Bill Gates remained in contact with Paul Allen, and he joined him at Honeywell during the summer of 1974. The MITS Altair 8800 was released the following year. The new computer was based on the Intel 8080 CPU, and Gates and Allen saw this as the opportunity to start their own computer software company. Gates dropped out of Harvard at this time. He had talked over this decision with his parents, who were supportive of him after seeing how much their son wanted to start his own company. Gates explained his decision to leave Harvard, saying "...if things [Microsoft] hadn't worked out,
Bill Gates Must Die it was by Microsoft, and we didn't want to have Microsoft come after this." The song later appeared on the Fortune Records' local music compilation album "Fortune Cookies". Reviewing the Fortune Records' compilation album "Fortune Cookies", "Allmusic"s Denise Sullivan called "Bill Gates Must Die" an "adolescent rock rant." "CMJ New Music Monthly" called the song "a soon-to-be hit." "Ink 19"s Jason Feifer called it one of the "a few sloppy mounds of music [...] that provides nothing particularly special or new." "Allmusic"s Matt Fink reviewed "Bill Gates Must Die" with "the big bruising guitars [...] drive lyrics that are surprisingly