The Bill Gates - Paul Allen Story


	The Bill Gates - Paul Allen Story

Marcariel

4-4-2008 9:49 AM

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microsoft, bill gates, paul allen, computer

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The story of how two tech geek friends built a billion dollar tech empire. And ... as they say ... the rest is history ... and more to come.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2bca8862-fcdf-4360-a711-0fed9bde6463/5107698B-C33A-41EF-B8E3-E7D7C020AFFC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/dayintech_0404" href="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/dayintech_0404" style="font-size: 11px;">www.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/dayintech_0404"><STRONG>1975: </STRONG> Bill Gates and Paul Allen create a partnership called Micro-soft. It will grow into one of the largest U.S. corporations and place them among the world's richest people.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/dayintech_0404"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wired.com/img/CAA1048C-9B75-48B4-9F03-90EE9FF94CB7" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/dayintech_0404"><DIV id="caption">
Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1983 just after completing MS Dos for the Tandy laptop and signing a contract to write MS-DOS for IBM.
<EM>Photo: Doug Wilson/Corbis</EM>
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