Life and work of Bill Gates

By ptetec

  • Birth

    Bill Gates was born in Seattle.

  • Started programming

    He wrote his first computer program on a computer: an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer

  • College

    Enrolled at Harvard Unversity after scoring 1590 out of 1600 on the Scholastic Aptitude Tests.

  • Starting business

    Dropped out of Harvard, partnered with Paul Allen and together they started their own software company.

  • IBM partnership

    IBM approached Microsoft regarding its upcoming personal computer and asked for an acceptable operating system.

  • Windows

    Microsoft launched its first retail version of Microsoft Windows.

  • Marriage

    Gates married Melinda French in Hawaii.

  • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

    Gates and his wife combined three family foundations to create the charitable Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.