William Henry Gates III founded the massive software company Microsoft. Microsoft creates widely used operating systems and programs like Windows and Microsoft Office. The company is located around the world and its products are essential for students, businesses, and personal computers. Microsoft continues developing new technologies and improving existing programs to progress computer capabilities further.

1. William Henry Gates III and
The Microsoft Corporation
By: Liza Kurtz

2. Table of Contents
 Bill Gates
 William Henry Gates III 1
 William Henry Gates III 2
 William Henry Gates III 3
 Microsoft
 Microsoft 1
 Microsoft 2
 Microsoft 3
 Microsoft’s Future Plans
 Microsoft’s Future Plans 1
 Microsoft’s Future Plans 2
 Microsoft’s Future Plans 3
 Conclusion Slide
 References Slide

3. William Henry Gates III
 Bill Gates grew up in Seattle, Washington attending
Lakeside School.
 He has always had an itch for software and computers
and started to program computers when he was thirteen,
little did he know this was going to bring him great
success.
 Gates attended Harvard University. At Harvard he worked
on a program for the first microcomputer. He eventually
left Harvard in his junior year and began the Microsoft
Corporation with Paul Allen.

4. Some Interesting Facts Behind
William Henry Gates III
 He is a very smart man scoring a 1590 on his SAT when
the highest score possible was a 1600.
 He sold a program to his high school when he was 17 for
4,200 dollars.
 Gates told his professors at Harvard that he would be a
millionaire by the age of 30, his professors should be
proud to see that their student became a billionaire at the
age of 31.
 Gates’s Microsoft idea has created a salary for him of 250
dollars per second.

5. William Henry Gates III
This graph shows
Bill Gates Net Worth

6. Microsoft
 Microsoft is the largest known software company in the
entire world.
 Microsoft is based on developing, manufacturing, and
licensing software products.
 The products include operating systems, server
applications, business and consumer applications, and
software development tools, as well as Internet
software, technologies, and services.

7. Microsoft Example
 Probably the most widely
known Microsoft product is
Microsoft Office.
 Microsoft Office is used in
education setting, career
setting, and more.
 Microsoft Office includes
Word, Powerpoint,
Publisher, Messenger,
Excel, and Entourage.
 Bill Gates once said that it
is not possible to have a
computer without
Microsoft.

8. First Microsoft Team

9. Microsoft’s Future Plans
 Recently, Microsoft exposed what they earned for the year
of 2009.
 Microsoft earned 12.9 billion.
 Wall Street did not even expect them to earn this much.
 Recently in 2009, Microsoft released Windows 7.

10. Microsoft’s Future Plans
 Microsoft planned to come out with Vista in 2007. Vista
was said to require users to start all over. It required new
and enhanced hardware.
 Microsoft plans to make easier sharing in the future. This
is their prime focus to boost sales. They want to create a
teamwork setting for Microsoft Office.
 They want to work on security as well. They plan to create
a restricted rights programming for businesses using their
products.

11. Microsoft’s Future Plans
 “We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of
what the PC can be.” – Bill Gates
 Microsoft has progressed tremendously over the years
and will never stop growing.
 New additions and programs will keep Microsoft on the
right track to making the ultimate PC.

12. Microsoft is a multi-billion dollar company
founded by a very intelligent man who was very
interested in computers, named Bill Gates.
Microsoft is used everywhere in the world
and is becoming needed for students and
employees.
Microsoft keeps progressing with its
programs and is developing more and more
each day with it’s staff coming up with new
ideas for a better PC.

13. References
 http://www.woopidoo.com/biography/bill-gates.htm
 http://inventors.about.com/od/gstartinventors/a/Bill_G
ates.htm
 http://www.zpub.com/un/bill/
 http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-
histories/Microsoft-Corporation-Company-History.html
 http://business2press.com/2009/10/23/microsoft-q3-
earnings-new-apple-attack-ads/
 http://www.msversus.org/microsoft-future-products.html