Bill Gates

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On October 28, 1955, shortly after 9:00 p.m., William Henry Gates III was born. He was born into a family with a rich history in business, politics, and community service. His great-grandfather had been a state legislator and mayor, his grandfather was the vice president of a national bank, and his father was a prominent lawyer. Earlier on in life, it was apparent that Bill Gates inherited the ambition, intelligence, and competitive spirit that had helped his progenitors rise to the top in their chosen professions. In elementary school he quickly surpassed all of his peer's abilities in nearly all subjects, especially math and science. His parents recognized his intelligence and decided to enroll him in Lakeside, a private school known for its intense academic environment. This decision had far reaching effects on Bill Gate's life. For at Lakeside, Bill Gates was first introduced to computers.

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[...] Bill Gates, Paul Allen and, two other hackers from Lakeside formed the Lakeside Programmers Group in late 1968. They were determined to find a way to apply their computer skills in the real world. The first opportunity to do this was a direct result of their mischievous activity with the school's computer time. The Computer Center Corporation's business was beginning to suffer due to the systems weak security and the frequency that it crashed. Impressed with Gates and the other Lakeside computer addicts' previous assaults on their computer, the Computer Center Corporation decided to hire the students to find bugs and expose weaknesses in the computer system. [...]

[...] Gates was convinced that the software market had been born. Within a year, Bill Gates had dropped out of Harvard and Microsoft was formed. B. History Microsoft was founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell software for the Altair 8800, a computer. In the mid-1980's, Microsoft, thanks to a contract from IBM, dominate the home computer operating system market with MS DOS. The company later released an initial public offering in the Stock market. [...]

[...] Up until 1995, Microsoft was a business oriented company. In August 1995, it released a new version of its flagship software, Microsoft Windows 95. More than a million copies were sold in the first four days after its release. The new version of Windows was the start of a major transition towards a consumer oriented company. In the mid-90s, Microsoft began to expand its product line into computer networking and the World Wide Web. ( The fourth period: 1995 to today Microsoft is the leader on this market today. [...]

[...] Gates Sr., Co-chair Patty Stonesifer, Chief Executive Officer Sylvia M. Mathews, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director, Global Library, Pacific Northwest, Special Projects Allan C. [...]

[...] At the end of Gates's first year at Harvard, the two decided that Allen should move closer to him so that they may be able to follow up on some of their ideas. That summer they both got jobs working for Honeywell. As the summer dragged on, Allen began to push Bill harder with the idea that they should open a software company. Gates was still not sure enough to drop out of school. The following year, however, that would all change. II. Microsoft A. [...]