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At 13 he enrolled in the Lakeside School, an exclusive preparatory school. When he was in the eighth grade, the Mothers Club at the school used proceeds from Lakeside School's rummage sale to buy computers.
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He wrote his first computer program on this machine: an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer
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In early 1973, Bill Gates served as a congressional page in the US House of Representatives.
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Gates graduated from Lakeside School in 1973. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SATand enrolled at Harvard College in the autumn of 1973.
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He was arrested in 1975 for speeding in his Porsche without a license and again in 1989 for suspicion of drunk driving.
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Gates took a leave of absence from Harvard to work with Paul Allen at MITS in Albuquerque in November 1975.
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They named their partnership "Micro-Soft" and had their first office located in Albuquerque. Within a year, the hyphen was dropped, and on November 26, 1976, the trade name "Microsoft" was registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico.
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In 1977, at the age of 22, Bill Gates was in Albuquerque, New Mexico when he reportedly ran a stop sign. He was arrested.
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In 1981 an industry executive complained in public that "Gates is notorious for not being reachable by phone and for not returning phone calls."
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Microsoft launched its first retail version of Microsoft Windows on November 20, 1985, and in August, the company struck a deal with IBM to develop a separate operating system called OS/2.
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Gates married Melinda French on January 1, 1994.
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Jennifer Katharine
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Rory John
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Phoebe Adele
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On June 15, 2006, Gates announced that he would transition out of his day-to-day role over the next two years to dedicate more time to philanthropy.