Bill Gates Research Paper

1142 Words3 Pages

Bill Gates is highly regarded as one of the most powerful people in the world. In order to do this, he rode the wave that was the rise of the personal computer. The software that he designed for it with his partner Paul Allen revolutionized the technology industry. These men were the founders and biggest contributors to the company Microsoft. Founded in April of 1975 Microsoft was at the forefront of software technology for the new Microcomputers, leading the world in a new more technology friendly world.

Bill Gates: King of Computers this was a book written back in 2000 as a biography of Bill Gates and his rise to the top as a computer software creator, along with his partner Paul Allen. The book talks about how Allen and Gates met, their …show more content…

By the late 1980s the Microsoft corporation had taken off, there was a major amount of growth in the company and Bill Gates and Paul Allen were now two of the richest men in the world. This was due to the fact that the company’s software was being used bye ninety percent of the world’s personal computers at the time (Stevenson). Gates had created a super corporation in Microsoft. The company had developed some of the world’s finest programs from the BASIC to MC-DOS to now Windows. The creation of such products of which (though upgraded and changed) that are still used today is unheard of in such a quickly advancing market and time for technology. They started a revolution to not create the computer bodies but the brains of the computers as a model for their business. And it changed the …show more content…

During the early 1990s the Microsoft company was under attack. It was being sued under Anti-Trust legislation for being a Monopoly and for the most part it was ninety percent of the world’s computers ran Microsoft software and it showed when the company released Internet Explorer, in which the company was attacked for an attempt to eliminate competition. It really effected the view in which people saw the company and Bill Gates while also shaping perspective on how technology should be viewed. Should there be one single networked company running it all, considering the computer was so new and different than other companies in the past or should it be treated as a normal company as it was and be broken up for monopolistic intentions. The company has reshaped the way large corporations are viewed and how people view software and hardware that goes into computers. In 1999 the suit went to trial and a judge ruled that Microsoft was in fact doing things that were detrimental to both competitors and to customers. This caused Gates to step down as CEO and become head chairmen and Program architect of Microsoft, leading the company in a new direction for the future. He has fought hard to remove the smeared Monopoly name from Microsoft form becoming such a huge advocator for change in the world.

Microsoft by Tina Gianoulis is a brief overview of the Microsoft company created by Bill Gates. The article explores the ideas of Microsoft’s exploration into other endeavors such as the

Open Document