Bill Gates
(THIS PAPER WAS WRITTEN BY SOMEONE ELSE AND IS ALREADY ON THE DATABASE, I SIMPLY REVISED AND EDITED IT APPROPRIATELY!) ______________________________________________________ By: Aaron Biographical Research Paper April 28, 1997 William Henry Gates, III was born October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington. He was the middle child of three born to William and Mary Gates. ATrey, as he was called because of the III, was sent to a private school by his father, a lawyer, and mother, a former teacher now on several prestigious boards (Moritz, 238). At age 13, Bill had completely taught himself programming after taking a computer studies class. After scoring a perfect 800 on the mathematics half of ...
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hundred thousand dollars richer and were hired by Tandy to develop software for its radio shack computers. Gates and Allen then moved their headquarters to Seattle, Washington. In Seattle, Gates re-wrote an operating system and called it MS-DOS, which stands for Microsoft Disk Operating System. Microsoft would eventually sell the rights of MS-DOS to IBM, making it a major computer corporation. Other computer companies wanted Microsoft to produce software for their computers, including Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak of Apple computers. With the operating system established, Gates and Microsoft set out to create applications software, for tasks such as financial analysis or word processing. Microsoft has continued being successful through the years and will be in the future as long as it keeps innovating new and exciting computer software. has his eye on the future. He sees the world in a powerful, high-speed network, both within companies and across the so called Information ...
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at this time, and so was . He saw the real profitable side of computers was not their hardware. Rather it was the software end of the business. Good software is what makes a computer exciting and easy to use. grabbed this concept and ran with it. The result: As of 1993, Gates was personally worth more than $2 billion, and his company, Microsoft, was valued at more than $7 billion. (Manes, 2) As Microsoft and the software industry grew, the computer hardware manufacturers no longer saw the opportunity to exploit = company, as they had done initially with BASIC, one of the first programs Microsoft produced. Rather, they saw and Microsoft as the Controller of their destinies. ...
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