1 Bill Gates is an American business and the richest man in the world.Bill Gates was born the 28th at October, 1955, in Seattle. USA.His father is a lawyer and his mother was a teacher and then a company director. At school Bill's favourite subjects were Maths and Science. At 13 he got interested in computers.
2 Bill Gates and his friend Paul Alien were soon spending all their time writing programmes and learning about computers instead of doing their homework. The two friends started Microsoft in 1975 and it became a business success. In 1980, Gates bought a small company which produced an operating system called DOS. He made some changes to it and renamed it MS-DOS.Since 1980 MS-DOS has been the standard operating system for all PCs. Microsoft has also developed such well-known programmes as Windows, Excel and Internet Explorer.
3 One reason for his success is that Bill has always been very ambitious and hard-working.
4 Bill hasn't got much tree time, but when he has a chance he likes playing golf and bridge. He is also fond of reading about science.
5 Gates is very generous. He has already given $300 million to charity, and he says he plans to give away almost all of his wealth when he retires.