Bill Gates by Aya Masri

                                                            BILL GATES
Biography of Bill Gates

Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle Washington. As the principal founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates is one of the most influential and richest people on the planet.
In recent years he has retired from working full time at Microsoft, and has instead has concentrated on working with his charitable foundation "The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation".


Bill Gates foundation of Microsoft

Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1976 when he formed a contract with MITS ( Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems ) to develop a basic operating system for their new microcomputers.
Microsoft worked hard to sell its operating system to other companies. Thus Microsoft was able to gain the dominant position of software manufacture just as the personal computer market started to boom. Since its early dominance, no other company has come close to displacing Microsoft as the dominant provider of computer operating software.


Bill Gates / WINDOWS

In 1990 Microsoft released its first version of Windows. This was a break through in operating software as it replaced texts interfaces with graphical interfaces. It soon became a best seller and was able to capture the majority of the operating system market share.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer became the dominant web browser although because pre installed on the most new computers and in recent years has seen its market share slip.