Bill Gates and Paul Allen were best of friends from childhood. Both shared a passion for computers. In those days, computers were not easily accessible for kids as they are today. They used to skip classes to spend time in the school computer room to understand its programming.
After school, Gates went to Harvard to study law, while Allen started to work as a programmer in Boston. Not long after, Gates returned to work on computers. Around the same time, Altair 8800, a new micro-computer hit the market, Gates and Allen worked to improve its programming language; they worked on BASIC and came up with Altair BASIC.
This incident inspired the friends to start a company of their own. The result was Microsoft, one of the world’s largest developers of personal-computer software systems and applications.
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