In Bill Gates, we see the unity of high technology, high IQ and huge wealth. At the same time, few people can combine profound technical background, shrewd marketing and far-sighted enterprise management to create a new realm of personal computers like him.
Bill Gates1was born in Seattle, USA on October 28th, 1955. His father is a successful lawyer and his mother is a teacher. In his childhood, Bill Gates had extraordinary energy, and at the same time he was extremely persistent in what he was interested in, trying to win the first place in everything. Thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Gates, they know how to educate their children, so that little Bill can grow up according to his own interests and cultivate his own specialties. His father also encouraged Bildo Jr. to participate in social activities and cultivate his coordination and leadership skills.
From 65438 to 0967, Bill Gates was sent by his parents to a private school called Lakeside Middle School in Seattle, which was the highest-level school specially set up for the children of dignitaries. Here, Bill Gates had a face-to-face contest with the best and brightest descendants of Seattle's leadership. Fortunately, Hubin Middle School is not a rigid aristocratic school. On the contrary, it is a place that can stimulate students' talents in ways that parents can't imagine. Here, energy, intelligence, competitive consciousness, enterprising spirit, desire, business sensitivity and entrepreneurial consciousness are always cultivated and stimulated. Bill Gates learned a lot here and met many computer geniuses like him. Later, together, they created the future software kingdom.
1973, Bill Gates left Seattle to study at the famous Harvard University. In his own words, it means "learning from people smarter than him". According to his father's wishes, Bill went to law school and embarked on the road of lawyer's growth. But the result was unexpected, and Bill left Harvard University disappointed. One year before graduation, he gave up his easy-to-get degree, gave up his well-developed and well-paid lawyer job and turned to the PC industry with uncertain prospects. He founded Microsoft with his good friend paul allen and started their struggle in the field of personal computer software.
1975, Gates, who was less than 20 years old, founded Microsoft in Albuquerque, Mexico, USA, and took a job that was not commensurate with his age. In addition to certain technical work, he put more energy into sales, investment, advertising and coding.
At first, they developed the BASIC language and successfully sold it to several computer hardware companies through hard work. These companies have obtained the license of BASIC language and are allowed to sell it together with the computers produced by these companies.
1979, considering the needs of the company's development, the company moved to the suburbs of Seattle, Washington, and returned to Gates' hometown. Soon, considering the actual situation at that time, 50 people were recruited, and the total number reached 80.
In order to expand the company's reputation and business, Microsoft and IBM jointly developed the operating system MS-DOS for personal computers. By taking measures such as improving the performance of MS-DOS, helping other companies to write MS-DOS-based software, and keeping the price of MS-DOS low, MS-DOS finally defeated CM/M-86 and UCSDPascalP-system, which kept pace with it at first, and established its dominant position in PC operating system.
At this point, Microsoft has achieved initial success. However, Gates did not stop because of this satisfaction, but actively explored new ways of development.
From 65438 to 0980, Microsoft ushered in a new chapter of development: cooperation with the famous computer manufacturer IBM. Bill Gates keenly seized this opportunity and reached a cooperative relationship with IBM at a low price. At this time, Microsoft has shown an unstoppable development momentum. Under the leadership of Bill Gates, the market share of products has gradually expanded and profits have been rolling in. Nothing seems to stop the rapid growth of Microsoft.
1983, Gates realized that the next step should be to develop a graphical operating system. It is difficult to guarantee Microsoft's leading position in the software industry only by relying on MS-DOS. Because MS-DOS is a character-based operating system, users must use the keyboard to input instructions that are often difficult to understand, and then realize them on the screen. MS-DOS does not provide images and other graphics to help users use various applications. User interface is the communication channel between computer and users. He realized that the operating system of graphical interface not only benefits existing users, but also attracts new users who don't want to spend time learning to use complex interfaces.
Soon, Microsoft announced the introduction of graphic computing function in IMB personal computer, and called this product WINDOWS. Its goal is to go beyond MS-DOS and introduce the mouse newly developed by Palo Alto Research Center.
1990 In May, WINDOWS3.0 was put into the market and was immediately welcomed by users. It quickly replaced other systems and gained a firm foothold in the market. Since then, Microsoft has continued to develop WINDOWS, adding new functions to it, and new WINDOWS products have been continuously introduced, such as WINDOWS95 and WINDOWS98. With the appearance and continuous development of WINDOWS, MS-DOS is being eliminated, and WINDOWS is in an obvious leading position in many systems.
A few years later, full-fledged, Microsoft began to challenge its powerful competitors independently, and achieved successive victories. Even IBM, which has tens of billions of dollars in assets, has been defeated in the software market. Under the leadership of Bill Gates, Microsoft calmly defeated one opponent after another and opened up one market after another, and established its unshakable dominance until today. 1995 was a brilliant year for Microsoft and Bill Gates, because they launched the long-awaited "Windows 95" software in the global computer industry, which is the latest and most powerful personal computer operating system. The global advertising cost is $500 million, which is a large sum, causing people to queue up to buy "Windows 95" in front of Microsoft stores around the world, such as the United States, French and Taiwan Province Province. Such a scene, such an enterprise, is that Bill Gates can make waves.
Today, Bill Gates launched a new round of attacks on many non-computer fields, including digital TV, cultural communication, information services and other fields. It remains to be seen whether the world's richest man can continue to be invincible as in the field of personal computer software.