Microsoft and the world of technology mourn: Paul Allen passes away

One autumn morning the tech world is in mourning and Microsoft could fly a flag at half mast at its headquarters. Paul Allen, the one who was the founder together with Bill Gates of the Redmond-based company, has died at the age of 65, a victim of that modern curse that grips many people, cancer.

The cursed disease, the one that took Steve Jobs from us on October 6 and that we all suffered in a more or less direct way, has taken Allen, history of technology since he founded a company with Gates 43 years ago that would mean a complete revolution in the world of software and personal computers.

Paul Allen passed away Monday afternoon in Seattle, surrounded by his family, a victim of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, cancer in blood lymphocytes. And although it was true that it was Bill Gates who has monopolized all the prominence, the influence of Paul Allen has been notable in the beginnings of Microsoft. The company would not be the same without Allen, a key figure in the founding of Microsoft in 1975. His family made the news public in a statement through his sister Jody Allen:

Allen put aside the company he had founded when in 1983, when he was first diagnosed with the disease the. A period in which he diversified his occupations. He thus became part of the history of the Portland Trail Blazers in the NBA and the Seattle Seahawks in the NFL. And in fact, condolences have not been long in coming from all areas of which he was a part and from the technological world in general.

Personalities such as Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, the great historical rival of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, current CEO of Microsoft, or Jeff Bezos, from Amazon, have expressed sorrow on social networks in whichhave expressed their support for the family and Microsoft for the loss

Allen, in addition to his leading role at Microsoft, was also part of history by founding other companies with more or less success, but all in the technological field. This is the case of Stratolaunch Systems, founded in 2011, a company dedicated to aeronautics. In addition, together with his sister Joey, he had created Vulcan Inc, a Seattle-based entity aimed at managing philanthropic tasks. He had also created other entities such as the Allen Institute for Brain Science, the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and the Institute of Cellular Science

Paul Allen was also one of the richest people in the world with an estimated fortune, according to Forbes, of 21.7 billion dollars. This placed him in position number 40 among the most important fortunes on the planet.

Rest in peace.

Source | CNBC