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Bill Gates
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Bill Gates came from a family of entrepreneurship and high-spirited liveliness. William Henry Gates III was
born in Seattle, Washington on October 28th, 1955. His father, William H. Gates II, is a
Seattle attorney. His late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University
of Washington regent, and chairwoman of United Way
International.
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He had an early interest in software and began programming computers at the age of thirteen. In 1973, Bill Gates became a student at Harvard University, where he meet
Steve Ballmer (now Microsoft's chief executive officer). While still a
Harvard undergraduate, Bill Gates wrote a version of the programming language BASIC for the MITS Alatair
microcomputer.
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In 1975, before graduation Gates left Harvard to form Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul
Allen. The pair planned to develop software for the newly emerging personal computer
market.
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Bill Gate's company Microsoft became famous for their computer
operating systems and killer business deals. For example, Bill
Gates talked IBM into letting Microsoft retain the licensing
rights to MS-DOS an operating system, that IBM needed for their
new personal computer. Gates proceeded to make a fortune from
the licensing of MS-DOS.
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On November 10, 1983, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City,
Microsoft Corporation formally announced Microsoft windows,
a next-generation operating system.
On January 1, 1994, Bill Gates married Melinda French Gates.
They have three children.
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Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, have endowed the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
with more than $28.8 billion (as of January 2005) to support philanthropic initiatives in
the areas of global health and learning.
Bill Gates Philanthropist