William Henry Gates III (Bill) was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. Bill went to Lakeside School where he was excellent in math and science and did well in drama and English.Bill became interested in computer programming when he was 13. At Lakeside, Bill met Paul Allen, who shared his interest in computers. At age 17, Bill and Allen were paid $20,000 for Traf-O-Data, a program used to count traffic.In early 1973, he scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT and was accepted by Harvard University. There Bill met Steve Ballmer - a Microsoft’s CEO. Meanwhile, Paul Allen dropped out of Washington College to work on computers at Honeywell Corporation. He convinced Bill Gates to leave Harvard and and they together started a new software company in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They called it Micro-Soft. This name was later changed to Microsoft when the company was moved to Bellevue, Washington.In 1980, IBM asked Microsoft to write software to run their new personal computer, the IBM PC. Over the years, Microsoft developed many new technologies and some of the world’s most popular software and products such as Word and Power Point. Microsoft has become one of the largest conmpanies in the world.
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