Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies from cancer at 65

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies from cancer at 65

He’s best-known for creating Microsoft alongside Bill Gates in 1975, and is credited with coming up with the original name. More importantly, he landed the fateful deal that would make Microsoft a tech giant: he led a deal to buy Tim Paterson’s Quick and Dirty Operating System in 1980, helping his company land a deal …