This Week in History — Week of April 4
April 4, 1975: Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded the Microsoft Corporation. Childhood friends Gates and Allen founded the Microsoft Corporation in 1975, originally named Micro-Soft for microprocessors and software. Gates dropped out of Harvard University, and Allen quit his programming job to focus on the company, which produced software for the Altair 8800 computer....
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