Bill Gates and Paul Allen

[rifat28dddd]

Bill Gates
Bill Gates in his youth. Source
Unfinished higher education and the creation of Microsoft
Gates graduated from high school in 1973 and entered Harvard University, one of the most prestigious educational institutions in the world. Here he studied mathematics and computer science. While studying at Harvard, Bill met his school friend Paul Allen again.

In January 1975, Popular Electronics magazine published an article about the new Altair 8800 microcomputer from MITS. Bill and Paul saw the potential for developing software for this device and contacted the manufacturer, MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems). They offered to develop a BASIC interpreter for the Altair.

It is noteworthy that Bill and Paul only had documentation from the south africa telegram data Altair 8800 microcomputer, but did not have the processor itself. Then Allen wrote a program that imitated the work of the Altair 8800. The language interpreter was tested on it.

At the presentation, the interpreter started on the second try, but this did not spoil the customer's impression of the program's capabilities. Then the first contract was concluded between the manufacturer MITS and Microsoft.

When Bill Gates founded Microsoft with Paul Allen, personal computers were rare. Gates wanted to make them available to everyone. To make his dream come true, he had to make a difficult decision: leave his studies at Harvard and devote his life to software development.

Bill Gates and Paul Allen
In 1980, Microsoft entered into an agreement with one of the oldest and most respected IT companies in the world. They began developing an operating system for the new IBM personal computer.

The collaboration resulted in the birth of MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System), which quickly became the standard for PCs around the world. This contract with IBM was a turning point in Microsoft's history. Thanks to Bill Gates' strategic decisions, the company was able to retain the rights to MS-DOS. They later licensed the operating system to other PC manufacturers.