William Henry Gates III (October 28, 1955, Seattle, Washington) is an American businessman, co-founder of Microsoft software, producer of Windows, the operating system for personal most used computer in the world. He is married to Melinda French, and both can hold the leadership of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, committed to rebalancing opportunities in health and education globally, especially in disadvantaged regions, which is why they were recently awarded the Prize Prince Asturias International Cooperation 2006. Studied at the private high society Lakeside School in Seattle. The school already had a computer in 1968. So Gates was able to quickly get in touch with the machine and appreciate the computer. It didn't take long to learn and only took a week to surpass his teacher. Also at Lakeside, Gates met Paul Allen, who later founded Microsoft. He created the software company Microsoft on April 4, 1975, while still a student at Harvard University. In 1976, he left university and moved to Albuquerque, home of Altair, to agree on the assignment with that company...