Bill Gates left Microsoft prior to move on to bigger and better things. If it was his influence that created the design that everyone despised in 2007, which I'

Bill Gates left Microsoft prior to move on to bigger and better things. If it was his influence that created the design that everyone despised in 2007, which I'll argue that it wasn't, they'd have changed by now. Slate would be an example of something that Bill Gates helped create because of the value it'd bring to the world - not because of anything from an economic standpoint.