About Gates, Allen and Microsoft

Bill Gates

Gates was born in Seattle, Washington, from partner William H. Gates, Sr.. and Mary Maxwell Gates, who is a descendant of the English, German, and Scots-Irish. His family, including the upper middle; his father is a prominent lawyer, his mother served as a member of the board of directors of First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way, and his father, J. W. Maxwell, the president of a national bank. Gates has a sister named Kristi (Kristianne) and a younger sister named Libby. He was the fourth descendant in a family, but is known as William Gates III or "Trey" because his father bears the suffix "II". At the beginning of his life, Gates' parents expect her to a career in law. When Gates was young, his family often attend church congregation.

At age 13, he attended Lakeside School, an exclusive prep school in Seattle. When he was in eighth grade, the Mothers Club at the school take advantage of the permission of the Lakeside School rummage sale to buy a Model 33 ASR Teletype terminal and part time computer using computer General Electric (GE) for students interested sekolah.Gates GE system using a BASIC program, and exit from math classes to pursue his desire. He wrote his first computer program on this machine, an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allow computer users to play against the computer. Gates was fascinated with these machines and how machines execute software code perfectly. When he thought back on those times, he says, "There is something that fits with the machine." After the Mothers Club donation runs out, he and other students spent time working on several systems, including DEC PDP minicomputers. One such system is a PDP-10 owned by the Computer Center Corporation (CCC), which banned four Lakeside students-Gates, Paul Allen, Ric Weiland, and Kent Evans-for the summer after they were caught exploiting a bug in the operating system to gain time free computer.
Toward the end of the ban, the four students offered to find bugs in CCC's software in exchange for computer time. Instead of using the system via Teletype, Gates went to CCC's offices and studied source code programs that run on the system, including programs in FORTRAN, LISP, and machine language. Agreement with CCC continued until 1970, when the company went bankrupt. The following year, Information Sciences, Inc.. employs four Lakeside students to write a payroll program in COBOL language and give them computer time and royalties. Once managers are aware of its programming abilities, Gates wrote the school a computer program to create student classroom schedules. He modified the code so that it is placed in classes dominated by women. He then stated that "hard to pull away from the machine that I use to be able to clearly demonstrate success." [19] At the age of 17, Gates and Allen formed a joint venture called Traf-O-Data, to create a counter-based traffic Intel 8008 processor. In early 1973, Bill Gates worked as a congressional aide in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Gates graduated from Lakeside School in 1973. He obtained a value of 1590 of total 1600 on the SAT exam and enrolled at Harvard College in the fall 1973.Di Harvard, he met Steve Ballmer, who later replaced Gates as CEO of Microsoft.
In both, Gates designing an algorithm for sorting pancakes as a solution to one of a series of unsolved problems in combinatorics class by Harry Lewis, one of his professors. Gates Solutions holds the record for the fastest version for 30 years; his successor was more rapid one percent saja.Solusinya was inaugurated in printed form in collaboration with computer scientists at Harvard, Christos Papadimitriou.Gates no plans to learn it as a student at Harvard and spent much time with use the school computers.Gates is still communicating with Paul Allen, and she joined him at Honeywell during the summer 1974.Pada following year, MITS Altair 8800 based on the Intel 8080 CPU launched, and Gates and Allen saw the launch as an opportunity to establish a computer software company has been talking sendiri.Ia this decision with his parents are very supportive once they see the enthusiasm Gates to set up the company.

Paul Allen

Everyone has heard a lot about Bill Gates, his achievements, and the fortunes he's made. However, he is not the sole founder of Microsoft. You may have heard the name Paul Allen, but chances are you don't know much about him. Nevertheless, it was when Allen teamed up with Gates that Microsoft was created.

Allen was born on January 21, 1953 in Seattle and met Gates at Lakeside prep school when they were both students there. Lakeside prep had recently decided to acquaint its students with the world of computers. Since computers were extremely expensive, they had a fundraiser to purchase computer time on a DEC PDP-10 owned by General Electric. It was on this computer that Gates, Allen, and a few other Lakeside students discovered computing, and, soon thereafter, programming. The young boys used up all the computing time the school had purchased and began falling behind in their classes.

Luckily for the boys, Computer Center Corporation opened and struck a deal with Lakeside prep so that the school could use their computer at discounted prices. Gates and Allen quickly became hackers: causing the system to crash, breaking the computer's security system, and even altering files that recorded the amount of computer time they were using. Once discovered, the boys were banned from the Computer Center Corporation for several weeks. This, however, turned out to be a blessing for both the Computer Center and the boys, as the company was very impressed with their abilities. When the Center began having problems with their computers and business was beginning to suffer, the company decided to hire the boys to find bugs and expose weaknesses in the system. In turn the boys would receive unlimited computer time use.

After a few years and a handful of small business ventures, Gates and Allen decided to start their own company: Traf-O-Data. They built a small computer that was used to help measure traffic flow; they grossed about $20,000 from this project. Allen enrolled in Washington State University, and Traf-O-Data lasted until Gates moved back east to attend Harvard. The two young men stayed in close contact and, eventually, Allen moved closer to Gates in order to act on some of their ideas. Allen encouraged Gates to open a software company with him, but Gates remained unsure until Allen came to him with an issue of Popular Electronics. On the cover of the magazine was a picture of the Altair 8080 with a headline the read, "World's First Microcomputer Kit to Rival Commercial Models."

Gates and Allen recognized this as their opportunity because they knew that the home computer market would soon explode. Within a few days Gates contacted the makers of the Altair, Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), and convinced the company that he and Allen had developed a BASIC that could be used on the Altair. Although they had done nothing of the sort, MITS believed them, and the young men set to work on producing what they had promised. Neither Allen nor Gates had ever even seen an Altair, but, nevertheless, in eight weeks, the men took their program to MITS. The first time that they tested their BASIC would be during their presentation to the company; if something in the code was faulty, now would be the time they discovered it. Luckily, the program worked and MITS immediately purchased the rights to their BASIC. Allen and Gates knew that the software market had been born, and within a year, Gates had dropped out of Harvard, and he and Allen had founded Microsoft.

Allen contributed to the company from the beginning and was still around to discuss graphical user interfaces, and thus plant the seeds of what would eventually become Windows. However, he was forced to leave Microsoft in 1983, after developing Hodgkin's disease. Allen has been awarded the Life-Time Achievement Award by PC Magazine and was recently inducted into the Computer museum Hall of Fame.

MICROSOFT

BASIC
MITS Altair 8800 Computer with floppy disc system 8-inch (200 mm)
After reading the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics that demonstrated the Altair 8800, Gates contacted Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), the creator of the new microcomputer, to inform them that he and his friends are working on a BASIC interpreter for use as platformnya.Kenyataannya, Gates and Allen did not have computers and do not write sebarispun Altair BASIC code, they just want to make MITS interested. MITS president Ed Roberts agreed to meet them to see the demo, and in the next few weeks they developed an Altair emulator operates on a minicomputer, and then the BASIC interpreter. The demonstration, held at MITS's offices in Albuquerque was successful and resulted in a deal with MITS to distribute the interpreter as Altair BASIC was. Paul Allen was hired at MITS, and Gates out of Harvard to work with Allen at MITS in Albuquerque in November 1975. They named their partnership "Micro-Soft" and established its first office in Albuquerque. The next year, a hyphen in his name removed, and on 26 November 1976, the trade name "Microsoft" is registered in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs New Mexico.Gates never returned to Harvard to complete his studies.
Microsoft BASIC is known by computer enthusiasts, but Gates was later discovered that the pre-market copy had leaked into the community and continues to be widely copied and distributed. On February 1976, Gates wrote the Open Letter to Hobbyists in the MITS news letter stating that MITS can not continue to manufacture, distribute, and maintain high-quality software without paying. This letter was welcomed by many fans cool the computer, but Gates maintains his belief that software developers should be able to charge a fee. Microsoft free of MITS in late 1976, and the company continues to develop programming language software for various systems. The company moved from Albuquerque to its new kanor in Bellevue, Washington on January 1, 1979.
In the early years of Microsoft, all employees have a great responsibility on the company's business. Gates oversaw the business details as well as writing the code. In the first five years, Gates personally review every line of code the company shipped, and often rewrote parts of the code to make it look right.

Partnership with IBM
In 1980, IBM persuade Microsoft to write a BASIC interpreter for the rest of their personal computers, IBM PC. When IBM's representatives mentioned that they needed an operating system, Gates gave a referral to Digital Reserach (DRI), makers of the operating system CP / M which is widely used in the IBM itu.Diskusi with Digital Research did not work, and they do not reach a licensing agreement. IBM representative Jack Sams mentioned the licensing difficulties permission at the next meeting with Gates and told him to find a decent operating system. A few weeks later Gates plans to use 86-DOS (QDOS), an operating system similar to CP / M software is made by Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products (SCP) is the same as PC. Microsoft made a deal with SCP to become the executive agent license, and then the absolute owner of 86-DOS.After adapting the operating system for PC, Microsoft delivered it to IBM PC-DOS in the form of a fee in exchange for $ 50,000. Gates did not offer a transfer of copyright is the operating system, because he believes other software manufacturers will emulate IBM.Mereka system correctly, and sales of MS-DOS made Microsoft a major player in the computer industry.
Gates oversaw Microsoft's company restructuring on June 25, 1981 the company re-incorporate in the state of Microsoft and made Gates President and Chairman of Microsoft.

Windows
Microsoft launched its first retail version of Microsoft Windows on November 20, 1985, and in August, the company reached an agreement with IBM to develop a separate operating system called OS / 2. Although the two companies successfully developed the first version of this system, creative differences undermine this cooperation. Gates issued an internal memo on May 16, 1991 which announced that the joint OS / 2 ended and shifting their operations to the Microsoft Windows NT kernel development.