Wil's Rant

I can't stand Microsoft. I can say this as a person who has been chained to it for more than five years now. I won't go into the seemingly infinite reasons why at this point. I don't feel quite the same way about Bill Gates. For one reason, he has given a good portion of his personal wealth to charity. He's doing so again. Another is the fact that employees of Microsoft from the beginning fared very well when it came time to retire. We have to admit that the guy is a super genius. The problem is that with all super genius', they can get a little obsessive when left unchecked. I think he has been misguided on several key business principles and he has been too obsessed with being the big winner to stop, step back, and re-assess, a very necessary process for someone in his position. In any case, he has done a whole lot more for the less fortunate than many other men in comparable positions.