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He wrote the software that set off the personal computer revolution. As microsoft celebrates its 25th anniversary this month, the company is unlikely to. Paul allen, the taciturn computer programmer who founded the software behemoth microsoft with bill gates when he was 22 and walked away eight years later with what would become one of the largest fortunes in the history of american capitalism, died monday in seattle. Microsoft bob, an early user interface, a smiley face with glasses, was introduced in january 1995. In 1981 these men changed how we live technology the guardian.
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