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Four men loom large in Microsoft history

Bill Gates and Paul Allen, childhood friends from Seattle, founded Microsoft in 1975 with the goal of putting a computer in every office and home.
Gates, born in 1955, began programming as a 13-year-old and dropped out of Harvard to start Microsoft with Allen after Allen showed him a magazine about a new computer chip.
Microsoft's success was built on MS-DOS, later renamed Windows, which dominated office work, and the company was shaped by Gates, Allen, Steve Ballmer, and Satya Nadella over the last half-century in a male-dominated tech world.
Gates ceded the CEO position to Ballmer in 2000 and resigned from the board in 2020 after Microsoft acknowledged an 'intimate' relationship with an employee, later establishing a charitable foundation with his then-wife Melinda, though she faulted him for his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Nadella took over as CEO in 2014, guiding Microsoft's transition to a 'cloud-first, mobile-first world' and investing heavily in AI, including OpenAI, while Gates became a target of conspiracy theorists due to his support for vaccine campaigns and agriculture programs.

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