Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: A cikin 1975, a Albuquerque, New Mexico, Allen da Gates sun fara tallata mai fassarar harshe na BASIC. Allen ya zo da asalin sunan "Micro-Soft" (haɗin "microcomputer" da "software"), a cewar wani labarin mujallar Fortune na 1995. A cikin 1980, bayan Microsoft ya yi alƙawarin isar da IBM tsarin sarrafa faifai (DOS) don IBM PC na asali, kodayake ba su ci gaba da ɗaya ba, Allen ya jagoranci yarjejeniyar Microsoft don siyan QDOS (Tsarin Gudanar da Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Saurin Sakamakon wannan ma'amala, Microsoft ya sami damar tabbatar da kwangila don samar da DOS wanda daga ƙarshe zai gudana akan layin PC na IBM. Wannan kwangilar da IBM ta tabbatar da ruwa a cikin tarihin Microsoft wanda ya jagoranci Allen da Gates 'dukiya da nasara. Allen ya bar Microsoft a cikin 1982 bayan ya sami cutar cutar lymphoma ta Hodgkin. An bayar da rahoton cewa Gates ya nemi Allen ya ba shi wasu hannun jarinsa don ramawa da yawan aikin da Gates ke yi. A cewar Allen, Gates ya ce tunda ya "yi kusan komai akan BASIC", yakamata a raba kamfanin 60<unk>40 a cikin ni'imar sa. Allen ya yarda da wannan tsari, wanda Gates ya sake yin shawarwari daga baya zuwa 64 <unk> 36. A cikin 1983, Gates ya yi ƙoƙari ya sayi Allen a $ 5 a kowane hannun jari amma Allen ya ƙi kuma ya bar kamfanin tare da hannun jarinsa. Wannan ya sa Allen ya zama attajiri lokacin da Microsoft ya shiga jama'a.Allen ya yi murabus daga matsayinsa a kwamitin gudanarwa na Microsoft a ranar 9 ga Nuwamba, 2000. Ya kasance a matsayin babban mai ba da shawara kan dabarun gudanarwa na kamfanin. A cikin Janairu 2014, har yanzu yana riƙe da hannun jari miliyan 100 na Microsoft.  Tambaya: Wane kamfani ne ya samu kwangila?
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