This is the story about Bill Gates and the evolution of Microsoft Corporation. It details how he turned Microsoft into the largest software company in the world. How did this Harvard dropout become the youngest self-made billionaire in history?.
The Young Bill Gates.
It is impossible to write about the history of Microsoft without mentioning the name of Bill Gates, the founder and leader of Microsoft Corporation. Bill Gates was born William Henry Gates III on October 28, 1955. Raised in Seattle, Washington, in a family with a rich history in business, politics, and community service, he led a comfortable upper middle class life. In elementary school, Bill Gates excelled, especially in the subjects of math and science. In 1968, his parents enrolled him in The Lakeside Prep School, where the atmosphere was intellectual enough to stimulate him. .
Discovering a love for computers.
Attending Lakeside was a pivotal to his future because it was there that he discovered computers. At that time, computers were too large and expensive for the school to purchase one of its own so the school had a fundraiser and bought computer time from various corporations. Bill Gates, his friend Paul Allen and a few other students quickly took to computing. In fact, they began to skip classes, turning in their homework late, and using up all of the school's computer time rather quickly. Since one of the chief programmers of Computer Center Corporation had a child enrolled in the school, a deal was made to provide computer time to Lakeside's students.
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They started to hack Computer Center's system, and altered and crashed valuable files until they were banned from the computer. Soon, however, Bill and his friends were actually hired by the computer company to find bugs and explore weaknesses in the system, which kept causing the computers to crash. Instead of paying the boys for their services, they were given unlimited computer time.
"The company is Microsoft Corp. ... "Microsoft just isn't the phenomenon it used to be. ... Competing with the likes of Microsoft and Yahoo. ... (YHOO) and Microsoft's (MSFT) Hotmail (Business Week, April 2004)". ... "The threats it faces are among the most serious in Microsoft's history. ...
Microsoft is an American multinational computer technology corporation founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. ... (Microsoft, n.d) Microsoft makes Windows, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, MSN and Xbox 360. (History of Microsoft, n.d) Its head quarter is located in Redmond, Washington, United State of American. ... (Microsoft, n.d) Since year 1993, Microsoft Corporation launched its first Windows, named as Windows NT. ... (Microsoft corporation history, n.d) During year 2011, Microsoft had introduced forced ranking evaluation system to establish a clear link between performance and compen...
(http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Gates.Mirick.html#microsoft) He is now the Chairman and chief software architect for, the worldwide leader in software, Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft's mission has been to continually advance and improve software technology, and to make it easier, more cost-effective and more enjoyable for people to use computers. ... Almost everything I think about relates to computers ending June of 2003 Microsoft had revenues of 32.19 billion dollars. ...
In order to understand what is going on in the trial, you need to know the history of Microsoft. Without knowing the history of Microsoft, there would be no way of forming an accurate opinion of whether Microsoft should be broken up or not. ... In 1977, Microsoft released its second language product, Microsoft FORTRAN. ... In 1991 Microsoft and IBM went separate ways. ... Microsoft chose to stick with Windows....
That is why Microsoft is among the top rated technology leaders. The risk Microsoft took was huge. ... There were no serious threats to Microsoft; however, to insure success of these products, Microsoft employed an additional tactic. ... This proved to be the single most strategic victory in the history of computing technology. Did the risk pay off for Microsoft? ...
Gates III and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in 1975. ... In 1996 Microsoft debuted Windows CE, a scaled-down version of the Microsoft Windows platform designed for use with handheld personal computers. ... The federal antitrust trial against Microsoft began in October 1998. ... Microsoft announced it would appeal the judge's decision. ... Microsoft has cited many instances of Judge Jackson belittling the company. ...
However, throughout most of its recent history Microsoft has been subject to continual government investigation; an inquiry that ultimately led to the United States" suit against Microsoft for violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. ... This paper is not intended to provide an opinion on the Microsoft Case, but instead present the two perspectives from the U.S. government and Microsoft. ... CASE OVERVIEW Although the Microsoft case in its current form officially began in 1996, Microsoft has been under the scrutiny of the federal government since 1990. ... In addition, the FTC was a...
Microsoft vs. ... Microsoft first became involved with the United States government in July of 1990, when the Federal Trade Commission began investigations of Microsoft after the company announced plans to jointly develop operating systems with IBM. ... In 1994, Microsoft signed an agreement with the Department of Justice. ... It will make it easy to browse the Web by allowing users to have favorite sites available at the click of a mouse, a history of sites visited, and a map of your favorite Web sites. ... It will make it easy to browse the Web by allowing users to have favorite sites avai...