Bill Gates Summary

Bill was raised in Seattle and had wealthy parents and was educated very well. He had a good bond with his mother but became more independent as time carried on he was eventually sent to private school where he had access to his first computer and spent many hours on it.He met Paul Allen there and the two became good friends and wrote computer code together they had their ups and downs but were always good to each  other.Bill started his first buisness at 15 with Paul and made $20,000 . He got into Harvard after graduating in 1973 and used their computer labs as much as possible eventually Paul came to see Bill and they went to write code for Altair Personal computers and soon after Bill dropped out of Harvard and started Microsoft.After having some troubles with Altair Bill's mother introduced him to the owner of IBM who wanted microsoft to create a operating system for them which they did but licensed it to IBM so they would have to pay per copy sold with it.Paul was diagnosed with cancer and couldnt help as much with the company so Bill took charge and in 1986 they produced microsoft windows. In 1990 microsoft produced windows 3.0 and didnt have sell only to IBM they could also sell to any other personal computer company because of the smart licensing they did. But unfortunatley in 1994 they had to change the way they sold their products because it wasn;t legal according to the justice system . Also in 1994 he got married and then his mother died from breast cancer which was devastating to Bill.He was the richest man in the world in 1994 and today he is second richest. In 1995 microsoft released windows 95 . Bill has since then released many other types of windows operating systems and has donated millions of dollars to help kids get access to computers and good education.