Naw, we just buy ones where the lattice is diagonal.

In other words, we install X Windows.

It has one. It’s called evil-mode.

Don’t anthropomorphize computers.

They don’t like it.

Sure, but that’s how business works when you’re as big a company as Microsoft. And he was good at it.

I never said he was a nice guy, only that he was good at business.

That part of it, sure, but the guy was good at business and made some smart bets (that the microcomputer industry would explode, for one). Microsoft didn’t get as big as it has based only on their technical ability. They got there because they made the right decisions and were cutthroat against their competitors.

Bill was at the right time and right place, but he was also the right guy. You gotta have them all.