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BILL GATES William H. (Bill) Gates - Chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft. Born October 28, 1955 shortly after 9 PM. He is reported to be the richest private individual in the World topping the Forbes list of richest people for both 1996 and 1997 INVENTIONS Gates and his pal Paul Allen produced two programs in the 8th grade: one played tic-tac-toe. Before long, they were moonlighting as adolescent computer consultants for a local corporation. In high school, Gates and his friends devised a program that analyzed traffic data for his hometown Windows takes over Soon after Gates unveiled his Windows 3.0 program in 1990, the applications software industry was crying uncle