Bill Gates and Microsoft

By Cathy Leyva

  • Bill Gates is Born

  • Bill Gates creates his first software

    Bill gates completes his first software at age 13

  • Bill Gates starts at Harvard

    Bill Gates started his college career and started working on other forms of computers

  • Bill Gates drops out of Harvard

    Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard after focusing on minicomputers

  • Microsoft releases their first project

    Microsoft released the version of BASIC that Gates worked on while at Harvard

  • Microsoft is founded by Bill Gates

    Bill Gates and Paul Allen form Microsoft

  • Microsoft releases MS-DOS

    Microsoft released their first operating system that was fully text based for IBM.

  • Windows 1 is released

    The first version of Microsoft Windows is released and worked well with MS-DOS

  • Microsoft goes IPO

    Microsoft became public and made Bill Gates millions of dollars

  • Bill Gates becomes a billionaire

  • Microsoft hits $1 billion in sales

    They were the first software company to achieve this

  • Microsoft office is released

    Microsoft office allowed people to maximize their productivity with their technology

  • Windows 95 is released

    This was the first massive overhaul of the operating system

  • MSNBC is created

    Microsoft and NBC created MSNBC that was an operating system targeted for PDAs and other mobile devices

  • Bill Gates leaves his CEO position

    Bill Gates gave the CEO position to Steve Ballmer and has more of a hands off approach