There is no person in the modern world who at least once in his life has not experienced using the Windows operating system. Its creator, the world famous American entrepreneur, philanthropist and public figure Bill Gates, deserves to be one of the most recognizable people in all social layers of the population. It is worth noting that, despite worldwide recognition and fame, Gates has not ceased to be a person who donates more than a third of all proceeds to charity.
Childhood
Bill Gates (full name - William Henry Gates III) was born in 1955 on October 28 in the city of Seattle, Washington. Bill's father, William Gates Sr., worked as a corporate lawyer in a local law office. Bill's mother, Mary Maxwell, served on the board of directors of Pacific Northwest Bell, First Interstate Bank, and on the national board of United Way.
The future creator of Windows Bill Gates was a student of one of the most privileged schools in the city of Seattle, where he managed to achieve high results in programming. He used a school mini-computer for these purposes. Young Bill did not like grammar and civil law, just as he applied to other humanitarian subjects.
He justified the lack of interest in the social sciences and humanities by the fact that he considered these disciplines to be mundane and not particularly interesting. But, unlike others, the boy liked mathematics, and he was able to get the highest marks in this difficult subject.
The first difficulties in life
Before graduating from elementary school, Bill began to have problems with behavior and self-control. This fact caused great excitement among parents and teachers. In the end, they had to turn to a psychiatrist.
As Bill Gates himself later told, at that time he was already the creator of Windows 8, his biography in those years took an unexpected turn. He was wildly computer obsessed and missed many lessons in order to sit in a computer class. Quite often, such gatherings lasted until one in the morning, and the average number of hours spent using the device per week ranged from twenty to thirty.
There was a moment when Bill and his friend Paul Allen did an absolutely crazy thing by stealing passwords and breaking the system. For this, the guys were left without a computer, and for the whole summer they were forced to sit idle.
Study at harvard
The future director of the Windows project, the creator of state-of-the-art software, Bill Gates, passed entrance exams in 1973 and entered Harvard. There he made an acquaintance with Steve Ballmer, who is now the CEO of Microsoft Corporation.
Despite his outstanding abilities in the field of mathematics and computer science, Bill did not really like to study, and he often missed pairs while doing programming. At that time, Gates did not stop communicating with Paul Allen. At that time, Paul managed to enter the University of Washington and expel from it, having moved to Boston and started working for Honeywell Corporation.
First success
In 1975, Gates and his friend Paul came across an article in Popular Electronics magazine from which they learned that MITS had created and successfully launched the Altair 8800 computer.
Young people offered MITS the services of writing software for this computer in the Basic language. The result was quite satisfactory for the company, and Paula was hired, and Bill dropped out at Harvard and began actively writing software and starting his own Micro-Soft company. Under this logo, the organization passed state registration in 1976.
Microsoft Windows
The creator of the huge Microsoft company, Bill Gates, made a great contribution to the development of modern technologies in the field of personal computers. In particular, the first sensational OS, MS-DOS, became one of the most prominent multimillionaire projects adapted to the requirements of IBM, which in 1979 proposed to Bill to create an OS for the needs of the world's first PC.
Well, the initial version of the widely known Windows operating system, the creator of which made a lot of efforts to bring it into the world, was presented to the public in 1985. The first name used during development, Interface Manager (literally - the interface manager), was soon replaced by Windows ("Windows"), as it was best suited to describe the "windows" that were used for on-screen calculations and steel The main feature of the new product.
Family life
The future creator of Windows XP Bill Gates in 1994 married Melinda French, whom she first met in 1987 at a Microsoft press briefing in New York. As it turned out, Melinda had long been an employee of the company and, having married her boss, quit her job. Shortly after the wedding, their first daughter was born - Jennifer.
Melinda was actively engaged in charity work. Appearing in public, Bill’s wife never gives interviews to journalists, as her private life is very valuable. The Gates couple already have three children.
Currently, the creator of Windows 7, along with his wife, lives in the so-called "House of the Future", which is located forty thousand square feet off the shore of Lake Washington. The house is crammed with all kinds of modern technologies and its total cost is about forty million dollars.
Development of the latest versions of Windows
Since in 2008, Bill Gates left the position of CEO and took a post on the board of directors, special departments are developing the latest editions of the Windows operating system. Gates himself does not take part in this matter.
In July 2009, Stephen Sinofsky was appointed Vice President of Windows. Better known as the creator of Windows 8, Sinofsky stayed with the company for a relatively short time and left the post and company at the end of 2012. According to information provided by sources from Microsoft, Stephen could not find a common language with other employees of the corporation. Perhaps this is what became the main reason for leaving.
At the end of 2015, Bill Gates for the twenty-second time topped the ranking of the richest people in the United States according to Forbes magazine. His fortune is estimated at an incredible 76 billion dollars. Of these, 13% are shares of Microsoft, the rest of the money is indicated by investments in various enterprises. The largest of them: shares of Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Catepillar and others.
Gates has also gained recognition as the author of two best-selling books. For seven weeks in 1995, his work, The Road Forward, was in first place on the New York Times bestseller list. The second book, “Business at the Speed of Thought,” was released in 1999 and has been translated into twenty-five different languages around the world.