I don't know. Who is "We all?" I think people who know have been saying Bill Gates is smart for ages. I really do truly hate Microsoft, from the bottom of my

I don't know. Who is "We all?" I think people who know have been saying Bill Gates is smart for ages. I really do truly hate Microsoft, from the bottom of my heart, because how bad and ugly most of their stuff is weighs deeply on my sensitive aesthetic sense. Just knowing I have to share a planet and 99.9% of my genome with people who are happy with that crap causes me deep existential anxiety. So there aren't many people who hate Microsoft more then me. But, I always thought Bill Gates was really smart. As much as I hate Microsoft, that kind of evil is a smart evil. The problem is, first of all, that all this evaluation doesn't mean shit if you don't fire the people responsible for your crap sucking, and second of all, that no one is really responsible for things not sucking. The problem with MS is the MBA's, and that anyone with a strong enough vision to make stuff not suck will have to bump heads with very powerful institutional forces that pull MS towards suckage. The problem isn't quite someone at microsoft as the fact there is no one there with power AND taste who can make a big difference. (there are maybe a few at low levels, there are some of microsoft things that don't suck, and that even evidence taste, but it's the rare exception not the rule.)