You are discounting a LOT of Bill Gate's history. Yes, he did miss the "internet", (as someone who worked with Microsoft in Australia) he literally turned the

You are discounting a LOT of Bill Gate's history. Yes, he did miss the "internet", (as someone who worked with Microsoft in Australia) he literally turned the company around in 6 weeks. But if you still say Bill "missed" the internet, you are discounting Netscape vs IE wars. The internet in the 90's was a very different place to the internet today. But before that, Bill Gates got a lot right! Eg Excel vs Lotus, Word vs Word Perfect, Windows vs OS. The whole history of DOS. As others have said, its like saying Steve Jobs is a failure because he was sacked by the company he founded (Apple).