One day, MSFT will become a bad long-term investment. Selling regurlarly is a good way to disengage without triggering any panic among shareholders. I do not like the man, but Bill Gates has always been very clever for business. BTW, I wish the best to Satya Nadella.
I have finished my studies in 1993. I have seen all the innovation between 1982 and 1990 (Commodore, Amstrad, Oric, ZX, Turbo Pascal, ...) and how Bill Gates has killed software I was using (Stacker, dr dos, gem, ...). I think he has contributed to slow down innovation by his monopolistic tactics (windows undocumented, ...). Microsoft bad behaviour has been clearly demonstrated in trials. I think that the current wave of innovation does not owe anything to Microsoft. Now, he may be another man, I do not know, but I know what he did to computer science.
This is such a tired meme. They both made bad choices and were both, at various points in time, equally reviled. Gates has simply had the time and inclination to rehabilitate his image in public through an impressive array of charitable works - we don't need to continuously harp on Jobs just because he's dead now and will never have that chance.
