Bill Gates celebrates 60th birthday

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 28, ARMENPRESS. Bill Gates celebrates 60th birthday. Sixty years ago today, William Henry Gates III was born. And a mere twenty years after that, Gates and partner Paul Allen formed Microsoft (or Micro-Soft, as it was then known) in order to sell their BASIC interpreter for the MITS Altair 8800.

“Armenpress” reports referring to Entrepreneur that while Bill Gates may not be as mythologized in popular culture as Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg, there is no denying his impact on the tech world and beyond.

The man who produced the operating system that would usher in the era of the personal computer is keeping himself plenty busy these days. Through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he's attempting to develop vaccines and create accessible education programs in underdeveloped nations.

Gates was 19 when he started Microsoft in 1975.