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Bill Gates was born into a family with a farther as a attorney and a mother who was a school teacher
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Gates enrolled into Lakside school, this was a exclusive provate school in Seattle. This is where Bill and Alllen first meet eachother.
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Gates entered Harvard to become a laywer but soon his moved his focus to another career.
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This was the first idea Gates had was to be the maker of the first worlds personal computer. He contacts Altair to talk about the idea, first not liking the idea, but evently accepting it.
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Gates and Allen, after working very hard and long on the development of software, the idea of Microsoft comes into prospetive and the trademark is made.
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Gates takes a leave of absence from Harvard to set up Microsoft.
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Microsofts sales reach one-million dollars in the first year.
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Microsoft buys the rights to own the "DOS" company and renames it MS-DOS.
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Allen leaves Microsoft due to developing Hodkin's disease.
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Gates becomes the youngest billionaire ever. He meetes his future wife at a Microsoft event in New York.
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Gates found corbis an art and photography company from public to private collections.
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Gates marries Melinda and the couple goes onto have three children.
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Gates becomes the worlds richest man with a fortune of 12.9 billion dollars.
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Gates steps down of CEO of Microsoft and Gates former dorm mate steps up and takes over the company.
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Gates announces that his role as the executive at Microsoft will end in the next two year. His idea is to spend more time working with the foundation.
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Gates lost his spot as the richest man on earth, held for 13 years on the forbes list.
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As of 2014 Microsoft is the worlds most used software coming in at 314 billion dollars in revenue.