What age did bill gates invent windows?

Answer 1

He started Microsoft and he was one of the major frontrunners of the Graphical User Interface system of computers, which he called windows.

Chances are, you are using windows, with, thanks to Windows Xp (home and pro), we can store hundreds or more of windows in stacks on the nice little blue taskbar on the bottom of the screen (unless you unlocked yours and moved it).

Sure, he is a nerd with a horrible hair style, but the Xbox 360 is gold, and he is credited with that!

This is inaccurate. Bill Gates did NOT invent the windows system. The idea of using Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointers - sometimes called the WIMP system - was first developed at the Palo Alto Research Center by a the employees of the Xerox company. They chose not to do anything with this and Steve Jobs at Apple, there on a visit, saw the potential and went with this system on his Apple computers.

Bill Gates was eventually persuaded of the virtues of this system, and when ordinary PCs became powerful enough to use it, he decided that Microsoft should produce a WIMP system of their own. This was called "Microsoft Windows" and eventually (by version 3.1) became widely adopted on PCs.

It took hundreds of people to write Microsoft Windows, and the original idea was already working on Apple computers. Bill Gates did contribute to the programming design, but cannot be said to have "invented" the WIMP system at any age.

Gates and Allen founded Microsoft back in 1975, Windows was not a really viable way of working with a PC until the mid-80s.