William Henry Gates the Third or also known as Bill Gates is the co-founder of the huge Microsoft Corporation. This billionaire was born in Seattle on the 28th of October 1955 and grew up there with his two sisters, Kristi and Libby. His father, William Henry Gates Senior was a prominent Seattle lawyer, and his mother, Mary Maxwell Gates was a schoolteacher at the University of Washington regent and chairwoman of United Way International. His great-grandfather was a state legislator and mayor, and his grandfather was the vice president of a national bank.
Gates attend public elementary school before enrolling in the Lakeside School which is Seattle’s most exclusive preparatory school. During his time at the Lakeside, Gates developed an interest in computers and at the age of 13, he began programming the computer. Bill and a few other students formed the Lakeside Programmers Group, and nearly spent all of their time on the computer writing programs for various purposes. The group was even banned from the computer for a few weeks for hacking into the security program and altering data on the system. Many of the group members ended up working at …show more content…
They make everything from the computer operating system to the applications that people use in daily life. Recently Microsoft has also made a push to dominate the Internet and Business Network Operating systems. Gates was formerly Chief Executive Officer, but recently passed that responsibility on to Steve Ballmer. Bill wanted to get back into programming because he felt that he had drifted away from it. Bill was married to Melinda French Gates in 1994 in Hawaii. They now have two children: a daughter, Jennifer Katharine Gates, born in 1996; and a son, Rory John Gates, born in 1999. Bill likes to read and play golf and