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William Henry Gates III is born to attorney William Henry Gates II and Mary Gates,he started off at elementary school but His parents, teacher and principal new that he had unique brainpower so his school principal said he should attend a private school so his parents put him in Lakeside school in 1967
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Gates is enrolled in the Lakeside School, an exclusive private school in Seattle, where he befriends Paul Allen.Bill Gates and Paul Allen both share an interest in computers and programming.
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Bill Gates leaves his home in Washington to attend Harvard university where he meets another business partner Steve Ballmer.
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Bill Gates keeps up his great job of work at Harvard university because he's very knowledgable and smart.
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Bill Gates signs up for a job with MITS.
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Bill Gates and Paul Allen register the trademark “Microsoft.” and now work together.
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Bill Gates takes a second leave and sets up his Microsoft software architechery job in Albuquerque, N.M., where MITS is headquartered.
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Bill Gates gains a reputation for being tough, but focused.
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MITS Microsoft headquarters are relocated to Bellevue, Wash., a suburb of Gates’ hometown, Seattle.
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Microsoft incorporates and buys the rights to the operating system “DOS” from Seattle Computer Products.
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Paul Allen leaves Microsoft after developing a disease Microsoft announces Windows as an extension of its MS-DOS operating system.
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Microsoft headquarters move again, this time to nearby Redmond, Wash. Shortly after, the company goes public.
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At age 31, Gates becomes the youngest billionaire ever. He meets his future wife, Melinda French, at a Microsoft event in New York.
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Gates founds Corbis, an company of art and photography from public and private collections. Corbis later becomes a large art collection company.
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The Federal Trade Commission begins an investigation into possible collusion between IBM and Microsoft.
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Bill Gates gets married to Melinda who is from france the couple now share the job and Bill Gates now also works for the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation.
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In July, at age 39 and with a fortune of $12.9 billion, Gates becomes the world’s richest man. Later that summer, Microsoft introduces Internet Explorer to the world, as part of Windows 95.
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Bill Gates flew all the way to Belgium, on his way to meet business and government leaders about his job.
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Bill Gates publishes another best and top-selling book,
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Gates steps down as CEO of Microsoft. Gates’ former Harvard dorm-mate and right-hand man Steve Ballmer takes over the helm, while Gates becomes chief software architect.
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An agreement is reached between the DOJ and Microsoft on November. MGM releases the movie Antitrust, starring Tim Robbins, about a company and character loosely based on Microsoft and Bill Gates.
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Queen Elizabeth II bestows an honorary knighthood on Gates for his contributions to the United Kingdom. Time names him a “Person of the Year,” along with Melinda Gates and Bono, for what the magazine called his “good Samaritan” work.
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Gates announces that his role as an executive at Microsoft will be phased out over the following two years. His intention, he says, is to spend more time working with The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Shortly after his announcement, Warren Buffet donates $31 billion, most of his fortune, to the foundation.
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Gates “graduates” from Harvard; the university awards him with an honorary degree. Gates gives the commencement speech, encouraging the graduates to strive for social change. “Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries,” Gates says to the class, “but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.”
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Though his fortune continues to grow, Gates loses his spot as the richest man on the planet. After 13 years in the No. 1 spot on the Forbes’ list, Gates’ is surpassed by his friend Warren Buffet and Mexican telecom giant Carlos Slim Helu. Gates retires from day-to-day duties at Microsoft on June 27, but stays in the role of chairman and adviser on important development projects.
