Bill Gates
Bill Gates is a software industry pioneer and a business magnate. He dropped out of Harvard at the age of 19 to form Microsoft with Paul Allen. Microsoft developed their own operating system to compete with IBM's version. Microsoft's Windows operating system appears on over 80% of computers today. The Windows operating system was made popular by the many apps that came with it, including processors, spreadsheets, databases, games, and other programs designed to automate everyday tasks for business and home. Microsoft is the world's largest producer of software for microcomputers. Because of Microsoft's success, Bill Gates is one of the world's richest men today.