How Did Bill Gates Change The World

William Henry Gates the third was born on October 28th, 1955, Seattle Washington. His parents were William H. Gates, Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates. Gates is an investor, computer programmer, and inventor. Gates dropped out of college and co-founded a company in 1976, called Microsoft with his good friend Paul Allen. This company later became the largest PC software company on earth. Gates had many positions during his career at Microsoft. He was CEO, chairman, and chief software architect.
Microsoft had a big break in 1980 when the company IBM came up to them for a new operating system for all of the new computers. Microsoft became one of the main software manufacturing companies, just as the market for personal computers started to rise. This is what Gates had been predicting what would happen, that every home would have a computer per household. Since Microsoft had no competitions with any other company when it first launched, no one has come near to over running Microsoft. Microsoft released the first version of Windows in 1990. This was a huge breakthrough for Microsoft. This software had graphical interfaces instead of text interfaces. This
Gates being affected by this, starting making a philanthropic organization that fought specific causes, and pursued the same interest that Gates mom had. Windows 95 was made in 1995. Gates slowed down his life with Microsoft, due to having his first daughter with Melinda French, his wife.
Bill Gates completely changed how the world operates and functions. Gates made life a lot easier for everyone to live in. He made tasks get done within seconds, and created many multitasking software programs. Gates will always be known as a business man, investor, and philanthropist. Gates with many products released with his company, changed the field of computers and made the market more compatible. Gates was always setting the bar higher, and had many endless