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Classical Homeschooling." Bill Gates’ Advice to Students. Web. 28 

Mar. 2012. <http://classicalhomeschooling.com/classical-

homeschooling-third-issue/bill-gates-advice-to-students/>.

Bill Gates has one of the greatest minds 

in history. He was the person that 

created Microsoft in 1975. Bill Gates was 

born in Seattle, Washington on the 28th 

of October 1955. Bill gates had 2 sisters 

while he was growing up in Washington.  

Articles/Biographies/Other/Gates, Bill." Gates, Bill. Web. 28 

Mar. 2012. 

<http://www.freeinfosociety.com/article.php?id=74>.

Bill Gates created the MS-DOS system, which 

allowed any computer to do what it does, whether 

it's using a calculator or writing a story. Little did 

he know that the software that he created would 

be a key to future technology. But Bill Gates did 

not do this all by himself. When Gates attended a 

private school, he began his interest in computer 

science. While learning about computers, he met a 

classmate named Paul Allen. He was going to be 

Bill's business partner when Microsoft is created. 

Paul Allen was just as interested in computers as 

Bill Gates was. They became close friends and 

started creating software in their free time.

Bill Gates Cleans Out His Desk After 30 Years of Innovation: Scientific American." Science News, Articles and 

Information. Web. 28 Mar. 2012. <http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=bill-gates-cleans-out-his-

desk>.

For Bill Gates and Paul Allen, creating software was 

easy. They developed a name for themselves while 

fixing computers in the school and creating 

software to allow programs to run on different 

operating systems. They developed such a name 

that they were asked by a large company to start 

writing programs for their computers. Bill Gates 

was smarter than that. He thought of creating his 

own software that they could sell to companies 

that needed the extra software. This is where Bill 

Gates created Micro-Soft, which is very well known 

today as Microsoft. Paul Allen would guide Bill 

Gates through creating their business and 

succeeding in the near future

Bill Gates got a copyright for Microsoft so that other 

companies had to buy the software instead of using it 

for free. Bill Gate's father was a lawyer and helped Bill 

with the business part of the company. Over time, Bill 

Gates figured out how to force the computer companies 

to buy his software. The way he did this was by creating 

software that the computer companies needed for their 

computers to run. In 1973, all computers had to be sold 

with some kind of program already installed. This 

benefited Microsoft greatly because Microsoft was 

probably the most-used program in the United States. 

The only competitor that Microsoft had was Apple. In 

1980, 80 percent of all the computers in the world had 

Microsoft installed on them.

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