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Was born in 1955. He grew up in Seattle, WA. He was born in the tenth moth of the year.
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Was enrolled in LakeSide School. This is were he became intrested in computers.
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Wrote the program BASIC. BASIC was wroten for MITS Altair microcomputer.
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Drops out of Harvard. Starts Microsoft with Paul Allen.
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Microsoft opens their first international office in Japan titled "ASCII Microsoft." This office is a division of the United States-based computer technology corporation Microsoft based in Japan.
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Corbis Corporation is an American company, based in Seattle, Washington, that sells and otherwise distributes photography and film footage and related rights.
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Gets married to Melinda French. Then go on to have 3 kids.
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United States v. Microsoft was a set of consolidated civil actions filed against Microsoft Corporation pursuant to the Sherman Antitrust Act on May 18, 1998 by the United States Department of Justice and 20 U.S. states.
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Was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
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Windows XP is introduced to the world as one of the best computer softwares of all time.
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Bill Leaves his work as a daily worker at microsoft. He keeps his position as a chairman at the board of directors.
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The Gates Foundation anounces it will donate $10 billion. This money will be used for vaccine reasearch.
