Four Men Who Shaped Microsoft's Legacy

Four Men Who Shaped Microsoft's Legacy

Over the past fifty years, Microsoft has been molded by Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Ballmer, and Satya Nadella in the predominantly male tech industry. Gates and Allen, who were childhood friends from Seattle, established Microsoft in 1975 with the aim of placing a computer in every workplace and household. Gates William Henry Gates III was born in 1955 in Seattle, where as a young student at the age of 13, he started developing software programs. Gates left Harvard after his sophomore year to launch Microsoft alongside Allen. The childhood companions developed the MS-DOS operating system, later rebranded as Windows, which subsequently became dominant in professional environments. Gates earned a reputation as an intimidating and occasionally merciless leader. Critics contend that he misused Microsoft's dominance in the marketplace, leading to a successful antitrust lawsuit brought by the U.S. government in the late '90s. In the year 2000, Gates handed over …