Since 1950s , there are lot of things had been invented and discovered, just like the DNA structure revealed, the transistors invented and Grace Hopper Invents the Computer Compiler that helps to fill the gap between computer programmers and business. They had contributed their life to have a meaningful works in order to clear the scars left in the World War II. Many mathematicians and scientists work hard to invent a machine that performs a task or such as arithmetic computations. So the machine named Computer, a machine that can computes through a sets of programs. Now, are in this modern generation because of many brilliant minds joined together to make our living easier and efficient. One of them is the creators of the Apple Inc., Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak. They have successful inventions like Apple II, but just like any other companies, the Apple Inc. faced financial woes in the 1990s. That leads Steven Jobs no choice to persuaded longtime rival company, Microsoft to invest millions of dollars in order to stay in competition.
The Microsoft Corporation is the largest computer software company in the world founded by Bill Gates with partnership with his high school friend Paul Allen. They are both born in Seattle, Washington and attended in the same school, the Lakeside School, where they had met. Paul Allen is born on January 21, 1953 three years older than Bill Gates with whom he shared his enthusiasm in the computers. After in Paul Allen graduated in high school, he went to Washington State University, but left the college in 1974 and moved in Boston, Massachusetts. He works in Honeywell, Inc., a leading manufacturer of automation and control systems. Gates was enrolled at Harvard University, but Allen persuaded him to work also in Honeywell as a programmer. The two developed a workable version of BASIC programming for the first personal computer, Altair 8800. They began their business and Allen came up with the name of Microsoft but at the same time, Allen joined the Micro Instrumentation Telemetry Systems (MITS) as the Director of Software. They moved in Albuquerque, New Mexico where the Altair is manufactured. Allen purchased the Quick and Dirty Operating System by Tim Paterson and they have reinvented it. They released MS-DOS operating system that became highly successful, which eventually used for IBMs PC line. They had made contract with IBM which led the two founders of Microsofts wealth and success. Allen contributes a lot to develop some of the companys most innovative and the most popular products, including the Windows operating system, the Microsoft Word application and also the Microsoft Mouse. Paul Allen resigned to his position at Microsoft after he found out that he had a Hodgkins disease, a form of cancer. But he remained on the company as one of the board of directors. In the late 1990s, the stock of Microsoft enormously increased and making Allen one of the richest man in the world. Today, he is in 21th place in the Forbes 400 having estimated net worth 18.6 billion dollars.