The Life of Bill Gates

The Early Years

 William Henry Gates III

 Born October 28, 1955 in Seattle Washington

 Attended a public elementary school and

excelled above all expectation
 The Early Years
 Enrolled into the prestigious and private
Lakeside School at age 13. Here he met Paul
Allen

 Gates and his friends became obsessed with

computer time, forming Lakeside
Programmers Group
 The Early Years
 The group was suspended from the computer
room for several weeks due to hacking

 Computer Center Corporation, C-Cubed, hired

the boys to find bugs in their system

 C-Cubed goes out of business, forcing the

group to look elsewhere for computer time
 The Early Years
 Information Services Inc. hired the group to
create a payroll for their company in exchange
for unlimited computer time

 Due to their business deal the Lakeside

Programmers Group had to become a legal
business
 The Early Years
 As The Lakeside Programmers Group, Gates
and his friends created a scheduling system for
the Lakeside School when they graduated

 The group then became Traf-O-Data, creating

a program to measure traffic flow for the
Washington States Road Department
 The Early Years
 Bill Gates enrolled at Harvard in 1973 for pre-
law because he was unsure of what he wanted
to do

 One day when Paul Allen was visiting Gates at

Harvard he bought an issue of Popular
Electronics that would change their lives
forever
 The Early Years
 This issue featured the first ever microcomputer:
MITS’ (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry
Systems) Altair 8800

 Gates called MITS and told them that he and Allen

had written a BASIC for their new computer

 This was in fact, untrue, but MITS wanted to see their

code
 The Early Years
 Gates and Allen worked for eight weeks on the
code

 When it was finally finished, Allen brought it

to MITS’ headquarters in Albuquerque, New
Mexico

 The code worked perfectly, and so Microsoft

was born
 The beginning of Microsoft
 Micro-Soft is founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and
Paul Allen
 The original name was Micro-Soft which was
an abbreviation for microcomputer software
 The name changed to Microsoft without the
hyphen soon after the founding of the company
 Gates dropped out of Harvard during his junior
in order to devote energy to Microsoft
 The beginning of Microsoft
 Throughout his career in computer software
Bill Gates has fought aggressively to eliminate
software piracy
 The beginning of Microsoft
 On November 1, 1978 the Microsoft went
international and opened a sales office in
Japan
 The beginning of Microsoft
 Microsoft develops the MS-DOS
 MS-DOS puts Microsoft on the map
 MS-DOS is licensed to IBM
 The beginning of Microsoft
 Microsoft develops Windows
 A version of the GUI
 Alternative to DOS
 Not originally popular
 Microsoft Grows
 In 1991 Microsoft Windows 3.0 is
introduced
 sells over 10 million copies
 Microsoft expands overseas
 Microsoft Grows
 In 1992 Windows 3.1 is introduced
 Gates receives the National Medal of
Technology for Technological Achievement
 Microsoft Windows for
Workgroups wins an award
for technical excellence
from PC Magazine
 Microsoft Grows
 Other Operating Systems
 Windows NT
 Windows 95

 Windows 98

 Windows 2000

 Windows ME

 Windows XP
 Microsoft Today
 July 2008, Gates will
step down as Chief
Software Architect
 He still remains the
Chairman
 Gates wants to spend
more time with family
and charitable events
 Personal Life

 Married in 1994, on
an island in Hawaii
 Three children
 Estate worth
$62,514,400
 Personal Life
 Bill Gates and his criminal record
 Charity
 Philanthropist
 Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation
 Global Health Program
 Global Development
Program
 United States Program