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Paul Allen, the Other Microsoft Guy
OUTSIDE OF COMPUTER CIRCLES, he’s a lot less famous than his former business partner, Bill Gates, and he is somewhat less rich. But at those levels, degrees of relative wealth hardly matter. Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft, is worth an estimated $18 billion, making him the fifth wealthiest person in America (Forbes 2007). Paul Allen Microsoft computerAllen and Gates met at a private school in Seattle when they were 14 and 12. In the mid-70s, they wrote a customized BASIC program for a very early microcomputer called the Altair and formed a legal partnership called Microsoft. When IBM began making personal computers in 1980, Microsoft got the contract to provide a disk operating system, which they licensed, rather than sold, to IBM, allowing Gates and Allen to supply IBM clone manufacturers with operating systems as well. MS-DOS became the industry standard, selling $32 million in software in the first three years. Read More...
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