as a kid was a major excitement to me. Bill and Paul played with a computer named Altair 8800 with a small processor from a noname company called Intel. Paul and Bill shared the same love and excitement that I did with my commodore 64. Bill and Paul took their excitement and knowledge to a new level. Bill, a young student at Harvard and Paul a programmer of minicomputers at Honeywell made a decision to stop there lives and start Microsoft. Over the next few years, Microsoft would make sound and fundamental decisions to propel Microsoft to the top of the software and eventually the computer world. As stated in The Road Ahead copyright 1996, Microsoft made over eight billion dollars. Today, Bill Gates is the richest man in the wo!
             rld according to Fortune 500 magazine. How did Microsoft bring itself to the forefront? Business savvy. Bill compared the computer industry to the VHS - Betamax war. The reason why VHS took over the video world was b
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