Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Dead at 65

Paul Allen, the billionaire who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975 is dead.Allen succumbed to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He died Monday afternoon at in his hometown of Seattle.

Allen, whose wealth was estimated North of $20 Billion, announced 2 weeks ago his cancer had returned after 9 years in remission.

Allen and Gates, both college dropouts, hatched the idea for Microsoft in Albuquerque. They designed software for the yet-to-explode person computer revolution.

The 2 men met when they were teenage students at Lakeside School in Seattle. They became fast friends and bonded over the love of computers. The two would go "dumpster diving" for computer program code. Allen, who dropped out…