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Bill Gates had an early interest in computers and began programming at age 13. He co-founded Microsoft in 1975 with Paul Allen before graduating from Harvard. Microsoft became famous for its operating systems like MS-DOS and Windows, with the first version of Windows being announced in 1983. Bill Gates married Melinda French Gates in 1994 and they have three children. Through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates and his wife have donated over $28 billion to philanthropic causes in global health and learning.

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Bill Gates

Bill Gates had an early interest in computers and began programming at age 13. He co-founded Microsoft in 1975 with Paul Allen before graduating from Harvard. Microsoft became famous for its operating systems like MS-DOS and Windows, with the first version of Windows being announced in 1983. Bill Gates married Melinda French Gates in 1994 and they have three children. Through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates and his wife have donated over $28 billion to philanthropic causes in global health and learning.

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Adnan Azhar

Roll No. 06

Microsoft Windows

Bill Gates - Early Life

He had an early interest in software and began programming computers at the


age of thirteen. In 1973, Bill Gates became a student at Harvard University,
where he meet Steve Ballmer (now Microsoft's chief executive officer). While
still a Harvard undergraduate, Bill Gates wrote a version of the programming
language BASIC for the MITS Altair microcomputer.

Did you know that as young teenagers Bill Gates and Paul Allen ran a small
company called Traf-O-Data and sold a computer to the city of Seattle that
could count city traffic?

Bill Gates & Microsoft

In 1975, before graduation Gates left Harvard to form Microsoft with his
childhood friend Paul Allen. The pair planned to develop software for the
newly emerging personal computer market.

Bill Gate's company Microsoft became famous for their computer operating
systems and killer business deals. For example, Bill Gates talked IBM into
letting Microsoft retain the licensing rights to MS-DOS an operating system,
that IBM needed for their new personal computer. Gates proceeded to make a
fortune from the licensing of MS-DOS.

On November 10, 1983, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, Microsoft
Corporation formally announced Microsoft Windows, a next-generation
operating system.

On January 1, 1994, Bill Gates married Melinda French Gates. They have three
children.

Bill Gates Philanthropist

Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, have endowed the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation with more than $28.8 billion (as of January 2005) to support
philanthropic initiatives in the areas of global health and learning.

MS DOS The Operating System History

From a Quick and Dirty Operating System a giant walks (ms-dos), in 1980,
IBM first approached Bill Gates and Microsoft, to discuss the state of home
computers and Microsoft products.

In 1980 Microsoft won a contract with IBM to operate personal computers


using Microsoft's system, commonly known as MS-DOS. By 1983 the IBM PC
had become the industry standard and MS-DOS was its operating system. In
1995, Microsoft introduced Windows 95 which again revolutionized the PC
market, and became an industry standard.

Windows 1.0 To Windows Beyond 2000

Windows is the graphical user interface for IBM and IBM compatible
machines, this article discusses the origins of Windows and where Windows is
heading.
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