Microsoft was at the center of the personal computer revolution, and particularly the creation of a software market where you went out to lots of companies, and encouraged them to write software for different applications, mundane applications, wild applications. That idea that you would encourage people to be creative, and build software, and there would be a whole industry around that.
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Bill Gates
Co-founder of Microsoft; co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
United States · b. 1955
Technology
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Co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975 and led it as chief executive until 2000. Since 2000 has worked chiefly through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on global health and development.
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