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Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington.
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Bill Gates meets his new life-long friend Paul Allen. Together they hack and get banned from computers in there school and they will soon start their own company together.
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Bill Gates and Paul Allen came up with "Traf-o-Data;" a computer program that monitered traffic in Seattle, Washington.
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In the Summer of 1974 Gates joined his high school friend Paul Allen in Boston, Massachusetts to work at Honeywell.
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Bill Gates started a partnership with Paul Allen to create Microsoft; a "micro-computing" program.
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Bill Gates wrote a letter to all of his followers of his software that he does not want people just to make new copies and to pirate them. Only 10% of the copies of the program were actually paid for.
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Microsoft Office included Microsoft Word and Excel with their new software.
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Bill Gates marries Melinda French in Hawaii
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Multiple chrities were combined to form the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Bill Gates now goes to schools' and explains to grades K through 12 how important it is to go to college ect.
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Gates's biggest awards consist of the honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizibeth II; also, the Order of the Aztec Eagle by the Mexican government.
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Gates announced he is leaving Microsoft to more time into his foundaation to help others that need the help and money.
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Gates now devotes all of his work into his foundation with his wife Melinda Gates.
