XENUMX died of cancer by Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen died in 65 years old due to complications from lymphoma. The technology pioneer had been battling cancer for years, he had received for 2009, but unfortunately the disease returned with metastases.

They were together with Bill Gates the creators of the Microsoft company. On his way to the company he experienced the enviable deal that would make Microsoft a tech giant. He led the company to buy Quick and Dirty Operating by Tim Paterson in 1980, helping his company land a deal to supply PC-DOS for IBM's first computers. He was an ordinary employee until 1982, and then remained on the company's board of directors until 2000. Since then he has held the position of executive director.

We read from wikipedia: According to some legend (which has a basis in fact), the greatest manufacturer of the time, IBM decided to build and present to the general public a personal computer. For this purpose one was needed . It was naturally addressed to Kildall and his company, but, according to legend, Dorothy was ready for a trip to an exotic island with her husband, and they informed IBM that negotiations between them could only begin after from fifteen days. IBM, outraged by the behavior of the Kildals, turns to the company of Gates and Allen (then known as Micro-Soft) and requests the development of an operating system for its computer. The two partners, after feverish efforts, deliver to IBM the operating system, which the company named PC-DOS. The success of the IBM PC was huge, and naturally this gave a huge boost to Microsoft, who, having the precedent of making BASIC exclusive to MITS, made sure to keep the rights to DOS by not granting exclusivity to IBM. Thus, when the "clones" of the IBM PC appeared, Microsoft was able to supply manufacturers with an operating system (with some differences from those of PC-DOS), which it named MS-DOS (an acronym for the words MicroSoft Disk Operating System ). This action put the company on a path of rapid growth, which has never been interrupted until today.

He was an inventor with 43 US patents under his name and was one of the most important investors in the technology world. He single-handedly backed Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne, founded the space transportation company Stratolaunch Systems, and started Viulcan Aerospace to make space travel more affordable. It has shares in Charter and Ticketmaster as well as numerous start-ups.

It has also expanded far beyond the normal technological sphere. He founded the Allen Institutes for Artificial Intelligence, Brain Science and Cell Science to Promote Information Technology and Medicine and the Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group for cutting-edge biotechnology. He has supported initiatives on the environment and against the ebola virus.

It is too early to say that Allen's death will affect his many organizations. There is no doubt that they will continue to function for a long time. And as said Steve Ballmer in a tribute, Allen was a "wonderful, bright and inspiring person." The technological world will be poorer without it.

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