The Life of bill gates

1.  Name : VEHBİ
 Surname: KILIÇ
 Number : 283991
 Department : Comp. Engineering
 Teacher : KAREN HOWELLS
 School :European University of
Lefke

2. The Life of Bill Gates
Name : BİLL
Surname: GATES
Date of Birth: 28.10.1955
Place of Birth: A.B.D.
Profession: BUSİNESS MAN

3.  Bill Gates is one of the richest men in the world.
He’s also changed the way we live and work.
Gates started Microsoft more than three decades
ago, with the goal of bringing computers into
everyone’s home and onto everyone’s desk.
These days, he’s more focused on giving his
wealth away.

4.  Gates Discovers Love for Software at 13
 Born in October 1955, Bill Gates grew up in Seattle with his
parents, William and Mary Gates and two sisters. He
attended public elementary school and the private Lakeside
School, where he discovered his interest in software. He
was just 13 when he began programming the computer at
the school and was excused from math class to pursue his
interest. The teletype machine was purchased with money
raised by the students’ mothers during a rummage sale.

5.  Gates Becomes a Programming Whiz Kid
 Gates soon became known as a computer expert in high school, and was
part of a group of students who were trying to master the machine.
Among them was Paul Allen, who later co-founded Microsoft with
Gates.
“It was an addiction almost for him and a few others,” his father, William
Gates II, told the BBC. “They spent all [their] time in that little lab
building where the computer was located.”
While in high school, Gates wrote a tic-tac-toe program that allowed
users to play against the computer. At 15, he and Allen made $20,000
after developing a computer program that monitored traffic patterns in
Seattle. Gates graduated from Lakeside School in 1973, and got a 1590 out
of 1600 on the SAT test.

6.  Microsoft is Born
 Gates was attending Harvard in 1975 when childhood
friend Paul Allen showed up with a magazine featuring a
mail-order computer kit. The two wrote a program for
the new computer — the MITS Altair — without ever
having seen one. Allen flew to New Mexico the next day
to show the program to the manufacturers, who were
impressed and made the team an offer.
Gates dropped out of Harvard and he and Allen opened
Microsoft’s first office, in Albuquerque, N.M.

7.  Gates Becomes a Billionaire
 Bill Gates was officially declared a billionaire in Forbes’ 400 Riches
People in America issue in 1987. At the time, he was worth $1.25
billion — $900 million more than the previous year. He was just 32
at the time, making him the world’s youngest self-made billionaire.
Gates has said he is “lucky” he doesn’t have to worry about money.
He told the BBC, “Having a job where you work as hard as I do, it’s
fun, it’s hectic. I wouldn’t trade places with anyone … and it’s not
because of the number, it’s because of the day-to-day activity I
love."

8.  Windows 95 Released
 Bill Gates and Microsoft went all out when they
launched Windows 95 at a big party at the
company’s Redmond, Wash., campus. Most notably,
the fanfare included television commercials featuring
the Rolling Stone’s singing “Start Me Up.” Microsoft
sold 7 million copies in the first five weeks.

9.  Gates Gets His Harvard Degree
 More than three decades after dropping out of college, Bill Gates returned
to Harvard in June 2007 to receive an honorary degree. He also delivered
the commencement speech and challenged the graduates to combat the
world’s most pressing problems.
“I hope you will come back here to Harvard 30 years from now and reflect
on what you have done with your talent and your energy,” Gates told the
graduates. “I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional
accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the
world’s deepest inequities... [and] on how well you treated people a
world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity.”