Siddharth's Blog: Bill Gates

Bill Gates

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Microsoft King "Bill Gates"

Bill's Profile

Name : Bill Gates

Nickname : Trey

Date of birth : 28 October 1955

Place of birth : Seattle, Washington, USA

Birth name : William Henry Gates III

Height : 5' 10

Timeline

1955 - William Henry Gates III is born on October 28th in Seattle, Washington. Popularly known as Bill Gates, his family called him "Trey" when he was little.

1967 - Bill enrolls in the Lakeside School in Seattle and met Paul Allen.

Bill & Paul Allen

1969 - Bill and Paul (a.k.a "Lakeside Programming Group") reports bugs in exchange for computer time.

1972 - Bill and Paul forms Traf-O-Data and develops hardware/software to record highway traffic.

1973 - Bill Gates graduats from Lakeside High and enrolls in Harvard University, where he majors in pre-law.

1974 - Bill Gates and Paul Allen forms Micro-soft.

1975 - Bill and Paul writes the first computer language called BASIC and license it to MITS.

1976 - Bill writes software routines for BASIC on the Altair to use diskettes for storage. Gates writes his famous "Open Letter to Hobbyists", accusing them of software piracy. Bill Gates drops out of Harvard.

1977 - Bill Gates and Paul Allen officially registers a partnership, and Micro-soft becomes Microsoft.

MICROSOFT TEAM

1980 - Tim Paterson begans writing an OS for use on Seattle Computer Products' (SCP) 8086-based computer. IBM repesentatives meet Gates and Steve Ballmer to write the OS for their upcoming computer. They meet again and IBM showed the "Acorn" computer running on an 8-bit 8080 processor. Gates recommends the use of a 16-bit 8086 processor instead and promises an operating system. SCP ships QDOS 0.10 (Quick & Dirty Operating System). Paul Allen approachs SCP and purchased the rights to resell to an unnamed client for $50,000 - IBM. Microsoft propose to be in-charged of IBM's entire software development and convert DOS for IBM's PC.

1981 - Microsoft buys all the rights to SCP's DOS and renames it MS-DOS.IBM introduces its first desktop, Datamaster, which runs on the 16-bit 8086 CPU and Microsoft's MS-DOS.

1983 - Microsoft announces Windows 1.0.

Bill Gates the year Windows 1.0 was released (1985)

1985 - Bill Gates gives keynote speech at Comdex. Microsoft releases Windows 1.0.

1986 - icrosoft is taken public at an IPO price of $21/share. Bill Gates became a billionaire at 31 years old - the yougest person to do so.

1990 - Microsoft releases Windows 3.0 and Microsoft's sales top $1 billion for the first time.

1994 - Bill Gates and Melinda French gets married in Hawaii on January 1st. Bill Gates becomes the richest person in America later in the year.

Bill with Melinda

1995 - Microsoft releases Windows 95 and Bill Gates becomes the richest person in the world.

1996 - Jennifer Katherine Gates is born on April 26th.

1998 - Bill, Melinda and Jennifer move into their new multi-million dollar house in Medina, Washington. Microsoft releases Windows 98.

1999 - Bill's fortunes swell to $90 billion and maintains his position on Forbes list as the wealthiest person alive.

2000 - Microsoft releases Windows 2000 and Windows ME.

2001 - Microsoft releases Windows XP.

Bill Gates playing video games at CES

2002 - Stocks and lawsuits bring Gates' net worth down to $53 billion - still good enough for #1 on Forbes list.

2003 - Microsoft releases Windows Server 2003.

2004 - Microsoft announces a new OS, codenamed Longhorn.

2005 - Longhorn is officially named Windows Vista.

2006 - After numerous delays, Windows Vista is finally released to business users. Microsoft also RTMs Office 2007.

Bill Gates hands over beta 2 of Windows Vista,
Office 2007 and Longhorn Server at WinHEC
2006 in Seattle (2006)

2007 - Bill Gates officiates the public release of Windows Vista in New York's Times Square at midnight on January 30th.

Bill Gates launches Windows Vista and Office 2007
at New York's Times Square