The owner of Microsoft and one of the richest people in the world, who is he?

GThe owner of Microsoft is well known

 Bill Gates 

Bill Gates 

Bill Gates is a programmer and entrepreneur born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington, USA

He and Paul Allen founded Microsoft, and now Lil Gates owns the majority stake in Microsoft compared to Paul Allen, which is 9% of the company's shares.

Information about Bill Gates

• On April 4, 1975, after the resounding success of Bill Gates and Paul Allen with the Mets Company, the two decided to create a special partnership between them to develop software, and they called it "Micro-Soft", which is formed from the two words "Microcomputer" and "Software". Where Bill Gates owned 60% of the size of the company, while Paul Allen got the remaining 40%, Bill protested to obtain the largest share to devote himself to working in the company, while Paul was still a full-time employee at the Mets Company.

• In 1985, Microsoft produced the first version of the Windows operating system 1.0, which used the graphical application interface (GUI) inspired by the (Xerox PARC) system in addition to some parts of the interface available in the Apple Lisa and Mac systems (and Apple allowed Microsoft to use these parts based on on an agreement between the two companies. This system was an alternative to the MS-DOS operating system and a competitor to other operating systems available in the market. This new system enabled users to use the mouse pointer and move between several windows at the same time. It contains several applications such as: notepad, annual calendar, clock, calculator, in addition to the ability to activate the M- operating system. S Dos.

• At the end of 1982, Paul Allen was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease, a rare type of cancer that affects the lymphatic system in the body. As a result, Paul Allan resigned from Microsoft to devote himself to medical treatment, and Paul Allan left Microsoft forever, but that did not prevent the early friendship between my two Lakeside companions from continuing to this day.

• Microsoft founder Bill Gates announced that he was relinquishing the chairmanship of that company's board of directors in favor of John Thompson, one of the independent members of the board, to turn to work as a technology advisor to the company. Microsoft confirmed that Bill Gates, who has submitted his resignation from the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors, will become a technology advisor to the company, and will also assist the new General Manager, Satya Nadella, an American of Indian origin. Microsoft said in a statement that 46-year-old Indian-American Satya Nadella

• On May 18, 1998, the US Department of Justice and 20 US states filed a civil case against Microsoft, accusing it of monopolizing the software market in its handling of sales of the Windows operating system and Internet Explorer. 
• HAfter Microsoft released the Internet Explorer, it combined it with Windows to sell the two programs together in one CD. The court described this act as an (unfair) restriction of competition between different Internet browsers such as (Netscape Navigator) and Opera.

Bill Gates ends his relationship with his life partner (Melinda)

According to the agency, Bill Gates transferred to his ex-wife a total amount of approximately 2.5 billion dollars, after the official divorce was announced, and she had previously received securities worth more than 3 billion dollars.

Bill Gates Wealth

Exceeded 130 billion dollars as of August 2021