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