GATES BILL. THE INGENIOUS PREDICTION

Besides brilliant possession of marketing technologies, Gates possessed an ingenious prediction of in what direction the computer facilities will develop. He always considered that computers should be more friendly to consumers and bring more advantage in an everyday life of people. Therefore it has set for itself(himself) a problem - to create an operating system with the graphic interface. The given project has appeared the most difficult and long in the history Microsoft and has come to the end with stunning success only thanks to persistence of its author.

In November, 1983 Gates has officially declared in New York about Windows, ' the graphic user interface for DOS'. However, though employees Microsoft also recollect now that ' over Windows we worked as a horse ', work went with the big delays connected with organizational problems. Gates could work more effectively if has limited a circle of the activity. In second half of 1984 the decision to reorganise company activity was accepted, having divided it into two basic directions: creation of operating systems and working out of commercial applied programs.

Delays with release Windows disturbed Gates more and more. For this work 30 experts have been thrown. They worked all day and night, achieving that the program was smaller on the size, but possessed the big speed. As a whole on creation of the first version Windows which has appeared in November, 1985, it has been spent 110 thousand man-hours of working hours.

Named ' Windows' that in transfer means ' Windows ', it in direct and figurative sense has opened before users wide windows in the immense computer world, considerably having expanded possibilities for work with the various information.