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Bill Gates was born in Seatle, Washington on October 28th, 1995.
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He first attended this school at the age of 13. This was a exclusive preparatory school. This is where he really started getting interested in computers and programming.
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He graduated from school and enrolled in Harvard College in the fall of 1973.
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They form a partnership and co-found Micro Soft which is Microsoft Corp in todays day.
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This international office was founded on November 1st, 1978. This office was founded in Japan. It was titled "ASCII Microsoft".
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Microsoft moved its headquarters to Bellevue, Washington
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He develops this for IBM and two million copies are sold by 1984.
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Microsoft becomes incorporated and Gates became the Chairman of the board.
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He was worth 1.25 billion dollars at the age of 31. That record was later broken by Mark Zuckerberg.
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Corbis is a digital image company. This company distributes photography and film footage and related rights.
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They get married in Dallas, Texas and end up having three kids
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The United States department of Justice all file lawsuits accusing microsoft of using illegal practices. Microsoft later reaches a settlement with the Justice Department.
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Gates was named person of the year in Times Magazine. He was named it along with his wife.
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Gates retires from day-to-day work at Microsoft.
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Gates steps down as the chairman of Microsft. He will stay on the board of directors and he will now be a technology advisor.
