... can be found here
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/14/otto_gates_carnegie/
(quote) "Gates didn't come close to inventing the chip, the PC, the operating system or productivity software. Apple, IBM and the human condition did the dirty work to make the PC popular. In reality, Gates just signed a couple of contracts at the right time and made the most of it.
To portray Gates as anything less than perhaps the luckiest and most savvy businessman of all time would be doing him a disservice".
As for visionary - Bill Gates totally and completely failed to even MENTION the internet in his 1995 book "The Road Ahead". Visionary? In true Redmond PR bullshine style, the book was later re-written and re-published, to include a section on the internet.
"Until 1995 Microsoft didn't consider the Internet relevant. It was overlooked in Gates' The Road Ahead first published that year. (Gates, Bill. The Road Ahead. Viking Penguin, 1995) Instead of the passing fad Bill Gates imagined, the Internet became a primary reason many people use computers. It was created and grew without the help of Microsoft. Microsoft's Internet strategy has been to follow the lead of others in everything from the web browser to instant messaging"
I see no visionary ...
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