Don't hate on the Gates man. He's donated billions to charity, has almost single-handedly financed and led the initiative to remove the scourge of malaria from Africa (not quite there yet, not for some years, but has started using some funky genemod mosquitoes), is financing the most promising HIV vaccine ever which is currently being trialled in Africa, and is pushing for new energy generation policies, including a new paradigm of micronuclear, as well as education initiatives for children the world over.
He can probably be pointed at as the single greatest contributor to the social good that humanity has ever seen - yet he still garners all sorts of hatred, simply because when he was at the helm of Microsoft, he acted like a good businessman. Jobs is seen as some sort of messiah figure but he's a dick really.
...and like it or not, Microsoft has touched us all. There are considerable amounts of Microsoft-licensed software in OS X you know, as well as almost every software you use... it's not all just a hippie love in. Adobe InDesign? Almost certainly written using at least some of Microsoft's C/C++/C# libraries and compilers.
