He built an empire by copying ideas of others from the very beginning. (Checkout the 'window' concept lawsuit with apple).
The only thing he was good at, is getting government contracts all over the world, since his software was closed, allowing tons of monitoring measures. If you run a simple tcp dump on any windows version, without any additional software installed, you'll actually find tons of hosts with encrypted communication, your systems talks 'who knows what'.
That's the reason of Stagnation. If we observe Google projects such as TensorFlow (among many), what exactly MS ever contributed to technology? Office? :)
He is everything but visionary. How many people are using Windows now in 2018. I not sure if I know a single person. So much of his visions, and a lawsuits following up on each update.
If he is anything, it would be a good NSA friend, allowed US Agencies to exploit the rest of the world
regular users computer systems due to cash-back agreements between M$ and corrupted governments all around the world. Don't forget MS executives called Linux a cancer of technology in it's early days, then added linux emulation to windows 10. No problem of adding 'cancer' as long as it brings money.
Very visionary :)
I was thinking about the creation of Visual Basic, Visual C, C#, some cloud services (Azore), or for their contribution in quantum computing and philanthropic projects in Africa ... I'm not a fan of today's Windows or any Microsoft Office product
actually he saw the GUI on a Xerox copier and yes was also intrigued by what he saw at apple with Steve's mental down spiral years during the Apple Lisa years and Bill actually also stole the Dirty Operating System DOS from a fellow college student stealing his work and turning it in as his project. Sorry but my dad went to college with him and I happen to live in Seattle and my dad and Paul Allen were working together along with the 3 attending Lakeside when Bill approached both asking if they wanted to be a part of his idea for Microsoft and yes my dad turned it down , if you want we can take a boat via Lake Washington and access the back yard of his Mercer Island house. Oh yeah also , After Eudora was created Netscape sold it to M$ and they BOUGHT the rights to what they released Internet Explore 1.0 and have built it off that original Netscape code. Don't hate the player hate the game , jelly much you guys? Opinions are like assholes . everybody has one and they all stink. Hell they need to rename this site to OpinionIT.com.