Bill Gates, the erstwhile Chairman of Microsoft and the richest person of the world for quite a long time, is always subject to discussions. In these, people often come up with strange facts about him, which is nowhere true. Social Media too if full of various rumors and misconceptions about Bill. Here we try to clear five common rumors about him circulating over Internet.
1. He doesn’t deserve all the money he earned through Microsoft and its products. When was the last time he wrote code?
People think it puts them on a better league if they hate Bill Gates or Microsoft. He doesn’t have to write every line of code that’s shipped by Microsoft to ‘deserve’ whatever place he has attained today. If he didn’t know anything about marketing or business Microsoft wouldn’t have survived.
2. He hates Apple and Microsoft doesn’t deserve a place in a world where Apple exists.
If Bill Gates hadn’t bailed out Apple by buying into the company, 90% of us would not have even heard of Apple or its magical ‘life changing products’. Sure people could laud Steve Jobs for having made such a tactical move in asking Microsoft to partner with Apple and write software for its machines but if it wasn’t for Microsoft Steve Jobs might not have become the superhero he is today.
3. Bill Gates went to a restaurant and paid a $2 tip. Waiter said “Yesterday your son gave a $100 tip and you are giving only $2?” Wise reply by Bill Gates “He’s the son of a billionaire I’m the son of a farmer.”
Actually his father was a prominent attorney in Seattle, USA. His grandfather owned a Bank!
4. One big misconception about Bill Gates is that he’s a college drop out.  Other says that he left his studies after failing five times in fifth standard.
The fact is Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard which is at the top of Ivy League of academic institutions. Secondly, he dropped out of college to capitalise on the technology change that was going to sweep the world. Not many people would have been able to spot this change. Lastly, he did not drop out at a whim, it was a well discussed step that he took after evaluating all the risks involved.
5. He and his company Microsoft is often engaged in unethical business practices.
Anti Trust law is an outdated relic from a bygone era, and the Internet Explorer trial just goes to prove it. Â Basically, Netscape got butt-hurt when Microsoft released a FAR superior browser for free. Instead of competing like men, they went whining to big daddy government in the hopes that they would ask Microsoft not to be mean enough to provide better value to customers.