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When Bill Gates was born
This is when Bill Gates was born. Who knew he would become the owner of one of the largest businesses, Microsoft. HIs full name is William Bill H. Gates.He was born in Seattle, Washington. -
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The amazing life of Bill Gates
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Bill began to show interest
Some where in 1968 Bill Gates began to show interest in computers. This was when his school got a Teletype machine. Bill helped his teachers with the machine with a BASIC program. He even made a program for Tic-Tac-Toe. This was the start of a great passion. -
Bill makes Traf-O-Data
Bill creates Traf-O-Data when he is a young teenager. His age when he made it is unknown but, this proves he was intrested in technology and computer programming. He did this at Seatlte. It counted traffic. -
Bill starts college
Sometime in the fall of 1973, Bill Gates enrolls in Harvard College. Before he went to college, in his elementary school and high school, Bill was bored of school and it wasn't hard enough for him. But, when he went to Harvard; He got the crave he was looking for. However, he later drops out to pursue Microsoft. -
Altair makes an offer
Somewhere in January 1975 Altair made a Bill Gates an unknown offer and Bill used this to start Micro-soft later. (The hyphen was gone in about a year.) Altair made this offer to Bill at an unknown location. Bill took the offer to pursue his dream of Microsoft. -
He starts Microsoft
Bill Gates drops out of Harvard College on an unknown date but, shortly after Allen was given a job for the MITS Bill left Harvard to work with him. He then traveled to Albuquerque, to join his friend and they started a business called Micro-soft. Which later becomes Microsoft. -
Bill became a billionaire
Just before he turned 32 Bill Gates became a billionaire when his stock rised to $90.75 a piece. He is on the top or near the top of the Forbes' 400 list of wealthiest people. This happened at his business. This happened in the 1987 some time. -
Allen leaves!
Oh no! Allen retires from Microsoft and Bill is saddened. Allen was his best friend and second in comand to Bill. Bill knew that he must focus on his company. This was very hard for Bill. This happened at a year when Allen got cancer. An unknown day. -
Microsoft releases Windows!
Somewhere in1990, Microsoft released Windows 3.0. This version had new applications back then like paintbrush and Solitaire. Also includes a very advanced hypertext help system. This is at his business when he made it. It was made in some time in the 1990s -
He gets married
He marries Melinda French on January 1, 1994. They later have 3 children.Jennifer Katharine and Phoebe Adele are their daughters and Rory John is their son. They later create Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. -
Giving it Back
Sometime around 1994, Bill and Melinda create a foundation for the less fortunate. This is for the education world health and for communities with a small amount of money. They made a $28 million contribution for this foundation. This is at an unknown location. -
Bill steps down!
Bill Gates steps down to the chairman of Microsoft. He steps down so he can focus on his life with Melinda and his kids. He also focuses on the BIll and Melinda Gates foundation. This is on an unknown date. -
Bill writes a book
Sometime in 1999, Bill published a book to show people how technology can help businesses. It was called Business @ the speed of thought. This is important because it showed how he was trying to help businesses. -
Google the enemy
On an unknown date, Google became Microsofts main enemy or competitor. They are also a pretty recent enemy for Microsoft. Microsoft probally banned its employees from using Google. -
Mao got outvoted by Bill!
Sometime in 2002, Bill Gates was thought more idolized than Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung by a group of teenagers in Hong Kong and China. The survey was conducted by the City University of Hong Kong. Just wow!
