Bill Gates Case Study

Introduction

William Henry Gates III was born on October 28th, 1955 in Seattle, Washington (Gates, 2016). This man grew up to be one of the richest men alive, and he is known as Bill Gates. In it says that he grew up in the upper middle class with two sisters, Kristianne and Libby, one older and one younger than him, respectively. His mother, Mary Maxwell, was a student at the University of Washington, and his father, William H. Gates Sr., was a law student. Bill Gates’ mother was involved with charities and civic affairs while she devoted her time raising her children after a brief career as a teacher. There was a bank in Seattle founded by her grandfather that she served on the corporate board, including the United Way and International Business

During the year, Gates and Allen decided to drop the hyphen to just Microsoft (B., 2017). In the beginning everything was running smoothly, but only about 10 percent actually paid to use BASIC (B., 2017; Driscoll, 2015). The Altair computer was not meeting their overhead, even though Microsoft’s BASIC software program for the Altair computer, they collected the company fee and the royalties. Computer hobbyists were obtaining pre-market copies and reproducing and distributing them for free, so they felt that with the reproduction and distribution allowed them to share software with friends and fellow computer enthusiasts. Bill Gates thought the free distribution of software as stealing, especially since the software that was created was to be

Among the 30 percent of the world’s computers running on its software, Microsoft was going global with offices in Japan and Great Britain from 1983. Almost two years after Gates’ announcement in 1985 he launched Windows. While working on making Microsoft compatible for Apple Computers; Apple had given full access to their technology, and Gates had given Apple advice to license their software, but they did not take the advice because they were more interested in selling computers. Since Gates was taking advantage of the situation by creating a software format similar to the Macintosh, Apple was going to start legal proceedings. Now that Microsoft was retaliating against Apple saying it would delay the shipment of the software that was compatible for Macintosh user, and in the end Microsoft won because even though there were similarities on how the software systems operated, for each individual function they were distinctly different. In March 1986, Gates became an instant millionaire by taking Microsoft public with an initial public offering (IPO) of $21 per share (B., 2017). In 1987, he met Melinda French and their relationship grew. Gates had 24.7 million shares which held 45 percent of the company, and making his stake that was at $234 million of Microsoft’s $520 million. When the stock hit $90.75 a