Bill Gates' Biography

Bill Gates is a co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, one of the largest and most successful technology companies in the world. He was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. Gates’ love for technology and computers began at an early age, and he was programming computers by the age of 13. In 1973, he enrolled in Harvard University, but dropped out two years later to start Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. The company’s first product was a BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800, one of the first commercially successful personal computers. In the early 1980s, Microsoft released the first version of its popular Windows operating system, which quickly became the dominant personal computer operating system in the world. Over the next few decades, Microsoft continued to release new versions of Windows, as well as other popular software products such as Microsoft Office, which became the standard for productivity software. In addition to his work ...