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Bill Gates The Man behind Microsoft :
Bill Gates is an American inventor,
computer programmer, philanthropist,
and businessman, who was born in
Seattle, Washington.
He is reportedly worth nearly $80 billion, making him one of the
wealthiest people in the country.
HE founded and was the
head of Microsoft corporation
for years, and is still on the board of the computer software
giant.
Gates was born to an upper -
middle class family.
His father was an attorney; His mother was a banker, Who worked for the united way for many years.
He is credited for being the father off modern computer and for almost single handedly starting the personal computer revolution. He studied at Harvard University , but did not graduate because of his desire to develop new software.
As 13- years old student at the Lakeside School, Gates was introduced to computer programing. That year he developed a programmed that allowed to play tic-tac-toe against the compute.
In 1975, Gates approached a company called Micro instrumentation and telemetry system (MITS) . He convinced the owner that he had a written program that would work with his platform. The owner of the company bought into Gates innovations, and the two men reached agreement to develop software (MITS). The Microsoft company was born.
Gates went on to develop the windows operating system with then partner IBM Corporation. The two companies had difference though, and their partnership ended quickly. Gates left Microsoft in 2000, but remains on this board of directors. He remained active with the company for several years before stepping down in February 2014, becoming technical adviser from the firm. Software is biggest company in the world at time. Billion people works on software company.