William henry gates

Founding of Microsoft
In 1973, Bill Gates entered Harvard University , where he met his future companion, Steve Ballmer . After 2 years, Gates was expelled and immediately began to create software ^[12] . Subsequently, from June 7, 2007, Bill Gates will be considered a graduate of Harvard - the university administration will decide to award him a diploma ^[13] [14] . In the same month he will be awarded an honorary doctorate there ^[15] .
In January 1975, Paul Allen read an article in Popular Electronics magazine about the new Altair 8800 personal computer. After reading the article, Gates contacted Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) president Ed Roberts and told him that he and his friend are working on the software for this computer (although in fact Gates and Allen had nothing to do with the Altair 8800, but they emulated that processor). The President of MITS invited Paul to his office and he demonstrated a working BASIC interpreter .for their computer, and a few weeks later Paul and Bill were working for MITS. They thought of calling their company "Allen and Gates", but felt that it was more suitable for a law office, and then Paul suggested - Micro-Soft, from microprocessors and software. In the credits of the BASIC language interpreter, created by them on the order of MITS, the friends included the following line:
Micro-Soft BASIC: “Paul Allen wrote the supporting codes. Bill Gates wrote the executable codes. Monte Davidoff wrote a mathematical library."
In 1975, Bill was arrested for the first time, for speeding and driving without a driver's license, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After that, he began to swear with the policeman and he was put in a "bad" cell, where there were drunkards and it was not removed. Bill made the required one call to Paul Allen , who raised the last of his money to get Bill out. "Micro-Soft" was created specifically to develop programs for MITS, in Albuquerque. Within a year of working for MITS, the hyphen in Gates and Allen's company name disappeared, and on November 26, 1976, a new trademark "Microsoft" was registered with the New Mexico District Office. Paul got 36% of the company, Bill 64%, basically how Bill saw the contribution to the product.
Since 1975, MITS has distributed Micro-Soft's implementation of the Altair BASIC programming language for the Altair 8800 computer . After the Altair BASIC paper tape was stolen, it was circulated clandestinely in a computer club, causing Gates and Allen not to receive their dues from every copy sold by MITS. In 1976, many US magazines published an open letter to fans of Bill Gates, who in it accused computer scientists of stealing and warned that their actions were demotivating software developers to create new products.
In a joint business, Paul Allen was engaged in technical ideas and promising developments, negotiations, contracts and other business communication turned out to be closer to Gates. And yet, the friends solved the main issues together - sometimes, as Gates later admitted, the disputes continued for 6-8 hours in a row.
In the mid-1970s, the CP/M operating system was the most popular operating system for computers based on the Intel 8080 and Zilog Z80 . In 1977, Microsoft released a new software product - Microsoft FORTRAN for computers with the CP / M operating system.
In 1980, IBM began searching for suitable operating systems for the IBM PC personal computer . The choice fell on PC-DOS (the mother of whose owner, Bill Gates, was the chairman of the executive committee at United Way International , along with two very influential heads of the IBM computer market monster John Opel and John Akers (John Opel, president since 1981, then John Akers, president since 1985), CP/M-86 , and UCSD Pascal P-system IBM offered UCSD Pascal P-system for about $450, CP/M-86 for $175, and MS-DOS for $60.
Microsoft did not have its own operating system for the Intel 8086 processors , so it licensed 86-DOS (QDOS) from Seattle Computer Products, which was a 16-bit clone of CP/M. Later, Microsoft fully bought the rights to 86-DOS and hired its lead engineer Tim Paterson, after which, after working on it, it was fully adapted to IBM personal computers, earning $ 50,000 . This is how the MS-DOS operating system was born and the collaboration between Microsoft and IBM began.
In 1977, Gates was arrested a second time, for running a red light and, again, for driving without a driver's license.
In 1980, Microsoft signed a contract with IBM to develop MS-DOS for IBM. But Microsoft missed the deadline by handing over the source code for faster development to IBM in 1981. This crude system featured a demo game called "DONKEY.BAS" made by Bill Gates and Neil Konzen. "DONKEY.BAS" was a techno-demo of the PC-DOS system and the BASIC language , and is the forerunner of all IBM PC games. In this game you are driving a racing car and you have to avoid donkeys ^[16] . In 2012, this game was re-released for Windows Phone 7.5/8 (free to download) and iOS ($0.99) ^[17] .
Next, Microsoft is working on a completely new operating system, the idea of ​​​​which was spied on by Xerox and Apple . Cooperation with IBM continued and on November 20, 1985, a new operating system, Microsoft Windows , appeared . Thus began the era of Windows - the operating system that glorified and made Gates the richest man in the world.
On January 1, 1994, Gates married Melinda French (Bill first met Melinda in 1987, at a Microsoft press briefing in New York, she had long worked for his company). They have three children - Jennifer Katharine (b. 1996), Rory John (b. 1999) and Phoebe Adele (b. 2002).
On May 3, 2021, Melinda and Bill Gates announced their divorce. On August 2, 2021, the official divorce took place after 27 years of marriage ^[18] .
One of the versions of Bill and Melinda's divorce occurred due to Gates' communication with Jeffrey Epstein ^{[19] [20] [21] [22]} , according to another - because of Bill's dissolute life ^[23] .