Bill Gates is known to be one of the most famous people in the world. But there are more about him to learn;
- You might not know how the name Microsoft came to existence; it was a combination of two terms from microcomputer and software. In the early time it was name Micro-soft before it was rename “Microsoft”; the exact name its called till today.
- As the its name in the early “Micro-Soft” opened as a business officially in 1976.
- In 1979 Micro-Soft, renamed Microsoft , which was founded by Bill Gates and his high school friend Paul Allen is the co-founder of the technology giant.
- Gates and Paul venture into other business other than Microsoft. They created a computerized machine for processing data from pneumatic traffic counter tubes which is know as Traf-O-Data.
- Do you know that Microsoft BASIC was the first product of Gate which were versions of a programming language.
- The Microsoft actually released its first operating system called Xenix in 1980.
- The invention of Windows 1.0 was in 1985, Its actually sat on top of the MS-DOS OS.
- Do you know that Leicester Codex( a collection of writings Leonardo da Vinci ) was purchased by Bill Gates in 1994. Some of these papers were scanned and included as a screensaver in the Microsoft Plus for Windows 95 CD.
- In 1985 Bill Gate was chosen by Good Housekeeping magazine as one of the “50 Most Eligible Bachelors”
- Since 1993 Bill Gates has being a stable richest being on in the world and claims the top for sixteen good time as richest person on earth .
- Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates run The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a kind of philanthropy organisation. Over time they have given so much to charity.
- In early 70s Bill Gates attended Harvard university but eventually dropped out. In 2007 he received an honorary doctorate from same Harvard university.
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