Question

Sensing that the future of computing was in personal computers and that computers' power would reside not in their size but in the software that ran them, _____________ dropped out of Harvard University in 1975 and, with his friend _____________, founded Microsoft Corporation.

Answer 1

Answer:

Bill Gates

Paul Allen

Explanation:

Sensing that the future of computing was in personal computers and that computers' power would reside not in their size but in the software that ran them, Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard University in 1975 and, with his friend Paul Allen, founded Microsoft Corporation.

Childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen sought to make a business utilizing their shared skills in computer programming. In 1972, they founded Traf-O-Data which sold a rudimentary computer to track and analyze automobile traffic data. Gates enrolled at Harvard while Allen pursued a degree in computer science at Washington State University, though he later dropped out of school to work at Honeywell.