Paul Allen

Paul Allen was Born January 21, 1953 in Seattle, Washington. Paul's parents where Kenneth S. Allen, an associate director of University of Washington libraries and his mom was Faye G. Allen. Paul and Bill Gates formed the the multi billion dollar company Microsoft . He is the fifth richest man in America he is worth about 18 billion dollars. He is also the founder and chairman of Vulcan Inc. , and also chairman of Charter Communications. Paul also owns the Seattle Sea Hawks and the Portland Trail Blazers. In 2007 Time Magazine listed Paul under the 100 most Influential People in The World. Paul went to Lakeside School, a private school in Seattle, where he met Bill Gates which also and common interest in computers as Paul did. Paul attended Washington State University, and was a member in Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity. But after two years he dropped out of school to go to work. Paul later convinced Bill Gates to drop out of Harvard University so they could create Microsoft.Inc his later years He was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease.

Paul co-founded Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and in 1975 Paul began selling a BASIC programming system. In 1980, Paul made a deal for Microsoft to buy a operating system called 86-DOS for about 50,000 dollars. After a Dispute With Microsoft and IBM, Microsoft won a contract to make the finished program for a operating system of IBM'snewest PC. This is what created the foundation for Microsoft and started its growth. Microsoft Is the most well known operating system in the world.

This significant because this is the most well known operating system in the world for PC. Without the operating system our computers their will be no other operating system to replace it. Also Microsoft Office helps out with spreadsheets and with whatever work you might need. Basically without Microsoft their would be no use of PC's. Also they have came out wth a mp3/mp4 called zune