William Henry Gates III
William Henry Gates III Son of William Henry Gates Jr. and Mary Maxwell. He has English, German, Scottish, and Irish ancestry. Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington. He was the founder of Microsoft in 1975 along with Paul Allen, a partner in the creation of programming languages. Microsoft in 1975, when it was founded, had just three employees (one of them was Gates) and had revenues of just $16,000. At Harvard in 1975, he teamed up with Allen to develop a version of the BASIC programming language for the Altair, the first personal computer. In 1977 he dropped out of Harvard to devote himself entirely to his company. Microsoft also created word processors, such as Microsoft Word for IBM PCs. They also developed a software application for the Apple Macintosh before the first Mac was released in 1984. On June 27, 2008, he left his position at the head of Microsoft, giving control of the company to Steve Ballmer, to dedicate himself to the Bill and Melinda Gates
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