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==History and life==
==History and life==
[[File:NMALBmicrosoft pike2.jpg|right|300px|thumb|A monument erected where Bill Gates obtained the MS-DOS program from a Sandia Lab employee.<ref>https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/13927</ref> The monument stands a few miles down the road from where [[David Greenglass]] held his famous rendezvous with [[Harry Gold]] in the notorious [[Julius Rosenberg|Rosenberg case]] and where [[Lona Cohen]] received atomic espionage information from her [[KGB]] contacts at [[Los Alamos]] some 30 years earlier, unofficially kicking off the [[Cold War]].<ref>https://www.albuquerquebedandbreakfasts.com/history.htm</ref> When the Cold War ended, Microsoft was in the driver's seat of the post-Cold War era.]]
[[File:NMALBmicrosoft pike2.jpg|right|300px|thumb|A monument stands where Bill Gates obtained the MS-DOS program from a Sandia Lab employee.<ref>https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/13927</ref> The plaque was erected a few miles down the road from where [[David Greenglass]] held his famous rendezvous with [[Harry Gold]] in the notorious [[Julius Rosenberg|Rosenberg case]] and where [[Lona Cohen]] received atomic espionage information from her [[KGB]] contacts at [[Los Alamos]] some 30 years earlier, unofficially kicking off the [[Cold War]].<ref>https://www.albuquerquebedandbreakfasts.com/history.htm</ref> When the Cold War ended, Microsoft was in the driver's seat of the post-Cold War era.]]
Gates interest in computers began at age 13. To avoid the draft, Gates was enrolled at [[Harvard]] at 17; he dropped out in his sophomore year when [[Selective Service]] registration was suspended early in April 1975. He moved to [[Albuquerque]], [[New Mexico]] and set up a storefront outside the gate of Sandia National Laboratories under the name Microsoft in July. There he purchased from a government employee on Kirtland airbase, where Sandia labs is housed, what he later patented as [[MS-DOS]].
Gates interest in computers began at age 13. To avoid the draft, Gates was enrolled at [[Harvard]] at 17; he dropped out in his sophomore year when [[Selective Service]] registration was suspended early in April 1975. He moved to [[Albuquerque]], [[New Mexico]] and set up a storefront outside the gate of Sandia National Laboratories under the name Microsoft in July. There he purchased from a government employee on Kirtland airbase, where Sandia labs is housed, what he later patented as [[MS-DOS]].