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INSPIRING
PERSONALIT
Y
BY VAIBHAV VIMAL OF GR8-
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BILL GATES
It was very much important for Bill gates to
heed the lessons of failure in comparison to
celebrating the joy of success. This great
entrepreneur who has established Microsoft
like the biggest software company is a
dropout student from Harvard. Furthermore,
he has also been known for his self-owned
business figure known as    Traf-O-Data
which was one of the biggest failures in
history. The entire investment of Bill Gates
got vanished and unfortunately, even the
education could also not get completed. But,
the keen desire and the passion for the
computer programming-based stuff led him to
establish such biggest software company with
the brand name ‘Microsoft’. Right now he is
one of the richest people in the world.
PICTURE OF
BILL GATES
 A QUOTE BY
BILL GATES

 ”feel very lucky to get to connect with so many

extraordinary people. Whenever I have the
chance, I set aside a few minutes to share what
I’m learning here on the Gates Notes. Thanks
for reading ”
.
A VIDEO ABOUT BILL GATES
 Bill Gates success story
• In 1975 Gates read an article in the January of Popular Electronics that
demonstrated the Altair 8800, Gates contacted MITS, the creators of the new
microcomputer, to inform them that he and others were working on a BASIC
interpreter for the platform. Gates and Allen did not have any written code, they
wanted to gauge the interest of MITS. They met with the MITS president and had
developed an Altair emulator within few weeks to demonstrate on a minicomputer
and then the BASIC interpreter. The demonstration was a success which lead onto
a deal with MITS to distribute the interpreter as Altair BASIC. Paul Allen was
hired into MITS and Gates took a leave of absence from Harvard to work with
Allen in November 1975. They named their partnership Micro-Soft, a year later
the hyphen was dropped, and on 26th of November 1976 the trade name Microsoft
was registered.
BM approached Microsoft to write a BASIC interpreter for the new IBM PC, Gates referred them
to Digital Research as they required an operating system, but the discussions did not go well. So
IBM representatives spoke with Gates around the discussions and he proposed using 86-DOS
owned by SCP, an operating system similar to hardware similar to the PC. Microsoft made a deal
with SCP to become the exclusive licensing agent, and later the full owner of 86-DOS. After
adapting the operating system for the PC, Microsoft delivered it to IBM as PC DOS in exchange
for a one time fee of $50,000.
The sales of MS-DOS made Microsoft a major player in the industry. Despite IBM’s name on the
operating system on the operating system, the press quickly identified Microsoft as being very
influential on the new computer. The computer was called by an expert in the industry as “Gates
computer”. The company was restructured on the 25th of June 1981, Gates become the president
and board chairman.
Microsoft launched its first retail version of Microsoft Windows on 20th November 1985 and
struck a deal with IBM to develop a separate operating system called OS/2. IBM & Microsoft
developed the first version of the new system successfully, but their partnership deteriorated due
to creative differences.
Microsoft has been growing ever since. The software and hardware products have
been expanding from Windows OS, Microsoft Office Suites, Office 365, Xbox,
Bing, Hotmail, the list goes on. It all began with the first idea, and then they built
upon that.
Since 1975 Microsoft has had a domination over the software market, Windows
software is used in most companies. They have consistently kept up with the pace
of change and that is why they remain the #1 software company in the world
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