Page 1 of 2
Microsoft is mostly the invention of one man - Bill Gates. How did it all happen? We look at the early days of Microsoft and how Bill Gates steered it from nothing to a billion dollar business with nothing but code.
Bill Gates, the man who invented Microsoft, had a goal best summed up by
"A computer on every desktop and Microsoft software in every computer".
Yet it was by no means obvious that a company could survive, let alone grow, by doing nothing but selling software back in the early days of the personal computer - after all it wasn't even clear that there was a market for the hardware!
William Henry Gates III
(Born 1955)
Billionaires are always interesting but Gates is unusual in that he is a rich techie. The problem with discussing Bill Gates is because he is so rich (the richest man in the world in 2015, with a estimated net worth of around $80 billion, despite having given away some $29.5 billion so far according to the Forbes list) and because Microsoft is still so powerful a dispassionate account is hard to come by.
The legend is that somewhere, presumably in a garage, a couple of high school kids produced a version of Basic that ran on personal computers and the rest just happened.
The truth is somewhat different.
Bill Gates had already set up a company, Traf-O-Data by the time he was 16 and was already making money from computing
No comments:
Post a Comment