Bill Gates

I recently read a book called Bill Gates which is a biography. I am not interested in reading biography books but my goal is to read biography and non fiction books so I decided to read this book to start achieve my goal.

This book is about the richest person on earth called Bill Gates. There is a great story about him. Now let's see what is so great about him and how he became the richest person on earth.
William(Bill) Henry Gates III was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. His family was affluent and he learned in an exclusive prep school called Lakeside. He was talented in learning but most of all, he was interested in early computers and as well as his friend called Paul Allen. As they grew older, they became very good at using computers and even once, Computer Center Corporation company asked them to help find and fix their software problems. They began earning money for fixing problems. As Bill worked there, he improved his skills and there were things that made him good at using computers. That were: He was unafraid of failure, worked hard, shared his information with Paul, perfected his skills and devoted his time to succeed.
One day, Altair 8800 was invented by one company. Bill and Paul became very interested in that company and lied to the company that they developed Altair 8800 even though they didn't because they wanted to work there. But in 8 weeks, they actually succeeded. Immediately, the company employed Paul and Gates. They worked there for a while and offered a contracted deal with MITS to buy their software.Then, they formed a new company called Microsoft. That is how Microsoft begin.
While Bill and Paul just formed Microsoft, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) was ready to enter the personal computer market but IBM needed a company to work with. IBM chose Microsoft and they worked together. Gates and Paul wanted to get the contract to deliver BASIC for the new IBM PC like they had for Altair and they got it.
One day, a person called Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products wrote Quick and Dirty Operating System (QDOS) and Paul tried hard to obtain it. Finally, he got it and within months, Microsofy provided IBM with its operationg system renamed PC-DOS. DOS was a great success and so was IBM PC, supported by a massive marketing campaign.
At first, Microsoft followed the right path by focusing on writing operating systems and applications. But gradually, Microsoft focused more on offering new products than on making sure each product worked perfectly and securing systems. Because of this, Microsofy software crashed too often. Later, Apple invented user-friendly graphical user surface-GUI, which is a mouse to click on icons and help complex computing instrucions with a single touch. From then on, it was much easier to use computers and Microsoft copyed the idea of GUI and also created a mouse.
In the late 1990s, Microsoft invented Microsoft 95 software which was a huge success. By selling millions of copies of Microsoft 95, Bill Gates became a millionaire. However, the workers in Microsoft were conceited and became very lazy. As a result, Microsoft was failing but fortunately, Bill Gates had an idea what to do. Microsoft entered the multibillion-dollar computer gaming industry with its personal a success and also entered other game companies such as Sony.
Bill Gates realised that his programs were insecure so he slowly improved Microsoft's products and rewrote the operationg system called Windows XP. It was also a huge success. After he sold millions of copies of Windows XP, Bill Gates became a billionaire.
In 2005, Queen Elizabeth II of England knighted him and he was used to identify as 'Eristalis gatesi'.

In 2006, Bill Gates announced that the would be leaving Microsofy in 2008. Everyone was shocked by Gate's announcement but some helped him. Warren Buffett donated $50 billion of his own money to Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and a few of his friends helped him as well.

After I read this book, I was pretty surprised by the ending that he would leave Microsoft and help poor children. I should be more patient and more creative like Bill Gates and get a great innovation.