William Bill H. Gates

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Bill Gates is the man behind Microsoft Corporation, the leading provider of computer software for personal computers.

Gates was born in October 28, 1955. He and his two sisters grew up in Seattle. Their father William H. Gates II, was and still is a Seattle attorney.
Gates attended public elementary school but later he began in a private school. At the private school he began programming software for computers.

In 1973, when Gates was 18 years old, he entered Harvard University. At the years of Harvard Gates came in contact with a new computer which any person could buy, well that was what they said anyway.
In 1975 Gates dropped out of school to devote his life to computers. He started a company called Microsoft the same year. He saw his chance, when anybody could buy a computer he also thought that anyone should be able to use them. Bill Gates and Microsoft made their first product, they developed the computer language called BASIC and made it more advanced but more simple for the users. In 1980 the big computer company IBM asked Gates to help them with their operation system for their personal computers. He made Microsoft disk operation system, MS-DOS. Over 2 millions of copies were sold of MS-DOS by 1984 and by 1990 Microsoft had sold over one hundred million copies.

In 1986 Microsoft introduced their next product, it was called Windows and was the easiest operating system on the market. Their next product was Windows 95 which was realised in 1995, later on came Windows 98 the newest OS from Microsoft is called Windows XP.

Almost every computer in the world is using a product made by Microsoft today. Their operation system is their biggest product but they also make other programs like Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer.


The internet explorer monopoly issue

There has been allot of talk about Microsoft having a monopoly and are making it hard for other companies to grow. And all of this is true. Microsoft is a big company and almost has monopoly. In 1991 the US government started investigating Microsoft and found that the company was so big that their was no room for competition in the computer business. In 1994 Microsoft promised to give the other computer companies in the computer business more opportunities for competition. The same year a company called Netscape releases their browser called Navigator (A browser is the computer program that we use when we surf the world wide web on internet). The following year Microsoft releases their own browser which is called Internet Explorer. Internet explorer is integrated in their operation system. Since most computer users use Microsoft’s operating system windows they can’t choose not too use it. When they did this the ministry of justice in the United States sued Microsoft because they broke their promise from 1994.
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