"Winds": the creator. Bill Gates: Biography

There is no person in the modern world who would have experienced the use of the Windows operating system at least once in his life. Its creator, world-famous American businessman, philanthropist and public figure Bill Gates, deserves to be one of the most recognizable people in all social strata of the population. It is worth noting that, despite the worldwide recognition and fame, Gates has not ceased to be a man who donates more than a third of all proceeds to charity.

Childhood

Bill Gates (full name - William Henry Gates III) was born in 1955 on October 28 in Seattle, Washington. Bill's father, William Gates the Elder, worked as a corporate lawyer at a local law firm. Bill's mother, Mary Maxwell, was on the board of Pacific Northwest Bell, First Interstate Bank, and also in the United Way national council.

The future creator of "Winds" Bill Gates was a student of one of the most privileged schools in Seattle, where he managed to achieve high results in programming. He used for these purposes a school mini-computer. Young Bill did not like grammar and civil law, he also applied to other humanitarian subjects.

Lack of interest in social and human sciences, he justified by the fact that he considered these disciplines commonplace and not particularly interesting. But, unlike others, the boy liked mathematics, and he managed to get the highest marks on this difficult subject.

The first difficulties on the path of life

Before the end of elementary school, Bill began to have problems with behavior and self-control. This fact caused great excitement among parents and teachers. In the end, they had to turn to a psychiatrist.

As Bill Gates himself later said, at that time already the creator of "Windus 8", his biography in those years took an unexpected turn. He was wildly obsessed with computers and skipped many lessons for the sake of sitting in a computer classroom. Quite often, these gatherings lasted until one in the morning, and the average number of hours spent on a device per week was from twenty to thirty.

There was a time when Bill and his friend Paul Allen committed an absolutely insane act, stealing passwords and hacking the system. For this the guys were left without a computer, and for a whole summer they had to sit around.

Studying at Harvard

The future director of the project "Winds", the creator of the most modern software, Bill Gates, in 1973 passed the entrance exams and entered Harvard. In the same place, he got acquainted with Steve Ballmer, who is now the general director of Microsoft Corporation.

Despite his outstanding abilities in the field of mathematics and computer science, Bill did not much like learning, and he often missed couples, while simultaneously doing programming. At that time Gates did not stop talking with Paul Allen. At that point, Paul managed to enter the University of Washington and drop out of it, moving to Boston and starting working for Honeywell.

First success

In 1975, Gates and his friend Paul came across an article in the magazine Popular Electronics, from which they learned that MITS had created and successfully launched the Altair 8800 computer.

Young people offered MITS services for writing software for this computer in the Basic language. The result was completely arranged by the company, and Paul was accepted into staff, and Bill dropped out of Harvard and started to write software and organize his own company Micro-Soft. Under this logo, the organization passed state registration in 1976.

"Microsoft Windows"

The creator of the huge Microsoft company Bill Gates made a great contribution to the development of modern technologies in the field of personal computers. In particular, the first sensational OS, MS-DOS, became one of the most prominent multibillion-dollar projects, adapted to the requirements of IBM, which in 1979 made Bill the proposal to create an OS for the needs of the world's first PC.

Well, the initial version of the well-known operating system "Winds", the creator of which made a lot of efforts for its appearance, was introduced to the public in 1985. The first name used at design time, Interface Manager, was soon replaced by Windows ("Windows"), since it was best suited for describing the "windows" that were used for screen calculations and steel The main feature of the new product.

Family life

The future creator of Windows XP, Bill Gates, married to Melinda French in 1994, who met for the first time in 1987 at a Microsoft press briefing in New York. As it turned out, Melinda had been a member of the company for a long time and, having married her boss, left the job. Soon after the wedding, they had their first daughter, Jennifer.

Melinda actively engaged in charitable activities. Appearing in public, Bill's wife never gives an interview for journalists, since her private life is very valuable. The Gates have already three children.

At the moment, the creator of "Windus 7", together with his wife, lives in the so-called "House of the Future", which is located on forty thousand square feet at the very shore of Lake Washington. The house is packed with all sorts of modern technologies and its total cost is about forty million dollars.

Development of the latest versions of "Windows"

Since back in 2008, Bill Gates left the place of CEO and took a position on the board of directors, the development of the latest editions of the operating system "Windos" are engaged in special departments. Gates himself does not take part in this matter as such.

In July 2009, Stephen Sinofsky was appointed vice-president of Windows. Better known as the creator of "Windus 8", Sinofsky lasted for a relatively short time and left the post and the company in late 2012. According to information provided by sources from Microsoft, Stephen could not find a common language with other employees of the corporation. Perhaps this was the main reason for leaving.

At the end of 2015, Bill Gates already in the twenty-second time topped the rating of the richest people in the US according to Forbes magazine. His fortune is estimated at an incredible $ 76 billion. Of these, 13% are shares of Microsoft, while the rest is money invested in various enterprises. The largest of them: the shares of Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Cappapillar and others.

Gates also received recognition and as the author of two best-sellers. His work "Road ahead" for seven weeks in 1995 was on the first place in the bestseller lists of The New York Times. The second book, "Business at the speed of thought," was published in 1999 and was translated into twenty-five different languages around the world.