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over a decade and a half the duo built the most successful software company in the world.
In the 1987 issue of the Forbes magazine, Bill Gates was listed among the 400
richest people in America. He was estimated to be worth $1.25 billion and was the
world’s youngest self-made billionaire to be recognized by the magazine. He was 31
years old. The honor would be later held by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at
the age of 23 in 2008.
Although MS DOS had established Bill Gates’s Microsoft among the most successful
and leading companies in the technology revolution, they were yet to give their
finest and biggest offering – Windows. It was arguably the game-changer in
personal computer software. Windows 95 was released to enthusiastic customers
in the August of 1995 and turned out to be the operating system (OS) that changed
everything. Windows is currently installed in high majority of computers (some
estimating it close to 90 percent) in the world.
The PC would do exactly that and make the computer personal with user friendly tools or
software like Windows, Office, Paint and many others. Thus computing, which was remote
and foreign to most people, would become a personal and easy experience. Establishing
Microsoft in the early days of microcomputers, its founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen
dreamt of putting a PC on every desk and every home. A dream that would propel a small