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Bill Gates Timeline

  • Date of Birth in Seattle, Washington

  • Write the first computer program computer program "Traf - O - Data"

    Gates teamed up with Allen to form a venture called Traf-O-Data, to make traffic counters based on the Intel 8008 processor
  • Enroll into Harvard University

    He graduated from high school in 1973. He enrolled at Harvard College later the same year.
  • Collabrate Microsoft foundation with Paul Allen

  • Write the open letter to hobbyists

  • Microsoft is set up in Albuquerque, New Mexico

  • Microsoft relocated to Bellevue, Washington

  • Microsoft Licensed MS-DOS to IBM

  • Microsoft relocated to Redmond, Washington

  • Microsoft introduced Microsoft Office

    Package integrated several applications like Microsoft Word and Excel into one system that was compatible with all Microsoft products.
  • Microsoft released Window 95

  • Microsoft released Window 98

  • Create Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

  • Bill and Melinda Gates received the Jefferson Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged

  • Get honorary degree from Harvard University

  • Bill Gates awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom