The First PC

First PC, The MITS Altair 8800 used BASIC language interpreter by Bill Gates and assembler program by Digital Research Corporation.







source: some book from where i had made notations during my diploma days.

Making Of Microsoft

Child Prodigy Turns Programmer
How did Bill Gates made his Empire

The Book is :Making of Microsoft, The - Danniel Ichiban and Susan L. Knepper

Ok just to start with, i found this book while checking through the books in a reading library near my house. I always wondered how the ’’MICROSOFT’’ thing happened :). Actually tried a lot to search on the internet, but was not satisfied with he content. Ofcourse with such a long history, computer is not a medium on which we can read this. But thanks to the Government (the library i mentioned is Municipality owned), due to which i got this blessed(exaggerated) chance to read the book.

Let me tell you this is a very old publications and I am not able to find this book anywhere. This book is translated from french language by the authors. France and Japan were a very big market for Microsoft in its early years.


Now about the book. It is very very well written book. Neatly organised into 16 chapters. It takes of from the birth of the genius, to how he wrote his first software, and finally ends at the launch of Excel for Windows. This book covers only upto 1980s. And yes, thats what is needed, after 1980s as the cliche goes ’’is History’’ and everybody knows it.

There is only one outcome after reading this book, you will become a fan of Bill Gates. If you already are, then you will worship him(again exaggerated). It covers all the early event from the personal front to the corporate front. It also covers Microsoft working culture. How the Name was derived. Reading this book, anyone can make a short documentary, by just following the script.

So if you are a normal human being, even non techy, you will like this book from each and every perspective. Rather you will like this normal(exaggerated) human being named WILLIAM HENRY(bill) GATES III.

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Mark Your Calendar

The Microsoft co-founder and driving force in the company, whose boyish face and nerdy manner epitomizes the US software colossus, spends his last day at the office on Friday.

However Gates, 52, remains chairman of the Microsoft board of directors and the company's largest shareholder.

After decades devoted to Microsoft, Gates turns his attention full time to the philanthropic Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation he established with his wife.

Gates leaves Microsoft to wrestle with a fast-changing computer era and growing challenges from Internet juggernaut Google and longtime rival Apple, which makes Macintosh computers.

Three people will essentially fill the void Gates leaves behind at Microsoft.

Gate's job as chief software architect is being handled by Ray Ozzie.

Craig Mundie inherited Gate's chief research and strategy officer duties, while former Harvard University classmate Steve Ballmer is chief executive officer at the software colossus based in Redmond, Washington.

source : HindustanTimes

Cyborg's Comments:

Well guys mark this date on the Calendar, as it has already created history.

Fell the heat, Bill Gates of MICROSOFT resigns from its active corporate responsibilities.

Its like leavin your own baby to someone else, for taking care. Thank god its not somebody else but Steve Ballmer.

But yes history is created, the fact that we take Bill Gates for Granted in this generation was not and will not be seen in the same way.

Emotional Feelings ????

Yes especially if he is one of your iconic figures.