Bill_Gates_Biography

1. Biography of Bill Gates

2. Early Life...
(1955...)
 Bill Gates, in full William Henry
Gates III
 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 Bank System.
 Gates has one elder sister,
Kristi, and one younger sister,
Libby.

4. School Time...
(1968...)
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 computer
for the school's students.
Gates took an interest in
programming the GE system
in BASIC.
He wrote his first computer
program on this machine: An
implementation of tic-tac-toe
that allowed users to play
games against the computer.

5. Gates was attracted by the machine and how it
would always execute software code perfectly.
At age 17, Gates formed a business partnership
with Allen, called Traf-O-Data, to make traffic
counters based on the Intel 8008 processor.
School Time... (1968...)

6. College time....
(1973...)
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).

7. Starting Of Microsoft...
(1975...)
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.

8. Incomplete Graduation….
(1975….)
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.

9. Starting of Windows…
(1985…)
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.
Microsoft Windows came to dominate the
world's personal computer market with over 90%
market share, overtaking Mac, Operating System of
Apple.

10. • Windows 1.0
• It was to compete with Apple's operating system,but
1981 achieved little popularity.
1987
• Windows 2.0
• It’s improvements user interface and memory
management.
1988
• Windows 2.1
• It was released in two different versions: Windows
286 and 386
1990
• Windows 3.0
• It had improved the design.
Starting of Windows… (1985…)

11. 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 32 bit.
1998
• Windows 98- included integration with Internet
Explorer 4 through and updated Desktop.
2001
• Widows XP
• Most successful OS and easy to use(2001-2014)

12. 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 again come with Start menu and updated OS.
• Windows 11
• A slick new interface, better security, updated apps,
2021