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History of Microsoft
Starting Out
Bill Gates and his friend Paul Allen formed a company in 1970 to study traffic using computers. In 1974, the creators of a new computer, the Altair 8800 recommended Bill and Paul’s company to write a language program for their computer. Bill then moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to start Microsoft.