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A Surveying Study of Bill Gates and Microsoft Abstract: Bill Gates is the head of the software company Microsoft and is one of the world’s wealthiest men. He had already been interested in computer during his primary school period, and he could write computer programming by himself at 13. Several years later, he established the Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States. Known for its interviewing process with obscure questions, various studies and ratings were generally favorable to Microsofts diversity within the company as well as its overall environmental impact with the exception of the electronics portion of the business. Key Words: Bill Gates; Microsoft; Microsoft Corporation; charity work Bill Gates’ early life 1.1 Family Bill Gates born on Oct. 28, 1955, he grew up in Seattle with his two sisters. Their father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. Their late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent, and chairwoman of United Way International. Education Gates attended public elementary school and the private Lakeside School. There, he discovered his interest in software and began programming computers at age 13. In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer - the MITS Altair. Microsoft Corporation Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established in 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. How did Bill Gates establish it? Started his corporation