Bill Gates William Henry Gates, III was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington. He was the second child of three children of William and Mary Gates. “Trey,” as he was called because of the III, was sent to a private school by his father, a lawyer, and his mother, a former teacher who is now a member of several prestigious boards (Moritz, 238). By age 13, Bill had taught himself programming entirely after taking a computer science course. After scoring a perfect 800 on the math half of the SAT, he graduated from the Lakeside School and enrolled at Harvard University as a pre-law major. As a student, Gates was a marvel. He got an A in an economics class without attending and without cramming the day before the final exam. In June 1975, Bill Gates left Harvard to pursue a career in computing full-time. Later that year, after dropping out of Harvard, he moved to New Mexico. There, he and Allen Kay founded Microsoft to produce their Basic for MITS. Eighteen months later, they were a few hundred thousand dollars richer and were hired by Tandy to develop software for its radio shack computers. Gates and Allen then moved their headquarters to Seattle, Washington. In Seattle, Gates rewrote an operating system and called it MS-DOS, which stands for Microsoft Disk Operating System. Microsoft would eventually sell the rights to MS-DOS to IBM, making it a major computer company. Other computer companies wanted Microsoft to produce software for their computers, including Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak of Apple Computers. Once the operating system was established, Gates and Microsoft decided to create application software, for tasks such as financial analysis or word processing. Microsoft has continued to be successful over the years and will continue to be successful for just as long in the future! it continues to innovate new and exciting computer software. Bill Gates has his eyes on the future. He sees the world in a “powerful, high-speed network, both within businesses and across the so-called information superhighway” (Brandt, 57). He hopes to be on top of the transformation from personal computers to networks. Gates predicts that an explosion of low-cost, high-capacity networks will radically change the way we use technology in the coming decade. Before Bill Gates arrived on the scene in the early '70s, the computing world focused primarily on hardware. Chips, circuit boards, capacitors... middle of paper ...... the hedgehog called Sonic, is the hottest property in the industry.@ In addition to Sega, AMr. Gates also discussed with Time Warner and TCI the creation of a company, known as CableSoft, which would set standards for interactive television.@(The Economist, 73)Bill Gates and his company Microsoft were leading the rapidly evolving IT industry for much of its existence. If profit margins and stock prices continue to grow and Microsoft products remain household names, the duo will remain in this position in the future.Bibliography1. Manes, Stephen; Andrews, Paul; Gates - How the Microsoft mogul reinvented an industry - and became the richest man in America. Doubleday 19932. AA Trojan hedgehog@, The Economist. January 22, 1994, p.73-743. “Noon for Billy the Kid?” @, The Economist. June 24, 1995, P.59-604. Bitter, Gary G. AWillian H. Gates.@ Macmillan Encyclopedia of Computers. Macmillan Editions: New York, NY, 1992, P.409-410.5. Brandt, Richard. ABill Gate's vision. @BusinessWeek. June 27..237-241.