GATES BILL. SUCCESSFUL CAPITAL INVESTMENTS

In August, 1981 it has been widely declared release of the new computer equipped MS-DOS. The licence agreement with IBM provided payments to firm Microsoft for each sold copy of their software products that has provided to Gates considerable dividends thanks to the success, fallen to in 80th Improbable popularity of both products has resulted a lot of this computer further in that, as architecture Intel, both computers IBM, and programs Microsoft actually became branch standards.

At this particular time the succeeding chairman of the company has made some successful capital investments. In the early eighties Gates has risked 40 thousand dollars, having spent them for actions of the industrial enterprises which, in its opinion, were estimated below the valid cost. The next years the price of its share portfolio has reached 1 million dollars. Having received such income, Gates has bought for 780 thousand dollars house with a kind on lake Washington and the closed 30-foot swimming pool. Subsequently it has considerably reconstructed it, having transformed into the present manor which has managed to it in 10 million dollars. Now it includes 45 800 sq. foots of a floor space, library from 14 thousand books, a lunch hall on 100 persons, theatre, courts, underground garage on 20 cars and a reservoir in length of 350 foots for its high-speed boats.

As MS-DOS has strongly affirmed in the market, Gates has paid the attention to advancement of own applied programs. Its idea was very simple: name Microsoft already in itself should involve buyers of the applied software.

In the Spring of 1983 Microsoft has let out the applied program - it became the first word-processor. This program named further MS-Word, has gained huge distribution. In two years has been published MS-Excel - the electronic tabular processor, and already in the beginning of 1987 in the market of financial spreadsheets to it belonged about 90% of sale. Soon it became known that by results of current fiscal year Microsoft became the first among the companies on working out of the software and for the first time has overtaken in the lead before Lotus. Later, in 1991, its founder will tell to reporters: ' Revolution is finished. Bill Gates has won. The present industry of the software is a Kingdom dead '.