Farewell William Gates III - Thank you

For over 15 years, Bill Gates and the Microsoft teams have been a very large part of my salary. For that, I thank you very much. For all of those that just plain hate you, I toast you. Most of your haters are just mad because of how much money you have made over the years. I say congrats man. I have lived through every single version of your software and will continue on. Now that you are “retiring” to your Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, what will you do to keep yourself busy? I vote you take over a small country like, oh I do not know, Canada. Build a wall, allow only those that have certain Microsoft certifications to move in and we will all live a technical and wonderful life.

You and Microsoft are a huge factor in where this World is today when it comes to personal and business computing.

MILLIONAIRE FACTORY. The success of Microsoft DOS, and, later, Windows, helped the PC spread to businesses and homes, empowering office workers and consumers alike. By the count of market researcher Gartner Inc., 1.75 billion Microsoft-powered PCs have been sold since 1981.

And consider the even bigger picture: Economists estimate that all information technology, including PCs, contributed about one-third of the 2% average annual U.S. productivity growth since 1995.

Gates’s greatest legacy may be the creation of wealth, both his own and others’. Microsoft churned out $88 billion in profits since 1985, some sucked from customer pockets as payments on his monopolies in PC software. That drove up the company’s stock, enriching Gates and other insiders, who held 26% of the shares in late 1999. But Microsoft also minted, by some estimates, thousands of other employee-millionaires, maybe the most at any company ever.

Starting in January 1975, Gates and Allen develop Windows Basic for the Altair 8800 to June 27th of 2008 when you officially became a part-time employee…you made the world a better with each and every launch of software…minus the every famous Windows ME. (puke)

Here is my farewell thanks Bill,

William Gates III will live on forever as one of the most successful, wealthy, loved, liked and hated men in the history of this World.

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