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A TIME LINE HISTORY OF

THE BILL GATES


He was born on October 28th 1955 in Seattle Washington United States(1)
His father's name was William Henry Gates senior and mother's name was
Mary's Maxwell Gates

he was just 13 when he wrote his first software program on the school's
computer (2)

he studied at the lakeside school where he developed an interest in


computing

He graduated from high school in 1973,

he enrolled at Harvard College later the same year as a college student he


spent a lot of time on the computers
though he was not much interested in studying other subjects
his friend Allen suggested that they'll drop out
of college to start a business Bill Gates and
Paul Allen collaborated to found Microsoft in
1975 in the beginning they adapted basic a
popular programming language for use on
microcomputers it proved to be a success and
they continued to develop programming
language software for various systems

(4) In 1980 the duo was approached by


international business machine IBM with a
proposal that Microsoft write the basic
interpreter for IBM's upcoming personal
computer the IBM PC Microsoft created the PC
DOS
operating system which they delivered to IBM in
exchange for a one-time fee of $50,000
1985
1961
Microsoft launched its first retail version of Microsoft
Windows on November 20th 1985 as a graphical
operating system shell for ms-dos, in August of the
following year the company's struck a deal with IBM to
develop a separate operating system called os/2 over
the following years.

Windows came to dominate the world's personal


computer market acquiring over 90% market share the
company saw
phenomenal financial success and being the company's
largest individual shareholder Bill Gates amassed of
great fortune Microsoft.

Donald Davies
PACKET-SWITCH NETWORK DESIGNER
1989-1995
The ARPANET project led to the development of
protocols for internetworking, in which multiple
separate networks could be joined into a network of
networks for PCs Bill Gates met Melinda French a
young woman working at Microsoft in 1989 (6)

In 1990 Microsoft released its first version of Windows


(7)

during this time gates married Melinda French on a golf


course on the Hawaiian island of Lanai on January 1st
1994 he was 38 and she was 29 they have three children
(8)

In 1995 Windows 95 was released setting new standards


and features for operating systems this version of
Windows has been the backbone of all future releases
from Windows 2000 to the latest XP and Vista Windows
CE operating system platform and the Microsoft
Network were among the innovative solutions
developed by bill gates (9)
2000
in January 2000 gates stepped down as chief
executive officer of Microsoft though he
retained his position as chairman
he created the new position of chief Software
Architect for himself over the next few years he
gradually transferred

2014 - 2019

HIS DUTIES TO OTHERS AT MICROSOFT AND STARTED SPENDING MORE TIME


IN PHILANTHROPIC WORKS HE STEPPED DOWN AS
CHAIRMAN OF MICROSOFT IN FEBRUARY 2014 AD CURRENTLY SERVES AS
TECHNOLOGY ADVISER TO SUPPORT CEO SATYA NADELLA
IN 2015 GATES ALONG WITH HIS WIFE MELINDA RECEIVED THE PADMA
BHUSHAN INDIA'S THIRD HIGHEST CIVILIAN AWARD FOR THEIR SOCIAL
WORK IN THE COUNTRY IN 2016 PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA HONORED
GATES AND HIS WIFE MELINDA WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF
FREEDOM FOR THEIR PHILANTHROPIC EFFORTS SUCCESS IS A LOUSY
TEACHER IT
SEDUCES SMART PEOPLE INTO THINKING THEY CAN'T LOSE SAID BILL GATES

PRESENT DAY
In 2020, he permanently left the board of
directors of the company he had created. The
official version that Gates gave was that he
wanted to focus all his attention on his
foundation.

The initiatives of his foundation have an


ecological and social character. They pursue
goals such as the promotion of vaccination,
the fight against climate change, the
empowerment of women, reinventing the
toilet to bring sanitation to remote areas of
Africa, and even more insane projects such as
throwing dust into the atmosphere to
attenuate radiation. solar.
THANK
YOU!

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