Farewell Bill Gates
Posted on 12 May 2008 at 12:38
Others believe Bill will be missed for more than the odd rollocking. "Gates' legacy is immense," says Werbach. "It's hard to remember just how improbable it was that the operating system would become the economic centre of the computer industry. The operating system was a low-level utility for scheduling resource allocation, which Microsoft turned into the engine for perhaps the most successful company in the history of capitalism.
"Gates is also the model for all of today's leading internet entrepreneurs: even once he was successful and fabulously rich at an early age, he didn't slack off because he kept seeing new challenges for the company. One can only hope the tech billionaires who came after Gates follow in his footsteps in trying to make the world a better place as well."
Author: Jack Schofield
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