It's true that Bill Gates saw the future very early on, although he never managed to make anything good in either tablets or the online collaboration/synchroniz

It's true that Bill Gates saw the future very early on, although he never managed to make anything good in either tablets or the online collaboration/synchronization space (especially the latter which Microsoft has attacked time and time again without success, see Joel Spolsky: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html). Bill Gates, clearly, is a phenomenal technologist, but while he has the vision and "cluefulness" that Ballmer lacks, I'm not sure he is up to the task of competing with Google and Apple today.