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Bill Gates
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Interview
Biography
Born in Seattle in 1955, William Henry Gates III is chairman and Chief Executive
officer of the Microsoft Corporation. Gates cofounded Microsoft in 1975 with Paul Allen.
Gates had been involved with various programming projects throughout high school. While at
Harvard in 1975, Gates teamed up with Allen to develop a version of the BASIC computer
programming language for the MITS Altair, the first personal computer. This led him to
drop out of Harvard in 1977 to pursue his vision of "a computer on every desk and in
every home", the idea behind the Microsoft Corporation.
In the early 1980's, Gates led Microsoft's evolution from a developer of computer
programming languages to a diversified computer software company producing computer
operating systems and applications software as well as programming tools. This transition
began with the introduction of MS-DOS, the operating system for the new IBM Personal
Computer in 1981. Gates took a personal role in convincing other computer companies to
standardise on MS-DOS, fuelling computer industry growth in the 1980's through software
compatibility. Bill Gates is married and lives in Bellevue in Washington State. |
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