Bill Gates timeline

Bill Gates is born

William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, and chairman of Microsoft, the software... Read more

Bill Gates attends Lakeside School

At 13 he enrolled in the Lakeside School, an exclusive preparatory school.[12] When he was in the eighth grade, the Mothers Club at the school used... Read more

Bill Gates enrolls at Harvard University

Gates graduated from Lakeside School in 1973. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT[18] and subsequently enrolled at Harvard College in the fall of... Read more

Bill Gates and Paul Allen form partnership called Micro-Soft

While at Harvard, he met his future business partner, Steve Ballmer, whom he later appointed as CEO of Microsoft. He also met computer scientist... Read more

Bill Gates writes "Open Letter to Hobbyists"

The Open Letter to Hobbyists was an open letter written by Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, to early personal computer hobbyists, in which... Read more

Microsoft opens first international office in Japan

The company's first international office was founded on November 1, 1978, in Japan, titled "ASCII Microsoft" (now called "Microsoft... Read more

Microsoft moves headquarters to Bellevue, Washington

Microsoft became independent of MITS in late 1976, and it continued to develop programming language software for various systems.[27] The company... Read more

Microsoft partners with IBM to wrtie the BASIC for the IBM PC

In 1980, IBM approached Microsoft to write the BASIC interpreter for its upcoming personal computer, the IBM PC. When IBM's representatives... Read more

Microsoft becomes incorporated and Bill Gates becomes President

Gates oversaw Microsoft's company restructuring on June 25, 1981, which re-incorporated the company in Washington and made Gates President of... Read more

Bill Gates founds Corbis

Corbis Corporation is an American company, based in Seattle, Washington, that sells and otherwise distributes photography and film footage and... Read more

Bill Gates marries Melinda French

Gates married Melinda French from Dallas, Texas on January 1, 1994. They have three children: Jennifer Katharine (1996), Rory John (1999) and... Read more

United States v. Microsoft Trial

United States v. Microsoft was a set of consolidated civil actions filed against Microsoft Corporation pursuant to the Sherman Antitrust Act on May... Read more

Live 8 concerts

Live 8 was a string of benefit concerts that took place on 2 July 2005, in the G8 states and in South Africa. They were timed to precede the G8... Read more

Bill Gates Steps Down from Daily Duties

William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, and chairman of Microsoft, the software... Read more

TED 2009 held in Long Beach, CA

Normally the TED Conference is held in Monterey, CA, but in 2009 (the 25th Anniversary of the conference) it moved to Long Beach to accommodate a... Read more