Bill Gates (oct 28, 1955 – feb 4, 2020)

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Bill Gates, philanthropist and co-founder of microsoft, was among the most important people contributing to the modern computer age.
REASONS WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT:
1) Bill gates co-founded Microsoft, the company that now dominates the home computer industry
2) MS-DOS, one of microsoft's first operating systems, was used widely for businesses on it's release and is still used by some companies today
3) Microsoft produced the Windows operating systems which became the most widely used OS in the world

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