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Management and Change, Bill Gates

William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman and chief software architect of

Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in software, services and

Internet technologies for personal and business computing. Microsoft

had revenues of US$32.19 billion for the fiscal year ending June

2002, and employs more than 50,000 people in 72 countries and

regions.

Born on Oct. 28, 1955, Gates grew up in Seattle with his two sisters.

Their father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. Their late

mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington

regent, and chairwoman of United Way International.

The birth of Microsoft

A. The idea

In December of 1974, his …show more content…

The code for the program

was left mostly up to Bill Gates while Paul Allen began working on a

way to simulate the Altair with the schools PDP-10.

When they both felt their program was ready. Allen was to fly to MITS

and show off their creation. The day after Allen arrived at MITS, it

was time to test their BASIC. Entering the program into the company's

Altair was the first time Allen had ever touched one. If the Altair

simulation he designed or any of Gates's code was faulty, the

demonstration would most likely have ended in failure.

B. The start

In the Spring of 1968, the Lakeside prep school decided that it

should acquaint the student body with the world of computers

[Teamgates.com, 9/29/96]. Computers were still too large and costly

for the school to purchase its own. Instead, the school had a fund

raiser. A few thousand dollars were raised which the school figured

would buy more than enough time to last into the next school year.

In 1968, Computer Center Corporation opened for business in Seattle.

It was offering computing time at good rates, and one of the chief

programmers working for the corporation had a child attending

Lakeside. A deal was struck between Lakeside Prep School and the

Computer Center Corporation that allowed the school to continue

providing it's students with computer time.

Gates and his comrades immediately began

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