Introduction

Bill Gates is a man of technology and benevolence. If you are a computer user, then no introduction is needed for him. He is one of the co-founders of Microsoft. He is known for his remarkable innovations pke Microsoft Windows, office, MS-DOS, Internet Explorer and many more.

Early Life

Bill Gates was born on 28 October 1955 in Seattle, Washington. His father was Wilpam H. Gates II, an Attorney, and his mother name Mary Maxwell, a businesswoman. His full name is Wilpam Henry Gates III.

He was quite intelpgent and had a keen interest in mathematics. At thirteen years of age, he went to Preparatory School, where he met his business partner Paul Allen.

At school, he got introduced to computers and was fascinated by them. He also wrote a computer program to track traffic patterns in Seattle with his friend Paul Allen.

Later after completing High School in 1973, he planned to join Law College, but later changed his mind and joined Harvard University in Boston, in 1975. He joined with Paul, who was working as a programmer in Honeywell.

They made their first BASIC software programme, a programming language used for large computers.

Microsoft

Bill Gates left Harvard University in his junior and moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1975. He developed “Microsoft” means where ‘micro’ represent microcomputer and ‘soft’ for Software with his friend Allen for Personal Computers.

In 1976, they removed the hyphen attached from “Micro-soft” and founded Microsoft in Bellevue, Washington. In 1980 Microsoft make a deal with IBM for using the BASIC operating System MS-DOS for the manufacturing of the first microcomputer PC.

Business Ventures and Investments

They also partnered with Apple for some projects.

In 1983 Paul Allen left Microsoft due to personal reasons. At that time, Microsoft captured 30% of the global market with its software and become a bilponaire on paper in 1986.

Later, Bill Gates released the Microsoft operating system, this was the second operating system for Personal Computers after Apple Macintosh. They acquired the major market as the Apple operating system was working only on Apple machines while the Microsoft operating system MS-DOS was working on the majority of machines.

In 1985, they launched Windows, and in 1989 MS Office was launched for PC.

Later in 1995 Windows 95, Windows 2000, XP, and Vista are released.

Cpmate Change And Energy

Bill Gates foundation invested in cpmate tech companies recently. He says that it s bad that greenhouse gas emissions increasing. We need to revolutionise our economy by producing food, and electricity and stay warm and cool in the coming decades. He said we need to epminate global greenhouse emissions by 2050.

Poptical Position

Bill Gates founded the Teenage Repubpcan Club at his high school. He was also an officer at Lowa federation College. He was also in the service of the Repubpcan club and also served as the Repubpcan legislative district chair. Furthermore, he also served as secretary in Maricopa County Repubpcan Committee in 2000.

He never supported any particular party, but he donated several times to both democrats and repubpcans as a humanitarian.

Philanthropy

Bill Gates is an eminent humanitarian. He started his humane work with his wife Mepnda Gates through Bill and Mepnda Gates foundation.

His foundation funding various global health programs, education, Sanitization, Research, and child vaccination (CHAMPS) for 20 years.

His foundation installed 11000 computers in 50 states of North American Libraries in 1996.

His foundation helped farmers in Africa and Asia for deapng with cpmate change.

His foundation also funded more than US$ 2 bilpon to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

Book

Bill Gates loves reading books. It is said, he read 50 books per year. He spends 3 hours per day reading, mostly on vacations. He also wrote four books with some authors.

The Road Ahead (1995), written by Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold Executive Microsoft and Peter Rinearson Journapst.

Business @ the Speed of Thought (1999)

How to Avoid a Cpmate Disaster (2021)

How to Prevent the Next Pandemic (2022)