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Friends since childhood in Seattle, Gates and Allen founded Microsoft in 1975 with a stated goal of putting a computer in every office and home.
Gates
Born William Henry Gates III in 1955 in Seattle, he began writing software programs while a 13-year-old schoolboy.
Gates dropped out of Harvard in his junior year to start Microsoft with Allen.
The childhood friends created MS-DOS operating…
