90年代的电子工业的蓬勃发展为世界创造了上千个百万富翁及亿万富翁。在1998年10月12日出版的《福布斯》(《Forbes》)杂志中公布的美国400名超级富翁中,排名第一、第三以及第五的富翁都来自微软公司。他们分别为董事长兼首席执行官比尔·盖茨(Bill Gates),创史人之一保罗·爱伦(Paul Allen)和总裁斯蒂文·鲍尔默(StevenBallmer)。排名第四位的是Dell计算机公司的董事长兼首席执行 The flourishing development of the electronics industry in the 1990s created thousands of millionaires and billionaires in the world. Of the 400 millionaires in the United States that were published in the Forbes magazine published on October 12, 1998, the top three, and the fifth richest are from Microsoft. They are Bill Gates, chairman and chief executive, Paul Allen, one of the founders, and Steven Ballmer, president. Ranked fourth is the chairman and chief executive of Dell Computer Corporation