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Wiliam Henry Gates lll is bron to attorney .
Wiliam Gates ll and mary gates,a schoolteacher, University of
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Wiliam Henry Gates lll is bron to attorney .
Wiliam Gates ll and mary gates,a schoolteacher, University of
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Gates is enrolled in the lakeside school, an exclusive private school in seattle where he befriends paul allen.the two students share an interest in computers.Gates 2005 keynote speech at lakeside school.
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Gates enters harvard as pre_law major,but soon shifts focus. He
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Gates takes a second leave of absence from Harvard and sets up microsoft in albuquerque,.n.m..,where mlts is headquartered.
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Microsoft's year_end sales exceed $1 million. Gate gains a reputayion for being tough,but focused.
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Microsoft headquarters are relocated to Bellevue.Wash., a suburb
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Microsoft incorporates and buys the rights to the operating system"DOS" from seattle company products,renamed MS_DOS and the company licenses it to LBM for the company's new personal computer.
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Allen leaves Microsoft after developing hodgkin's disease. Microsoft announces windows as an extension of its MS_DOS operating
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Microsoft headquarters move again this time to nearby redmond, wash. shortly after, the company goes pubic.
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At age 31, Gates becomes the youngest billionaire ever.at a microsoft event in New york.
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In may , the U.S.Justice deoartment charges micosoft with engaging in anticompetitive and exclusionary practices designed to maintain its monopoly in personal computer operating systems.
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Gates publishes another best_ selling book, Business@the speed of thought, about the interconnectedness of business and technology. the television network TNTairs a made_for_TV movie about the emergence of Apple and Micosoft called pirates of silicon valley.
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Gates steps down as CEO of micrsosft.
