Bill Gates' Profile/Timeline:
1955 - William Henry Gates III was born on October 28th in Seattle, Washington
1955 - Popularly known as Bill Gates, his family called him "Trey" when he was little
1967 - Bill enrolled in the Lakeside School in Seattle and met Paul Allen
1969 - Bill and Paul (a.k.a "Lakeside Programming Group") reported bugs in exchange for computer time
1972 - Bill and Paul formed Traf-O-Data and developed hardware/software to record highway traffic
1973 - Bill Gates graduated from Lakeside High and enrolled in Harvard University, where he majored in pre-law
1974 - Bill Gates and Paul Allen formed Micro-soft
1975 - Bill and Paul wrote the first computer language called BASIC and licensed it to
MITS
1976 - Bill wrote software routines for BASIC on the Altair to use diskettes for storage
1976 - Gates wrote his famous "Open Letter to Hobbyists", accusing them of software piracy
1976 - Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard
1977 - Bill Gates and Paul Allen officially registers a partnership, and Micro-soft became
Microsoft
1980 - Tim Paterson begans writing an OS for use on Seattle Computer Products' (SCP)
8086-based computer
1980 - IBM repesentatives met Gates and Steve Ballmer to write the OS for their upcoming computer
1980 - They met again and IBM showed the "Acorn" computer running on an 8-bit 8080 processor
1980 - Gates recommended the use of a 16-bit 8086 processor instead and promised an operating system
1980 - SCP ships QDOS 0.10 (Quick & Dirty Operating System)
1980 - Paul Allen approached SCP and purchased the right to resell to an unnamed client for $50,000 - IBM
1980 - Microsoft proposed to be in-charged of IBM's entire software development and convert DOS for IBM's PC
1981 - Microsoft bought all the rights to SCP's DOS and renamed it MS-DOS
1981 - IBM introduced its first desktop, Datamaster, which ran on the 16-bit 8086 CPU
and Microsoft's MS-DOS
1983 - Microsoft announced Windows 1.0
1985 - Bill Gates gave keynote speech at Comdex
1985 - Microsoft released Windows 1.0
1986 - Microsoft is taken public at an IPO price of $21/share
1986 - Bill Gates became a billionaire at 31 years old - the yougest person to do so
1990 - Microsoft released Windows 3.0 and Microsoft sales topped $1 billion for the first time
1994 - Bill Gates and Melinda French got married in Hawaii on January 1st
1994 - Bill Gates becomes the richest person in America
1995 - Microsoft released Windows 95 and Bill Gates became the richest person in the world
1996 - Jennifer Katherine Gates was born on April 26th
1998 - Bill, Melinda and Jennifer moved into their new multi-million dollar house in
Medina, Washington
1998 - Microsoft releases Windows 98
1999 - Bill's fortunes swell to $90 billion and maintains his position on Forbes list as the wealthiest person alive
2000 - Microsoft releases Windows 2000 and Windows ME
2001 - Microsoft releases Windows XP
2002 - Stocks and lawsuits bring his Gates' net worth down to $53 billion - still good enough for #1 on Forbes list
2003 - Microsoft releases Windows Server 2003
2006 - Microsoft releases Windows Vista?
1955 - William Henry Gates III was born on October 28th in Seattle, Washington
1955 - Popularly known as Bill Gates, his family called him "Trey" when he was little
1967 - Bill enrolled in the Lakeside School in Seattle and met Paul Allen
1969 - Bill and Paul (a.k.a "Lakeside Programming Group") reported bugs in exchange for computer time
1972 - Bill and Paul formed Traf-O-Data and developed hardware/software to record highway traffic
1973 - Bill Gates graduated from Lakeside High and enrolled in Harvard University, where he majored in pre-law
1974 - Bill Gates and Paul Allen formed Micro-soft
1975 - Bill and Paul wrote the first computer language called BASIC and licensed it to
MITS
1976 - Bill wrote software routines for BASIC on the Altair to use diskettes for storage
1976 - Gates wrote his famous "Open Letter to Hobbyists", accusing them of software piracy
1976 - Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard
1977 - Bill Gates and Paul Allen officially registers a partnership, and Micro-soft became
Microsoft
1980 - Tim Paterson begans writing an OS for use on Seattle Computer Products' (SCP)
8086-based computer
1980 - IBM repesentatives met Gates and Steve Ballmer to write the OS for their upcoming computer
1980 - They met again and IBM showed the "Acorn" computer running on an 8-bit 8080 processor
1980 - Gates recommended the use of a 16-bit 8086 processor instead and promised an operating system
1980 - SCP ships QDOS 0.10 (Quick & Dirty Operating System)
1980 - Paul Allen approached SCP and purchased the right to resell to an unnamed client for $50,000 - IBM
1980 - Microsoft proposed to be in-charged of IBM's entire software development and convert DOS for IBM's PC
1981 - Microsoft bought all the rights to SCP's DOS and renamed it MS-DOS
1981 - IBM introduced its first desktop, Datamaster, which ran on the 16-bit 8086 CPU
and Microsoft's MS-DOS
1983 - Microsoft announced Windows 1.0
1985 - Bill Gates gave keynote speech at Comdex
1985 - Microsoft released Windows 1.0
1986 - Microsoft is taken public at an IPO price of $21/share
1986 - Bill Gates became a billionaire at 31 years old - the yougest person to do so
1990 - Microsoft released Windows 3.0 and Microsoft sales topped $1 billion for the first time
1994 - Bill Gates and Melinda French got married in Hawaii on January 1st
1994 - Bill Gates becomes the richest person in America
1995 - Microsoft released Windows 95 and Bill Gates became the richest person in the world
1996 - Jennifer Katherine Gates was born on April 26th
1998 - Bill, Melinda and Jennifer moved into their new multi-million dollar house in
Medina, Washington
1998 - Microsoft releases Windows 98
1999 - Bill's fortunes swell to $90 billion and maintains his position on Forbes list as the wealthiest person alive
2000 - Microsoft releases Windows 2000 and Windows ME
2001 - Microsoft releases Windows XP
2002 - Stocks and lawsuits bring his Gates' net worth down to $53 billion - still good enough for #1 on Forbes list
2003 - Microsoft releases Windows Server 2003
2006 - Microsoft releases Windows Vista?
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