Computer Apple brought Bill Gates's wife into the technology world

Melinda, a charming, intelligent woman with her husband who built a big career at Microsoft, since 14 years old has been plying the Apple II machine, learning the BASIC programming language and teaching the children in the summer vacation. .

Two years later, her father bought the Apple III computer and the machine made her drunk. " I helped my father manage the book business, control revenues and expenditures on it, " Melinda said. It is these Apple products that inspired her to come to computer science.

" Every day she has a goal, " recalls Susan Bauer, a math and computer teacher at Ursuline Academy for girls in Dallas. " Only Ursuline's first two students can enter high school and that position is Melinda's study purpose ." Later, Melinda earned her BA (BA) degree from Duke University in computer science and economics, and an MBA in business administration.

When Melinda practiced at IBM, she was directed to Microsoft. Arriving in Seattle in 1987 as a marketing director for Word's "predecessor" software, Melinda was 22 years old and still did not know what Microsoft would bring her. " Everyone there is very smart and has the potential to change the world, " she said. However, Melinda did not know that she was the youngest person to be recruited and the only woman in the 10 MBAs. But the company has a strange culture, where Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer always bother and urge the directors, making her think about leaving.

But four months later, during a PC Expo in New York, Melinda dined with the top figures of the company. "Bill is more funny than I thought," she recalls. But Bill Gates said that Melinda's eyes were mesmerizing him. Then on a Saturday afternoon that fall, they happened to meet in the car park of the company. " We've already talked to each other, haven't we ," Bill said. " Will you work with me for 2 weeks from Friday night? "

And they began to see each other to build a Microsoft career with software for the PC world. Melinda is considered a woman who understands the human heart and has held the position of human resources manager at the company, helping Ballmer outline the plans when he moved to the position of CEO .