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William Henry Gates III was born October 28th, 1955.
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Bill gates attends Lakeside School. Bill enrolled into Lakeside School at the age of 13 and stayed there for 6 years.
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After graduating from Lakeside School in 1973 Bill decided to attend Harvard University. Bill scored almost a perfect score on the SAT which lead to his acceptance into Harvard University.
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Bill Gates and Paul Allen form a partnership and call it Micro-Soft. Gates and Allen had been friends because they both went to Lakeside School.
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Bill Gates and Paul Allen register the trademark for "Microsoft". Gates publishes an open letter to computer hobbysists shunning them on sharing rater than paying for software.
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Gates takes a leave of absence from Harvard and sets up Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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The first international office for microsoft was founded Nov 1st in Japan. It was named ASCII Microsoft and which now called Microsoft Japan.
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Microsfts year end sales exceed 1 million dollars. Gates is known as a tough but ambitious worker.
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Microsoft new head quarters are relocated to Bellevue, Washington. This was a suburb of Gates hometown, Seattle.
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Microsoft partners with IBM to write the BASIC interpreter for its upcoming personal computer.
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Paul Allen has to leave Microsoft due to illness. Allen over a period of time was diagnosed with Hodgkin;s disease.
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Headquarters moved again to neighboring city Redmond, Washington.
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At age 31, Bill Gates becomes the youngest billionaire ever.
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Gates believed that people would someday decorate their homes with a revolving display of digital artwork using digital frames. This is why he created Corbis.
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Bill Gates marries Melinda French. Melinda French is a young women from the great state of Texas.
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The U.S v Microsoft was a set of consolidated civil actions filed against Microsoft Corporation.
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Bill Gates last full day at Microsoft. He stepped down and became a non-executive chairman.
