2. Introduction
Childhood(part 1 & 2
Traf -O-Data
Altair 8800
The Beginning Microsoft
What is Microsoft?
Bill Gates and IBM
Good news bad News
Windows
Good thing Bad thing
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
My letter to Bill Gates
Movie!!!!!!
3. Bill Gates as most of us know is the creator of
Microsoft. Bill Gates was known for his
intelligence, creativity, and of his company,
Microsoft. Bill Gates is an explorer and this
why…..
4. Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955 In
Seattle, Washington. He spent hours reading
reference books and the encyclopedia. At the
age of 11 his parents were worried about his
behavior. He did good at school but he
seemed bored sometimes. So at the age of 13
his parents transferred him to a private
school in Seattle called Lakeside School.
5. At Lakeside Bill Gates Did great in almost all the
subjects the school had. At Lakeside, a computer
company in Seattle asked to give computer time for
students at the school. Bill Gates was very
interested in the computer and would spend every
free time he had in the computer room. At Lakeside
Bill Gates met Paul Allen. Bill Gates and Paul Allen
loved the computer and both of them worked in the
computer room.
6. When Bill Gates was 13, him and Paul Allen
went to business together. They made Traf-O-
Data, a computer program that watched traffic
patterns in Seattle. With that program Bill
Gates and Paul Allen got $20,000. Bill Gates
and Paul Allen wanted to make their own
company but Gate’s parents told him to finish
high school and start collage.
7. Bill Gates graduated Lakeside School in 1973. He
then attended Harvard University in fall. In
Harvard, Bill would spend more time in the
computer lab than in class. In 1974 Bill Gates
joined Paul Allen at Honeywell. One day Paul
Allen read a magazine and saw the Altair 8800
computer kit. Bill Gates and Paul Allen were
thinking of the possibilities they could do with
the Altair 8800.
8. The Altair 8800 was made by a company in
New Mexico called Micro Instrumentation and
Telemetry Systems, also known as (MITS). Bill
Gates and Paul Allen called the company and
told them they were working on a software
that would run on the Altair 8800. But Bill
Gates didn’t have the Altair 8800, he just
wanted to make a software that would run on
the Altair computer. The company agreed.
9. Microsoft is software that was made by Bill
Gates. It was launched in 1975 and ran on the
Altair8800.
10. Bill Gates and Paul Allen went to Albuquerque,
New Mexico to test their software and it
worked just right. In 1975 Bill Gates and Paul
Allen started Microsoft. At first Microsoft was
free and people could do anything with it. On
1977 Ed Roberts the CEO of MITS sold the
company to another computer company. Bill
Gates and Paul Allen were by themselves. Bill
Gates sued the new manager to keep their
software for the Altair.
11. In 1980 IBM(a hardware company) was looking
for software that would run on their computer
and went to Microsoft. One day an IBM worker
thought he was an office assistant and asked
for coffee. Bill Gates did look young but Gates
got IBM’s attention pretty quickly and
convinced IBM that Microsoft would help their
needs.
12. Around 1978-1981 the staff increased from 25
people to 128 people. Also around mid 1981
Bill Gates was chosen as the president of
Microsoft and Paul Allen as the vice president.
On 1983 Microsoft went global from places in
Japan and Great Britain. Also 30% of the
worlds computers ran on Microsoft. That same
year Paul Allen was got the Hodgkin's disease
and left the Microsoft company.
13. On November 1985, Microsoft launched
Windows. After a while Windows looked a lot
like Apple’s Macintosh. Before Apple gave
Microsoft access to their technology while
Microsoft products that would work on the
Apple computer. Bill Gates told Apple to
license their work but they refused.
14. In 1987, Bill Gates became a billionaire has
been on the top of Forbes 400 list of the worlds
richest people and held the title for 18 years.
On 1994 Bill Gates married Melinda French at
Hawaii. A few months later something terrible
happened. Bill Gate's mother got breast cancer
and died in June 1994.
15. In 2000 Bill and Melinda Gates started the Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation. At this time
Bill Gates left Steve Ballmer as the CEO of
Microsoft. He still was the president of
Microsoft. On June 27, 2008 Bill Gates retired
from Microsoft to work at the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation.
16. One day I was thinking if Bill Gates could come
to our school so I could interview him. So I
decided to send him an email and this is the
response…
https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/1
3c834d08cfbf606
17. Books:
Bill Gates Billionaire Computer Whiz by David Marshall . Published by
Thomas Gale. Copy right 2004.
Bill Gates Computer
legend by Sara Barton Wood. Published by Raintree Steck Vaughn
Publishers. Copyright 2002.
Websites:
http://www.biography.com/people/bill-gates-9307520?page=2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
http://www.thegatesnotes.com/
18. Video & Media
Bill Gates Sultan of Software (Movie)
Bill Gates mini Bio(Video)
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