In 1990 Microsoft released its first version of Windows. Since its early dominance no other company has come close to displacing Microsoft as the dominant provider of computer operating software. Thus Microsoft was able to gain the dominant position of software manufacture just as the personal computer market started to boom. Microsoft worked hard to sell its operating system to these other companies. However increasingly there developed many IBM PC clones (PCs developed by other companies compatible with IBM’s). In the early 1980s IBM was by far the leading PC manufacture. The big break for Microsoft came in 1980 when IBM approached them for a new BASIC operating system for its new computers. He was also involved in several aspects of Microsoft’s business such as packing and sending off orders. In the early days Bill Gates would review every line of code. In recent years he has retired from working full time at Microsoft, instead he has concentrated on working with his charitable foundation “The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation”Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1976 when he formed a contract with MITTS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) to develop a basic operating system for their new microcomputers.
Recent estimates of his wealth put it at $56 billion, this is the equivalent of the combined GDP of several African economies. William Henry Gates was born on Octoin Seattle, Washington)Īs founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates is one of the most influential and richest people on the planet.
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