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From what I read, he did not want to attend Harvard but his parent told him to do it for at least one year and that is exactly what he did.
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It was actually Paul Allen that convinced him to drop out after the first year at Harvard to dedicate himself to starting a software company. Would his path have been different had he not attended Harvard? Nobody will ever know and Microsoft was struggling for a long time until his Harvard buddy, Steve Ballmer joined him in 1980. Within weeks of joining Microsoft, Ballmer orchestrated the acquisition of the precursor of DOS from Seattle Computer Products for $50,000 and largely managed the negotiatons with IBM which secured the future of the company.