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Bill Gates was born on Seattle, Washington, U.S. His parents, William H. Gates and Sr.Mary Maxwell Gates and his sisters Kristianne and Libby lived in Medina, Washington, U.S
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Bill Gates began his coding career at 13 years old in the Lakeside School, a private preparatory school.
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Bill Gates founded Microsoft with his friend Paul Allen, when he formed a contract with MITTS to develop a basic operating system for their microcomputers.
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Microsoft sold the operating system to other clone computer companies that they made for IBM computers, making them the leading operating system manufacture from 1980 to present day.
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Microsoft's first version of windows was released and became an instant hit.
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Bill Gates marries Melinda French from Dallas, Texas on New Years day 1994. They have three children: Jennifer Katharine (born 1996), Phoebe Adele (born 2002), and Rory John (born 1999).
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In 1995 Windows 95 was released further improving the operating system business.
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In 2000, Gates and his wife combined three family foundations to create the charitable "Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation," which was identified by the Funds for NGOs company in 2013, as the world's wealthiest charitable foundation, with assets reportedly valued at more than $34.6 billion.
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Windows XP is released in 2001 with a redesigned user interface trying to improve usability.
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Windows 7 was released to for the wireless world of computing and evidently Laptops were out selling Desktop.