Bill Gates timeline

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  • Enrolled in Harvard

    Bill Gates was enrolled in Harvard after scoring 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT

  • Created Micro-soft

    While at Harvard, he met his future business partner, Steve Ballmer, whom he later appointed as CEO of Microsoft.

  • Bill Gates writes an open letter to Hobbyists

  • Micro-Soft opens its first International office in Japan

    The company's first international office was founded on November 1, 1978, in Japan, titled "ASCII Microsoft"

  • Microsoft moves headquarters to Bellevue Washington

    Microsoft became independent of MITS in late 1976, and it continued to develop programming language software for various systems.

  • Microsoft partners with IBM to wrtie the BASIC for the IBM PC

    In 1980, IBM approached Microsoft to write the BASIC interpreter for its upcoming personal computer, the IBM PC.

  • Microsoft becomes incorporated and Bill Gates becomes President

    Gates oversaw Microsoft's company restructuring on June 25, 1981

  • Bill Gates founds Corbis

    Corbis Corporation is an American company, based in Seattle, Washington, that sells and otherwise distributes photography and film footage

  • Bill Gates marries Melinda French

    Gates married Melinda French from Dallas, Texas on January 1, 1994. They have three children

  • Bill Gates net worth reaches 94.8 Billion