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Essay heading: Bill gates and his accomplishments
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After a year or two of working with this language, they were not making a big profit. They felt that Microsoft needed a change. Gates and Allen moved to Seattle in 1980 and teamed up with Harvard roommate Steve Ballmer.
In August of 1980 the three men went to IBM's corporate office in Miami, Florida to offer them a disc operating system...
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They convinced IBM that they needed "DOS" to compete with Apple. What IBM didn't know was that Gates didn't have a disc operating system. Microsoft bought the product and idea afterwards from a small company in Texas for $50,000, improved it, then brought it to IBM as their own. IBM purchased "DOS" from Microsoft for $125,000...
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