Life of bill gates from the year he born upto its current life

1. Prepared By
Sahil Jaiswal

2. • 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.

3. • 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.

4. • 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.

5. • 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.

6. • 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

7. • 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 contacted the creators of new microcomputer, to
inform
• 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.

8. • MITS president agreed to
meet them for a demo few
weeks later.
• During this time, Gates and
Allen developed an Altair
emulator 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 as Altair
BASIC.

9. • 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.

10. • 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.

11. • 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
in Bellevue, 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.

12. • BM approached Microsoft in July 1980, regarding it’s
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 to
Digital Research (DRI), instead of widely used CP/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 using 86-DOS, an
operating system similar to CP/M.

13. • 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.

14. • Microsoft launched its first Operating System named
Windows on 1985 as the growing interest in Graphical
User Interfaces, and in August, Microsoft struck a deal
with IBM to develop a separate operating system
called OS/2.
• Windows is a Metafamily of Graphical Operating
Systems developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.
• Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's
personal computer market with over 90% market
share, overtaking Mac, Operating System of Apple.
• When we counting all of the computing platforms

15. 1981
• Windows 1.0
• It was to complete with Apple’s operating system, but
achieve little popularity.
1987
• Windows 2.0
• It’s improvement user interface and memory
management.
1988
• Windows 2.1
• It was released in two different version: Windows 286
and 386.

16. 1990
• Windows 3.0
• It had improved design.
1992
• Windows 3.1
• It was featured a facelift
1994
• Windows 3.2
• It is an updated chinese version of windows 3.1
1995
• Windows 95
• While still remaining MS-DOS-based, It support 32bit.
1998
• Windows 98- include integration with internet Explorer 4
through and updated Desktop

17. 2001
• Windows XP
• Most successful OS and easy to use (2001-2014).
2006
• Windows Vista
2009
• Windows 7
• It has a best Graphical Interface and easy as windows
XP.
2012
• Windows 8
• Updated Version of Windows 7 and little change in
system.
2015
• Windows 10
• It was come with start menu and updated OS.

18. • Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal
computer revolution. Gates has been criticized for his business
techniques.
• Starting in 1987, Gates was 32 years old and included in the
Forbes 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 from US$40 billion
to more than US$82 billion.
• Gates is currently the wealthiest person in the world with a
wealth of US$77.2 billion

19. • Later in his career Gates
followed number of
philanthropic endeavours,
donating large amounts of
money to various charitable
organizations and scientific
research programs through
the Bill & 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.

20. • By his Dressing Style – It’s a
common human tendencies to pass
judgement on the way others look
and dress. But doing this won’t
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.