In early 1973, Bill Gates served as a congressional page in the U.S House of Representatives. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT and was accepted by Harvard University. Steve Ballmer, who became CEO of Microsoft after Bill retired, was also a student there. Paul Allen dropped out of Washington College to work on computers at Honeywell. Bill worked for Honeywell in the summer of 1974. Bill left Harvard to join Paul in starting a new software company in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
They called it Micro-Soft. This was soon changed to Microsoft, and they moved their company to Bellevue, Washington.