Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies at 65
By Reuters
16 October 2018 |
9:06 am
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, the man who persuaded school-friend Bill Gates to drop out of Harvard to start what became the world's biggest software company, died on Monday at the age of 65, his family said.
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