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Bill Gates Research Paper

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Bill Gates and His Empire

People say that Bill Gates created the future. Bill Gates was co-founder of Microsoft and spend a lot of worthy time creating a computer empire (Microsoft) in his own eyes. Gates changed the computer technology usage in our society. Computers became a lot cheaper and usable for regular people. He succeeded not only in business but also in donations. Gates and his wife created a foundation that donates money to help our society. He left Microsoft to spend more time on his foundation. Gates family has done a lot of good things for humanity and always will be remembered. Bill Gates improved the computer technology of the 20 and 21st centuries.
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First program that he developed helped him organize his class schedule and made 4,000 dollars with this program arranging schedules for other students and teachers during the summer. Each time creating something new he succeeded even more. Next business that he created was called Traf-O-Data, he made over 20,000 dollars in his first year by selling traffic-monitoring to local jurisdictions in Seattle. After High School he got into Harvard and was supposed to become a lawyer as wanted his parents; fortunately, for humanity he left his path after 2 years and became genius in computer designing and changed the future. Even Gates had some bad times. In high school “Gates was responsible for what’s was probably the first computer virus” (“Bill Gates, 1”1). For this duty he wasn’t allowed to touch computers for his whole junior year. After Harvard he started working on his software and got his idea of creating a software from an unexpected place. He helped IBM he wanted to create a software for regular people to use in their daily life. He really improved his skills when he took on “IBM Project Chess, he changed their code of software and invented something …show more content…

When Gates started Microsoft he faced many challenges in creating of Windows. It all started when he worked for MITS and developed his Altair 8800 (Windows coding), when he had to create the interface he had many challenges and even had to ask for advice from IBM’s technicians. Windows is a very good software and Microsoft made it as good as it needs to be. Microsoft was one of the first companies in computer world, it had very good software and quality for regular users. Microsoft’s windows had been installed on 90% of world’s computers and was their main profit. Microsoft was sued many times. Some of the cases weren’t fair “by 7-0 vote appeals that a new judge has to decide what penalty Microsoft should pay” (“Bill Gates, 1 “3). Original judge, Jackson had personal issues with Microsoft that’s why he got removed as a judge. This Company invented the future and made everything possible, society probably would stopped because of the issues in technological progress. Microsoft never gave up all the workers support each other and always invent something new. After their failures they started to work even harder. Microsoft is very strong and overpowered company and “was sued multiple times for its monopoly power, and after all they were forced to share some ideas with other” (“Bill Gates, 1” 1). It was a failure for Microsoft but also a win, other companies invented something new and helped the progress.

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