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Bill Gates was born on Oct. 28 1955
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During this time (age 11-12), Bill's parents began noticing that he was bored at school even though he was very intelligent.
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At age 13, Bill Gates began having a strong interest in computer programming.
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At age 13, Bill was enrolled in an exclusive preparatory school.
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At age 15, Bill began his first company with his friend Paul Allen called "Traf-O-Data."
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Bill Gates graduated from Lakeside in 1973.
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Bill starts attending Harvard University.
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Bill dropped out of college with his friend Paul and begins working at Honeywell.
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Bill Gates and Paul Allen create a company they called "Micro-Soft."
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Bill wrote an open letter that described the importance of paying for computer software instead of just getting it for free.
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Bill and his friend Allen had to sue the company called MITS so they could retain rights to their computer software.
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Bill and Allen move their company to Bellevue, Washington.
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Microsoft made software for IBM, which was a huge deal to such a small computer company at the time.
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By 1983, Microsoft was opening offices in Great Britain and Japan.
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In Nov. 1985, Microsoft launched their software called Windows.
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Microsoft went public, offering each share at $21.
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In this year, at age 32, Bill Gates became a billionaire.
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Bill Gates was married to Melinda Gates on January 1, 1994.
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In the year 2000, Bill and Melinda started a foundation with an initial contribution of $28 billion.
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In February 2014, Bill Gates stepped down as the Chairman of Microsoft.
