Microsoft Launches Windows ME.
The Millennium Edition was the last of the operating systems of the Windows 9x series.
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Bill Gates became the richest man in the world with a net worth of $12.9 billion.
Windows 1.0 released
Bill Gates stepped down as chairman of Microsoft Corporation.
After two and a half years of Alpha and Beta development, the full version of Minecraft was released.
Microsoft released the Windows 7 operating system.
