Bill Gates was born in 1955 in Seattle, Washington. He met his friend and future business partner Paul Allen in high school where they shared an interest in computers. In 1975, while still a student at Harvard University, Gates founded Microsoft with Allen. Microsoft grew rapidly and became the dominant manufacturer of computer software, with the Windows operating system becoming the most widely used in personal computers worldwide. Gates retired from full-time work at Microsoft and now focuses his efforts on his charitable foundation with his wife, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which works to promote health and education around the world.

1. Bill Gates
Introduction
William Henry Gates was born on 28 October 1955,in Seattle,
Washington,he has 61 years. His parents are William Henry
Gates II, a successful lawyer,and Mary Gates,a university
professor. He is the principal founderof Microsoft and one of the
most influential and richest people on the planet. He has two
daughters,JenniferKatharineand Phoebe Adele,and one son,
Rory John.
He is married with Melinda Ann French, and togetherthey
founded “The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation”to bring health
and education to the less favored regions. In recent years he
retired from working full time at Microsoft, and he concentrated
on working with his charitable foundation.
Biography
He studied at Lakeside's eliteprivate school in Seattle, where he
saw a computer for first time and he interested in computing.
Here he met Paul Allen, who was two years his partner. They
became fast friends because theyshare the enthusiasm for
computers and spentmuch of their free time together workingon
programs.
In 1975,when he was studying in Harvard University, he created
his business,Microsoft, with Paul Allen.One year later, he left
his studies to focus on the project.
In 1980,he met with IBM representatives (International
Business Machines),to sell his MS-DOS operatingsystem,but he
didn’t have it, so he boughtit very cheap from a young
programmer.
Later, when Steve Jobs (Apple founder) was developing
Macintosh,Bill visited Apple to establish an alliance with him.

2. Microsoft obtained the technologythat it needed and it launched
Microsoft Windows,direct competitor of Macintosh.
In a very short time, the companygrew a lot and it became the
dominantof software manufacture.Currently,Microsoft
Windows is the most used operatingsystem in personal
computers around the world and it has different versions,for
example Windows Vista,XP, 7, 8, 10, etc.