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We all need clients installed in our operating system (OS). And Windows® has been the most popular one over the decades. When it comes to this popular OS, nobody will fail to think of the richest——Bill Gates. communication With the development of the Internet, we are now living in a world of information and communication. But the Internet is not the only thing to be appreciated. Because we need clients, too. Internet clients Whether you are browsing the web Chatting with friends Or listening to information Paul Gardner Allen, born on January 21, 1953, is an American investor(投资人) and philanthropist(慈善家) who co-founded Microsoft® with Bill Gates and is one of the wealthiest people in the world with a personal wealth of $13.5 billion as of 2010. Brief Introduction Life and career Early years Allen attended Lakeside School(湖滨中学), a private school in Seattle, and befriended Bill Gates, who was almost three years his junior but shared a common enthusiasm for computers. They used Lakeside‘s teletype terminal (电传终端) to develop their programming skills on several computer systems. After graduation, Allen attended Washington State University but dropped out after two years in order to work as a programmer for Honeywell (霍尼韦尔) in Boston, placing him near his old friend again. Allen later convinced Gates to drop out of Harvard University in order to create Microsoft. Life and career Allen co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In 1980, after promising to deliver IBM a Disk Operating System (DOS,磁盘操作系统) they had not yet developed for the Intel 8088-based PC(personal computer,个人电脑), Allen spearheaded a deal for Microsoft to purchase a Quick and Dirty Operating System (QDOS,怎么翻译成中文还真没查到- -). As a result, Microsoft was able to secure a contract to supply the DOS that would run on IBM‘s PC line. This contract with IBM was the watershed (分水岭) in Microsoft history that led to Allen and Gates‘s fabulous we