Bill Gates was a great leader and managed to stay on top of current trends. Whether that meant pushing their way in or buying their way in, Microsoft was a force to be reckoned with when Bill Gates was in charge.

As of now I think most people can see a future in which Microsoft isn't relevant anymore. The question is whether Microsoft can see it and if they will do something about it...

If Win 8 tablets don't get marketshare soon, MS could very well become irrelevant in the post pc era.

Bill Gates Microsoft is best Microsoft.

Well, why wouldnt he be dissatisfied with the level of innovation? MSFT's stock has done absolutely nothing in the past 10 years, meanwhile Apple's stock has soared, heck, Google has just hit a new high today at $800. If the company simply performed better they'd get a certain expected return every year ( like 8% or whatever) but you just dont have that. Instead, the fans keep praising MSFT when all they've shown is mediocrity.

It's not horrible by any means, they're doing good and rebranding themselves, but it isn't phenomenal. I think that's what he meant in the interview.

I'm serious

He's right that MS has lacked true innovation. So has Apple without Jobs. And I've never seen Google do anything truly innovative (in a revolutionary way that MS/Apple has previously). So they are in good company but in today's world, innovation is king.

It's pretty bad when you consider that BIll would have gotten a bigger return by getting a 0.6% savings account rate or whatever.  He could have just thrown the money kept in MSFT stock in some vault for 10 years and it would have done just as good, without all of the risk so in essense he would have made a better decision by just SELLING all of his MSFT stocfk and keeping it safe somewhere.

Man, so much RESPECT he deserves.

He is right. I never got why they didnt jump on the tablet/smartphone bandwagon faster, especially when they pretty much came up with the smart future idea.