October 1955 Bill Gates is born. Shortly after 9 PM in Seattle Washington, William (Bill) Henry Gates III was born to William H. II and Mary Maxwell Gates. His unique brainpower and curiosity for technology were discovered early in childhood.
January 1967 Bill Gate’s education
Gates is enrolled in the Lakeside School, a distinct private faculty in Seattle, wherein he befriends Paul Allen. bill Gates and Paul Allen both share a hobby in computer systems and programming.
June 1969 First Computer Program
Gates took a hobby in programming the GE system in simple. At age 13, he wrote his first computer program on a computer, which was an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer.
February 1973 Enrolls in Harvard University
After graduating from Lakewood School, being a National Merit Scholar, and scoring 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT, Gates was enrolled in Harvard University where he studied. pre-law influenced by his father. But later his focus shifted toward computers and programming.
May 1975 Calls MITS for a job
Bill Gates signs up for a job with MITS from his dorm room to develop software for the MITS. Altair starting his journey of programming. He later marks his first absence from school, dropping out in the same year to start working on the software venture he refers to as Micro-Soft.
May 1976 Registers Microsoft trademark
Gates and Allen registered the trademark “Microsoft.” Gates writes an open letter to computer hobbyists, condemning the early adopters for sharing, rather than paying for, software.
April 1977 Setting up Microsoft
Gates takes a 2nd depart of absence from Harvard and sets up Microsoft in Albuquerque, N.M., where MITS is headquartered. Microsoft’s year-end sales exceeded $1 million in 1978, gaining Bill a reputation for being tough, but focused.
In August 1981 Microsoft launched the MS-DOS system
Microsoft carries and buys the rights to the operating system. “DOS” from Seattle Computer Products and provides its license to IBM. Following this in 1983, Allen left Microsoft after developing.
Hodgkin’s disease and Microsoft announces Windows as an extension of its MS-DOS operating system.
November 1985 Microsoft Windows and IBM
Bill launched the first retail version of Microsoft Windows. In August of the following year, Microsoft struck a deal with IBM to develop a separate operating system. called OS/2. However, the partnership deteriorated due to creative differences.
November 1987 Youngest Billionaire in the World
At age 31, Gates will become the youngest billionaire ever. He meets his future spouse, Melinda French, at a Microsoft occasion in New York the same year.
September 1989 Emergence of Corbis
Gates found Corbis, an archive of art and photography from public and private collections. Corbis later became one of the largest collections of visual information in the global.
September 1990 Bill vs State
The Federal Trade Commission began an investigation into collusion between IBM and Microsoft for divvying up the market. for operating systems in an anti-competitive way. The matter was later settled in 1994.
In March 1994 Gates married Melinda
Bill Gates and Melinda French got married in 1994, on a golf course on the Hawaiian island of Lanai. They had three children together: Jennifer, Rory, and Phoebe. In the same year, they founded. one of the largest private foundations in the world Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
July 1995 Richest Man Alive
At age 39 and with a fortune of $12.9 billion, Gates becomes the arena’s richest man. Later that summer in 1995, Microsoft introduced Internet Explorer to the world, as part of Windows 95. Gates begins to shift Microsoft’s focus toward the emerging Internet.
May 1998 Microsoft faces Lawsuit
The U.S. Justice Department charges Microsoft with engaging in anticompetitive. and exclusionary practices designed to keep its monopoly in personal. computer operating structures and to extend that monopoly to net browsing software.
May 2000 Steps down as Microsoft CEO
Gates steps down as CEO of Microsoft. Gates’ former Harvard dorm-mate and point of reference. Steve Ballmer takes over the helm, while Gates becomes chief software architect.
July 2005 Honoring Bill Gates
Queen Elizabeth II bestows an honorary knighthood on Gates for his contributions. to the United Kingdom. Time names him an “individual of the year,” alongside Melinda Gates and Bono, for what the mag referred to as his “precise Samaritan” paintings.
December 2007 Graduates Harvard University
Gates “graduates” from Harvard after dropping out; the university awards him with an honorary degree. Gates offers the commencement speech, encouraging the graduates to strive for social trade. “Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries,” Gates says to the class, “but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.”
February 2014 Microsoft to Philanthropy
Gates stepped down as Chairman of Microsoft and currently serves as an advisor to support the CEO. Satya Nadella. He dedicated himself to the Bill & Melinda Foundation and focused on global issues of Climate Change, Global Health and Development, and education.
March 2020 All I care about is the World!
Bill Gates is currently the 4th richest in the world with a worth of $123 Billion. On March 13, 2020, Gates left his board position at Berkshire Hathaway and Microsoft to dedicate himself to his philanthropic endeavors.
In 2011 Gates says,
“If you gave me the choice between picking the next 10 presidents or ensuring.
that the energy is environmentally friendly and a quarter as costly, I would pick the energy thing.”