Interesting takes on Bill Gates, on the occasion of his retirement

>Anil Dash says that by combining Microsoft with the gates Foundation, what he has essentially done is impose a 100 dollar per white collar worker "cure AIDS tax" or "stop malaria tax" on every corporation in the developed world.  Interesting reading…
http://www.dashes.com/anil/2008/06/bill-gates-and-the-greatest-tech-hack-ever.html

And I enjoyed reading a rant of an email that Bill himself sent on one frustrating episode he had with a Windows product.
You can read his whole 4 page email here:
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/141821.asp