William Henry Gates the III, is also referred as "The king of Software" he cofounder the Microsoft Corporation, the largest computer software company. Gates is an American business executive officer of Microsoft. He was born in Seattle, Washington on October 28, 1955. He was the second child and only son of William Henry Gates Jr. who was an attorney and former schoolteacher. Bill developed an early interest in computer science and began studying computers in the seventh grade. By the age of twelve, he was involved with various computer-programming projects thought high school. While attending Harvard in 1975, Gates teamed with Paul Allen to develop a version of the Basic computer programming language for their first personal computer. They both decided they wanted to be at the head of the computer software design industry, when they saw an article in "Popular Electronics" magazine published in 1975about a three hundred and Fifty-dollar computer.
             He dropped out of Harvard in 1975, beginning his life as an entrepreneur in computer software. After he left Harvard both Allen and himself developed a programming language for the firs personal computer and the language they called Basic. This led to the formation of Microsoft in Aluquerque, New Mexico but in 1979 they decided to move the company to Seattle to be close to home. The opportunity of a lifetime came in 1980 when IBM asked Gates to help them with their personal computer project. They needed Gates to write the operating system for the new machines. This is where Gates wrote MS-DOS, and not only did he sell it to IBM but other companies to. Over two million copies were sold in four years and over one hundred million by 1990. He introduced word processing software for PCs called Microsoft Word. He also agreed to develop software for Apple Macintosh before the release of the first Mac in 1984. Reed College in Portland, Oregon presented Bill the Howard Vollum award in 1984 for hi...