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The rehabilitation of Bill Gates's image after he left MicroSoft was mind blowing. Like here's the most capitalist capitalist in the world, the Elon Musk of the 90s/early 00s, and otherwise progressive people were fawning over him because he did a little philanthropy at the behest of his wife.
It's like listening to gamers talk about Windows being an OS with such wide compatibility, when the only reason for that is market share forcing everyone else to bend to it and write Windows drivers for everything.
And I still wonder where we'd be in computing if MS hadn't anointed Intel and their old-timey architecture as the winner of the CPU wars.
Ballmer dripping with sweat and screaming did wonders in the "taking eyes off Bill" department.