Bill Gates

Microsoft was formed by a Harvard College dropout called Bill Gates. Bill Gates was born as William Henry Gates III on October 28, 1955. He was born to a family that was successful in business, living comfortably in Seattle, Washington.

In his elementary school, Bill Gates quickly shot to the head of the class, outscoring his peers in most subjects, but especially math and science. His parents soon enrolled him in Lakeside Prep School, where the learning was more advanced and was just right for Gates. This move to Lakeside was historic because in the spring of 1968, he was introduced to computers.

At that time computers were still too large and expensive for the school to purchase one of its own. Over the next ten months the school made agreements with many corporations who allowed the students to use their computers. Bill Gates, his buddy Paul Allen, and a handful of other kids quickly took to computing. In fact, they began to cut classes to stay in the computer room and write programs, read computer books and find out exactly how computers worked. They soon learned to hack the system but soon enough they were caught and banned from the computer. Soon after that, Bill and his friends were then hired by the computer company to find bugs in the system, which kept causing the computers to crash. Instead of paying them for their time, they were granted something even better which was unlimited computer time.

That was the time when Gates got into computers fulltime. They would always their time eating, drinking, and breathing while on computers. They explored the system and had many various questions for the employees until they had formed a base of knowledge that would eventually lead to Microsoft.

The computer company that was hired them went out of business in 1970, and the boys had to find other sources for computer time. They were soon hired by Information Sciences Inc. to write a program for payroll. This time they actually earned money as well as enjoying the unlimited computer time. It was during this time that they were acknowledged for their skill in computer programming. They were hired and contracted by a lot of organizations to find bugs and fix them. Each job helped Gates learn his skill and become ever deeper into the world of programming.

In the fall of 1973, Gates left for Harvard University. He went for a law education, but spent most of his time in the campus computer center. He stayed in touch