William Henry Gates III (born Octob

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955), commonly known as Bill Gates, is the co-founder and chairman of Microsoft. He is the richest person in the world.
At the age of 13, he wrote his first computer program on this machine: an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer.
He later stated that "it was hard to tear myself away from a machine at which I could so unambiguously demonstrate success.
He was a freshman at Harvard University in 1973
He left Harvard to make software.
Gates started Microsoft in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1981 Gates became Chairman and Chairman of the board of Microsoft.
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond,Washington.
It is the world's largest software maker measured by revenues. It is also one of the world's most valuable companies.
Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for Altair 8800.
It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Microsoft Windows.
The company's 1986 initial public offering, and subsequent rise in its share price, created three billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees.
Since the 1990s, it has increasingly diversified from the operating system market and has made a number of corporate acquisitions.
In May 2011, Microsoft acquired Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion in its largest acquisition to date.