resulted in a deal with MITS to distribute the interpreter asAltair BASIC.

Incomplete Graduation. (1975.)Paul Allen was hired into MITS, and Gates took a permission of absence from Harvard to work with Allen at MITS.Gates and Allen had their first office named Micro-Soft . Within a year, the hyphen was removed, and on November 26, 1976, the name "Microsoft" was registered with the Office of New Mexico.Then Gates never returned to Harvard.

Launching a Revolution (1976)Microsoft's BASIC was popular with computer, but Gates discovered that a pre-market copy was being widely copied and distributed. In February 1976, Gates wrote in the MITS newsletter in which he asserted that more than 90% of the users of Microsoft BASIC had not paid money to Microsoft and by doing so the Altair was in danger to professional developers to produce, distribute, and maintain high-quality software.This letter was unpopular with many computer hobbyists, but Gates persisted in his belief that software developers should be able to demand payment.

Microsoft became independent of MITS in late 1976, and it continued to develop programming language software for various systems.The company moved from Albuquerque to its new home inBellevue, Washington, on January 1, 1979.During Microsoft's early years, all employees had broad responsibility for the company's business. Gates oversaw the business details and write code as well.

IBM Partnership (1980)IBMapproached Microsoft in July 1980, regarding its upcoming IBM Personal Computer. IBM proposed that Microsoft write the BASIC interpreter.When IBM's representatives mentioned that they needed an operating system, Gates referred them toDigital Research(DRI), instead of widely usedCP/M operating system.IBM's discussions with Digital Research went poorly, and they did not reach a licensing agreement. A few weeks later, Gates proposed using86-DOS, an operating system similar to CP/M.After adapting the operating system for the PC, Microsoft delivered it to IBM asPC DOSin exchange for a one-time fee of $50,000.

A Witty Decision... Gates did not offer to transfer thecopyrighton the operating system, because he believed that other hardware vendors would copy the IBM's system. Gates make it better and the sales of MS-DOSmade Microsoft a major player in the industry.Despite IBM's name on the operating system the press quickly identified Microsoft as being very influential on the new computer.PC Magazineasked if Gates were The Man behind the Machine?", andInfoWorldquoted an expert as stating It's Gates' computer".Microsoft's company restructuring on June 25, 1981, which re-incorporated the company in Washington state and made Gates President of Microsoft and the Chairman.

Starting of Windows (1985)Microsoft launched its first Operating System named Windowson 1985 as the growing interest inGraphical User Interfaces, and in August, Microsoft struck a deal withIBMto develop a separate operating system calledOS/2. Windows is a metafamily ofGraphicalOperating Systemsdeveloped, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.Microsoft Windows came to dominatethe world'spersonal computer market withover 90% market share, overtakingMac, Operating System of Apple.When we counting all of the computing platforms each operating system runs on Windows and most popular OS.

TimeLine of Windows(1983 to2015)

Achievements of Bill GatesGates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of thepersonal computer revolution. Gates has beencriticized for his business techniques.Starting in 1987, Gates was 32 years old and included in theForbes list of the world's wealthiest people as billionaire and was the wealthiest from 1995 to 2007, again in 2009 to 2014.Between 2009 and 2014, his wealth doubled fromUS$40billion to more than US$82billion.Gates is currently the wealthiest person in the world with a wealth of US$77.2 billion.

Later in his career Gates followed number of philanthropic endeavours, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through theBill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000.Gates stepped down as CEO of Microsoft in 2000. He remained as Chairman and created the position of Chief Software Architect for himself. In 2006, Gates announced that he would be transitioning from full-time work at Microsoft to part-time work, and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Things Learned from Gates By his Dressing Style Its a common human tendencies to pass judgement on the way others look and dress. But doing this wont serve you well in business.Gates hired smart people at Microsoft and gave them high position for freedom to develop new idea - A good example is Steve Ballmer, who succeeded Gates as CEO. He is more charismatic, showman and communicator than Gates.Gates also knew when it was time to step aside from the CEO role This is not a quality you always see among business leader.

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