On November 26, 1976, Gates and Allen registered the "Microsoft" trademark. They once considered calling the company "Allen & Gates Inc." (Allen & Gates Inc.), but later decided to change it to "Micro-Soft" (Note: the English abbreviation of "Micro Software"), and Remove the hyphen from the name. Allen was 23 years old and Gates was 21. In January 1977, Gates dropped out of Harvard University and went to Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. There, he found a job writing programs for Roberts, paying $10 an hour. MITS is headquartered in Albuquerque, where Gates also has Microsoft headquarters.

In 1977, when Secretary Gates entered the Microsoft office building, he often found Gates himself lying on the floor sleeping. He still liked to eat pizza at this time, and he was very strict with his subordinates and often had fierce arguments with his colleagues. What Gates often said at the time was: "This is the stupidest idea I've ever heard of in my life."

On January 1, 1979, Gates moved Microsoft's headquarters to Bay Area, Washington. City of Bellevue.

On August 28, 1980, Gates signed a contract with IBM and agreed to develop an operating system for IBM's PCs. He then purchased an operating system called QDOS for $50,000. After slightly improving it, he renamed the product DOS, and then licensed it to IBM for use.

In 1982, during its first year on the market, Gates licensed the MS-DOS operating system to 50 hardware manufacturers.

On November 10, 1983, the Windows operating system made its debut. This product is an evolved version of the MS-DOS operating system and provides a graphical user interface.

In 1987, Gates met Melinda French at a press conference held by Microsoft in Manhattan, New York City.

On May 13, 1990, Mother's Day in the United States, Gates proposed a timetable for the retirement of Microsoft executives.

In 1994, at the suggestion of his father, William Gates, Gates invested US$94 million to establish the William Gates Foundation.

On April 11, 1993, on a charter flight from Florida to Seattle, Gates proposed to Melinda. Gates also arranged for the plane to make a short stop in Omaha, Nebraska, and took Melinda shopping with his friend Warren Buffett.

On January 1, 1994, Gates and Melinda held a wedding on Lanai Island in Hawaii. Gates booked all hotel rooms on the island and all helicopters in Hawaii to prevent outsiders from disturbing their wedding. Guests attending the wedding included Paul Allen and Warren Buffett.

In April 1994, Gates became the cover star of Wired magazine for the first time.

On November 11, 1994, Gates purchased Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Hammer for $30.8 million. The document is a 72-page scientific manuscript written by Leonardo da Vinci himself. Gates agreed to make the document public.

Bill Gates (Bill Gates), full name William Henry Gates III, referred to as Bill or Gates. Born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington, USA, entrepreneur, software engineer, philanthropist, and founder of Microsoft. Formerly chairman, CEO and chief software architect of Microsoft.

Bill Gates started computer programming at the age of 13. He was admitted to Harvard University at the age of 18. He dropped out of Harvard a year later. In 1975, he founded Microsoft with his friend Paul Allen?, Bill Gates Served as chairman, CEO and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation.

Bill Gates has been the top richest person in the world according to Forbes for 13 consecutive years from 1995 to 2007, and the top richest person in the United States according to Forbes for 20 consecutive years.

In 2000, Bill Gates established the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2008, Bill Gates announced that he would donate US$58 billion of his personal fortune to charitable foundations. In 2014, Bill Gates Resigned as chairman and fended off Carlos Slim to become the world's richest man.

On September 29, 2014, local time in the United States, "Forbes" released a list of the top 400 richest Americans, showing that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates topped the list for the 21st consecutive year with a fortune of US$81 billion. The throne of the richest man.