It was number one on the New York Times best seller list for seven weeks, and it was published in more than 20 countries. The book predicts what will happen to information technology in the future. In 1995, Bill Gates wrote a book called ‘The Road Ahead’. In 1997, the Gates Foundation gave away more than 90$ million to about 6,000 libraries so that poor people can use computers too. In 1995, Gates gave away $60 million in free computer software.
To $22.96 billion, and now Microsoft employs more than 39,000 people in 60Ī lot of the money has been given away to charity, especially for world health ($2.5 billion) and learning ($1.4 billion). In 1975, Microsoft made a profit of $16,005. The first version of Windows was introducedĪ year later, and by1993 a million copies per month were being sold. When Microsoft first started, Bill Gates and Paul Allen predicted aĬomputer on every desk and in every home, all of them using Microsoft He left Harvard early to develop Microsoft, which had been started by Gates and his friend Paul Allen.īill developed the Microsoft Disc Operating System (MS-DOS) He went to Harvard University, and there he developed the BASIC programming language for the first microcomputer- the MITSĪltair. He went to a private school and started programming computers when he was thirteen years old. His father was a lawyer and his mother was a school teacher. Bill Gates was born the same year Albert Einstein died, in 1955.
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