Bill Gates

Bill Gates Biography

Born - October 28, 1955 (1955-10-28) (age 55)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Residence - Medina, Washington
Nationality - American
Occupation - Chairman of Microsoft Chairman of Corbis Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Director of Berkshire Hathaway CEO of Cascade Investment
Religion - Agnostic
Spouse - Melinda Gates

Bill Gates Profile

Bill Gates is an American entrepreneur who is ranked among the wealthiest people in the world. The biography of Bill Gates tells that he was born on October 28 1955 and is currently the chairman of Microsoft. Microsoft was co-founded by him and Paul Allen. He is also famous as a philanthropist and an author. The Bill Gates biography profile says that he was ranked the wealthiest person in the world from 1995 to 2009 except in 2008.

Bill Gates - Early life

The biography of Bill Gates reveals that he is the son of William H. Gates and Mary Maxwell Gates and was born in Seattle Washington. His parents were well-established. He had two sisters Kristi and Libby.
He started going to the Lakeside School when he was thirteen. From his early days he was interested in computer programming.
When he was 17 he joined with Allen to form a venture Traf-O-Data which made traffic counters based on the Intel 8008 processor.
Bill Gates biography profile reveals that in 1973 he took admission into Harvard College with a score of 1590 out of 1600 in SAT.

Bill Gates - Personal Life

Bill gates married Melinda from Texas on January 1 1994. They have three children Jennifer, Rory and Phoebe.

Bill Gates - Career

Bill Gates biography profile states that he along with Allen started developing programming language software for different systems. In 1976 His company Microsoft which was started with Allen in 1975 became independent of MITS who he had previously showed a demonstration of his endeavour.

For a short time form 1980 there was a partnership between Microsoft and IBM for the BASIC interpreter for its personal computer which was soon to be launched.
The biography of Bill Gates revels that the first version of Microsoft Windows was released on November 20 1985. In August Microsoft signed a deal with IBM to work on a separate Operating System OS/2. This partnership was soon called off.

Bill Gates had always been behind the product strategy of Microsoft. Bill Gates biography profile states that he also shot for the ads of Microsoft in 2008 to promote the products which were primarily his brain child.

He resigned from his position as the chief executive officer of Microsoft in January 2000. Post Microsoft Bill Gates biography profile divulges that he has been a philanthropist. He has been part of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation one of the largest charitable institutions of the world.