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Bill Gates
Is it possible that Bill Gates is the Devil himself ?????
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Jennykins, That is not quite true.
Bill was very interested in computers while at university and mainly player around with the Basic language.
He also help start the Microsoft company.
The computer market was very fragmenred then (early 1970s) and there was no single company or product that dominated.
Bill heard that IBM (huge computer company in those days) was building its first PC and needed a language, so Bill offered them Basic.
At a meeting with them he heard they also needed an operating system for the PC.
Bill did not have one, but someone he knew did, so he bought it off them for peanuts (a few thousand dollars comes to mind) and offered it to IBM.
IBM said yes, but Bill said they could have it for their IBM PCs if Microsoft could keep it for all other PCs in the world (very few at the time).
This was a GREAT bit of business thinking by Bill.
IBM said yes, what the heck, thinking the PC market was small beer.
So IBM brought out IBM DOS and Microsoft brought out MS DOS.
Soon there were millions of PCs, and most of them ran MS DOS.
This was the start of Bill's millions, because from DOS came Windows and we all know where that took us.
btw I worked for IBM for 30 years and was in the company when all this was happening.
Here is a picture of the complete Microsoft staff in 1978.
Bill is in the bottom left.
http://www.allfunpix.com/humor/pics/early_years.jpg
As it says at the top, would you have invested in them at the time.
If you had of done you would now be worth millions if not billions as most of the early Microsoft employees and investors are now millionaires.
We know he's not the devil because he set up the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation which is funded entirely out of his own pocket. Satan wouldn't be that generous... unless he's aiming for global domination by taking over the 3rd World Countries first... hmmm....
I'll get me boss to ask him direct. She's meeting with him on Wednesday this week!