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William Henry Gates III is born to attorney William Henry Gates II and Mary Gates,he started off at elementary school but His parents, teacher and principal new that he had unique brainpower so his school principal said he should attend a private school so his parents put him in Lakeside school in 1967
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Gates is enrolled in the Lakeside School, an exclusive private school in Seattle, where he befriends Paul Allen.Bill Gates and Paul Allen both share an interest in computers and programming.
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Bill Gates keeps up his great job of work at Harvard university because he's very knowledgable and smart
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Bill Gates signs up for a job with MITS.
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Bill Gates and Paul Allen register the trademark “Microsoft.” and now work together.
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Bill Gates takes a second leave and sets up his Microsoft software architechery job in Albuquerque, N.M., where MITS is headquartered.
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Bill Gates gains a reputation for being tough, but focused.
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MITS Microsoft headquarters are relocated to Bellevue, Wash., a suburb of Gates’ hometown, Seattle.
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Microsoft incorporates and buys the rights to the operating system “DOS” from Seattle Computer Products
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Paul Allen leaves Microsoft after developing a disease Microsoft announces Windows as an extension of its MS-DOS operating system.
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Microsoft headquarters move again, this time to nearby Redmond, Wash. Shortly after, the company goes public.
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At age 31, Gates becomes the youngest billionaire ever. He meets his future wife, Melinda French, at a Microsoft event in New York.
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Gates founds Corbis, an company of art and photography from public and private collections. Corbis later becomes a large art collection company.
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The Federal Trade Commission begins an investigation into possible collusion between IBM and Microsoft