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Gates was born in Seattle, Washingtong, U.S.A
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Bill Gates started studying at Harvard University in 1973 where he spent time with Paul Allen. Gates and Allen worked on a version of the programming language BASIC, that was the basis for the MITS Altair
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Microsoft was an abbreviation of microcomputer software. It soon became simply "Microsoft"® and went on to completely change the way people use computers.
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In 1979 Microsoft started to grow (16 employees). At that moment Bill Gates decides to move to Seattle.
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In 1980 IBM hired Microsoft to write the operative system of IBM PC,
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One month before the launching of the PC, Microsoft bought all the rights of 86-DOS SCP by 50,000 dollars. It was adaptable to all the existing programmes..Microsoft licencsed QDOS to IBM,and it became PC-DOS 1.0. This license allowed Microsoft to sell DOS to other companies.
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It was Microsoft's first attempt to implement a multi-tasking graphical user interface-based operating environment on the PC platform. Windows 1.0 was the first version of Windows launched. It was succeeded by Windows 2.0.
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It improved the interphase of the user as well as the multifuncion
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It was criticized because it was too slow
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It improved its functionality including the recording of programmes.
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It had important technologic changes specially as regards security
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