Bill+Gates

Parker Toth

William Henry "Bill" Gates was born on October 28, 1955 (Age 58) in Seattle, Washington. He found interest in computers at age 13. Currently, Bill Gates is the second richest person in the world ($81.3 billion). Gates graduated from Lakeside School in 1973. He is currently married to Melinda Gates and has 3 children. He created the "Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation" created for children in need.

Bill Gates is influential to the evolution of computers because he was the founder of Microsoft. He also launched the first retail version of Windows on November 20,1985. Gates also partnered with IBM in July 1980 to work on an upcoming personal computer. On December 9, 1987 Microsoft released Windows 2.0 with desktop icons and expanded memory and on August 24, 1995, Microsoft released Windows 95, selling a record-setting 7 million copies in the first five weeks.

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