Monday, June 20, 2011

The path of success of Bill Gates

At the moment the state of Bill Gates is more than 51 billion dollars. He has for many years head of all the existing official lists of the world rich, while being one of the most prominent figures of humanity in our time. Gates amassed his fortune through it all his life - the creation of software for personal computers. This case started back in 1975. That's when he and his friend Paul Allen formed a small company Micro-Soft to trade personally developed a version of BASIC programming language for the amateur polubytovogo device Altair 8800. The device looked like a rectangular box. After that, Gates throws Harvard and then starts to improve PROJECTS Microsoft - later in pereimennovany Microsoft Corporation. In 1981, he receives a contract from IBM to create operating system for the developed device "PC". Which could have been used in business and everyday life. As a basis he takes QDOS ("Quick and Dirty Operating System") which was created by programmer Tim Paterson of Seattle. Gates bought the rights from him for only 56 thousand dollars. It is on this basis, Microsoft has created a PC-DOS. After that the device PC become more widespread, they were used to solve many everyday tasks. What led to the creation of multiple clones of other manufacturers, who also was vital operating system (OS). Gates's company immediately upgraded PC-DOS, calling it MS-DOS. Gradually, the owners of personal computers began to take a paid MS-DOS as an integral part of your computer, which led to the unprecedented success of the enterprise Gates. Gates' next challenge was to create an OS that would be much easier to use. Because the system MS-DOS required from the user to know the whole ideology and teams, and even more to think about. To create an OS that would be perceived by most people has been easier to create a graphical shell with rectangular windows (windows), which allowed to perform several tasks simultaneously. And this task Gates guessing more easy to learn the operating system has a much larger number of PC users, and the third version of Microsoft Windows in 1990, has sold about 10 million copies, bringing the company and personally Gates unprecedented income. In the future, Bill Gates wakes further develop their products to the one we see today.

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