The software titan, the geek, the IT veteran – many titles can be entitled to a person who perceived a vision and dared to give it a real picture.

There are certain people who have an aptitude to go the different way and do something that leaves them distinguished from the crowd. "Bill Gates" is the one to name. A high school drop out who encashed on his leadership skills and distinguished abilities to interpret the need for a niche market for software; thus changing the entire IT outlook and Microsoft was born.

Microsoft the leader in software market – brain child of Bill Gates, till the time holds the title for ruling thoughts of million of consumers. Having a passion for coding and development from school times, Bill Gates developed a timetable program on teletype machine. He continued studies but an article in 1974 from a popular electronics magazine drew attention. He with Allen claimed to develop a BASIC language interpreter for the company and after that it was no looking back. The journey continued and in 1976 the duo patented their venture as Micro Soft.

Bill Gates founded "Microsoft" on November 26, 1976 with his school friend "Paul Allen" later on appointed Harvard University friend "Steve Ballmer" as the company’s first business manager on June 11, 1980.

Being a modern entrepreneur, Bill gates had a passion to create, without which life could not be imagined. The IBM’s offer to make an operating system for their computers proved a breakthrough deal. With this MS-DOS got birth and era of no looking backs in technical segments started. Down the line Microsoft prospered but it was 1985, when Windows were opened. An operating system with graphical interface and an extension to MS-DOS was incarnated. The incarnation changed the blooming computer revolution of those days and is still the ruling operating system in the market. It changed definition of computing and added new spectrum to what more can be achieved.

The biggest and motivating power backing these technical innovations was the vision of one man who loved technology and wanted to bring it down to every one’s desktop. He pursued the vision and succeeded to achieve it. It was 1986, after the first retail version of windows that Microsoft went public and on the very first date of trading the share prices rise from $21 to $28.

With Microsoft’s Windows floating in, the time started getting tougher. At one end, it was the pressure of bringing in something new to create a difference and at the other end it was rivals hitting hard. Apple initiated it by filing a lawsuit against the feel and look of graphical Windows but lost it. Microsoft’s territory was expanding and riding high on Windows but taking away the calms of rivals. The computer world was under extreme pressure of unavoidable dominance but nothing can be done to salvage.

Bill Gates achieved what he visioned and made computers as the most eternal part of our life. Taking the lead with its dominating Windows, Bill Gates sensed "Internet" as the next power and came up with "Internet Explorer" with Windows ’95 and did inevitable to Netscape Navigator. He is the man without whom the list for tech visionaries or any tech discussion is half done. He made the people to perceive computers with his eyes. He kept his work ongoing irrespective of the anti trust law suits or hitting back of rivals. "Microsoft" led and ruled the technical era with dominance and monopoly for over a decade. It was 2001 when XP the most successful (till date) operating system was launched by the company. The operating system is still the love of end users and created market chaos when Microsoft decided to roll out any new entry to the market.

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