Bill Gates founded the software company Microsoft Corporation with his friend Paul Allen. He also cofounded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund global health and development programs. Bill Gates, in full William Henry Gates III, (born October 28, 1955, Seattle, Washington, U.S.), American computer programmer and entrepreneur who cofounded Microsoft Corporation, the world’s largest personal-computer software company.

Entrepreneur and businessman Bill Gates and his business partner Paul Allen founded and built the world's largest software business, Microsoft, through technological innovation, keen business...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announces its first major grant to polio eradication and becomes a core partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) – a $100 million challenge to Rotary, promising to match funds raised. Since the GPEI’s formation in 1988, polio eradication efforts have reduced polio cases by 99.9%.

Co-founder of Microsoft Corp.Founded: 1975. "Ultimately, the PC will be a window to everything people are interested in-and everything we need to know."-. Bill Gates. Some see him as an innovative...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was formally established in the summer of 1999. The new organization consolidated previous activities dating back to 1994, including family giving, the William H. Gates Foundation, the Microsoft Corporation's "Libraries Online" initiative, the Gates Library Foundation and later Gates Learning Foundation.