Bill Gates

Prepared By....
Harsh kr. Verma
 Early Life...
Gates was born in Seattle,
Washington on October 28,
1955.
He is the son of William
Gates and Mary Gates.
His father was a prominent
lawyer, and his mother
served as the board of
directors for Interstate Banc
System and the United Way.
Gates has one elder sister,
Kristi, and one younger
sister, Libby.
School Time...
(1968...)
At 13, he enrolled in the
private Lakeside School.

When he was in the eighth

grade, the Mothers Club at
the school used proceeds
rummage sale to buy a
General Electric (GE)
computer for the school's
students.

He wrote his first computer

program on this machine: An
implementation of tic-tac-toe
that allowed users to play
games against the computer.
Gates was attracted by the machine and how it
would always execute software code perfectly.
When he reflected back on that moment, he said,
"There was just something neat about the machine.
One of these systems was a PDP-10, which banned
but Gates, Paul Allen, Ric Weiland, and Kent Evans
were caught for exploiting bugs in the operating
system.
At the end of the ban, the four students offered to
find bugs in CCC's software in computer. Rather
than use the system via Teletype, Gates went to
CCC's offices and studied source code for various
programs that ran on the system.
The following year, Information Sciences Inc.
hired these four students to write a payroll
program in Cobol, providing them royalties. After
his administrators became aware of his
programming abilities.

At age 17, Gates formed a business partnership

with Allen, called Traf-O-Data, to make traffic
counters based on the Intel 8008 processor.
 College time....
(1973...)
Gates graduated from
Lakeside School in 1973, and
was a National Merit Scholar.
He scored 1590 out of 1600 on
the SAT and enrolled at
Harvard University at
Cambridge.
While at Harvard, he met
Steve Ballmer, who would
later succeed Gates as CEO
of Microsoft (from 2000 to
2014).
Gates planed an algorithm for
pancake sorting as a solution to
one of a series of unsolved
problems in lecture. Gates'
solution held the record as
 Starting Of Microsoft...
(1975...)
Gates did not have a definite
study plan while a student at
Harvard.
Gates remained in contact with
Paul Allen, and he joined him
at Honeywell in 1974.
In 1974, MITS Altair 8800
Computer came into market.
Gates contacted the creators
of new microcomputer, to
inform them that he and
others
In reality, Gates and Allen did not have an Altair
and had not written code for it; they only wanted
to got MITS's interest.
MITS president agreed to meet them for a demo
few weeks later.
During this time, Gates and Allen developed an
Altair emulator that ran on a minicomputer, and
then the BASIC interpreter.
The demonstration was a success and resulted in
a deal with MITS to distribute the interpreter
as Altair BASIC.
Incomplete Graduation….
(1975….)
Paul Allen was hired into MITS, and Gates took a
permission of absence from Harvard to work with
Allen at MITS.
Gates and Allen had their first office named
“Micro-Soft” .
Within a year, the hyphen was removed, and on
November 26, 1976, the name "Microsoft" was
registered with the Office of New Mexico.
Then Gates never returned to Harvard.
 Launching a Revolution… (1976…)
Microsoft's BASIC was popular with computer, but Gates
discovered that a pre-market copy was being widely
copied and distributed.
In February 1976, Gates wrote in the MITS newsletter in
which he asserted that more than 90% of the users of
Microsoft BASIC had not paid money to Microsoft and by
doing so the Altair was in danger to professional
developers to produce, distribute, and maintain high-
quality software.
This letter was unpopular with many computer
hobbyists, but Gates persisted in his belief that
software developers should be able to demand
payment.
Microsoft became independent of MITS in late
1976, and it continued to develop programming
language software for various systems.
The company moved from Albuquerque to its new
home in Bellevue, Washington, on January 1,
1979.
During Microsoft's early years, all employees had
broad responsibility for the company's business.
Gates oversaw the business details and write code
as well.
 IBM Partnership…
(1980…)
IBM approached Microsoft in July 1980, regarding it’s
upcoming IBM Personal Computer. IBM proposed that
Microsoft write the BASIC interpreter.
When IBM's representatives mentioned that they needed
an operating system, Gates referred them to Digital
Research (DRI), instead of widely
used CP/M operating system.
IBM's discussions with Digital Research went poorly, and
they did not reach a licensing agreement.
A few weeks later, Gates proposed using 86-DOS, an
operating system similar to CP/M.
After adapting the operating system for the PC, Microsoft
delivered it to IBM as PC DOS in exchange for a one-time
fee of $50,000.
A Witty Decision...
Gates did not offer to transfer the copyright on the
operating system, because he believed that other
hardware vendors would copy the IBM's system.
Gates make it better and the sales of MS-DOS made
Microsoft a major player in the industry.
Despite IBM's name on the operating system the
press quickly identified Microsoft as being very
influential on the new computer.
PC Magazine asked if Gates were “The Man behind
the Machine?", and InfoWorld quoted an expert as
stating “It's Gates' computer".
Microsoft's company restructuring on June 25, 1981,
which re-incorporated the company in Washington
state and made Gates President of Microsoft and the
Chairman.
Starting of Windows…
(1985…)
Microsoft launched its first Operating System named
Windows on 1985 as the growing interest
in Graphical User Interfaces, and in August,
Microsoft struck a deal with IBM to develop a
separate operating system called OS/2.
Windows is a metafamily of Graphical Operating
Systems developed, marketed, and sold by
Microsoft.
Microsoft Windows came to dominate the
world's personal computer market with over 90%
market share, overtaking Mac, Operating System of
Apple.
When we counting all of the computing platforms
 • Windows 1.0
• It was to compete with Apple's operating system, but
1981 achieved little popularity.

• Windows 2.0
• It’s improvements user interface and memory
1987 management.

• Windows 2.1
• It was released in two different versions: Windows
1988 286 and 386

• Windows 3.0
1990 • It had improved the design.
 • Windows 3.1
1992 • It was featured a facelift.

• Windows 3.2
1994 • It is an updated Chinese version of Windows 3.1.

• Windows 95
1995 • While still remaining MS-DOS-based, It support 32 bit.

• Windows 98- included integration with Internet

1998 Explorer 4 through and updated Desktop.

• Widows XP
2001 • Most successful OS and easy to use(2001-2014)
200 • Windows Vista
6

• Windows 7
2009 • It has a best Graphical Interface and easy as Windows XP.

• Windows 8
2012 • Updated Version of Windows 7 and little change in system.

• Windows 10
2015 • It was again come with Start menu and updated OS.
Achievements of Bill Gates…
 Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs ofthe
personal computer revolution. Gates has been criticized
for his business techniques.
 Starting in 1987, Gates was 32 years old and included in the
Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people as billionaire and
was the wealthiest from 1995 to 2007, again in 2009 to
2014.
 Between 2009 and 2014, his wealth doubled from
US$40 billion to more than US$82 billion.
 Gates is currently the wealthiest person in theworld
with a wealth of US$77.2 billion.
 Later in his career Gates followed number of
philanthropic endeavours, donating large amounts
of money to various charitable organizations and
scientific research programs through the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000
.
Gates stepped down as CEO of Microsoft in 2000.
He remained as Chairman and created the
position of Chief Software Architect for himself.
 Things Learned from Gates…
By his Dressing Style – It’s a common human
tendencies to pass judgement on the way others look
and dress. But doing this won’t serve you well in
business.
Gates hired smart people at Microsoft and gave them
high position for freedom to develop new idea - A
good example is Steve Ballmer, who succeeded
Gates as CEO. He is more charismatic, showman and
communicator than Gates.
Gates also knew when it was time to step aside from
the CEO role – This is not a quality you always see
among business leader.