The early years Gates, born on October 28, 1955, had a passion for computers right from his school days. He made money from software even while at school!
Bill Gates and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen studied together in high school. In Lakeside Prep School, they had the first tryst with computers. [...]

At the end of the month, Bill Gates is stepping down as chief software architect of Microsoft, and retiring from his day-to-day role at Microsoft, the company he co-founded and led for most of the past 30 years. Michael J. Miller, former PC Magazine Editor-in-Chief, sat down with him to look back at how the [...]