Bill Gates

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Biography : Pirates of Silicon Valley(Bill Gates)

Every single company has its moment of creation and development , but a few of them has what it takes to be known as “Tech Giants” a name for those companies that have changed our perception of technology , examples: Google,Apple,Samsung, Facebook, and Microsoft. But this is about a person who created one of those super corporation , which is Microsoft. Bill Gates had a huge role in the formation of not only Microsoft but even Apple, you’ll see later what does it have to do with it, its is this kind of connections that made me choose Bill Gates to write about. Bill studied in Harvard University along with his colleagues , there are 2 main of those which are Paul Allen and Steve Ballmer ( which is the current CEO of Microsoft). About same time Bill was studying , Steve along with Steve Wozniak also were developing there own prototypes of computers. When Steve Jobs and Wozniak job was done they presented to a convention to present their inventions. Bill had already created Microsoft but it was smaller than a Oxxo, impressed of what Apple have done they tried to talk to them but were ignored since there was a lot of crowd. Now Bill was interested in competing against Apple, but they knew it would be hard to recreate something Apple did. So they tried to make a deal with IMB , a company at that time the King of technology . Microsoft said that they have what IMB needs an operating system , Bill said that the OS is called DOS but the truth is that they had nothing Bill just said to gain trust to IMB. So Paul Allen reclaimed what they are going to do? Bill’s idea was to buy an OS that other person already has , and just make some changes. But at this time Apple had been given a new Os and the mouse from a company called Xerox , with Apple having that technology Bill GAtes knew he had no chance of winning unless he joins Apple’s side. So he convinced Steve Jobs to hand him over a prototype , just to check but the real plan was to make a similar OS and market it as Windows. With several events happening with Windows Microsoft became profitable licensing its OS to other manufactures overtaking Apple. As Bill Gates knew how to connect with other mastermind in the creation of the most used platform in any PC.

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