We’ll miss him. The big nerdy guy, who quite frankly, was and is one of the world’s greatest and most generous men.

Bill Gates in his many years as the public face and top-dog big-daddy clippy-sucking ruler of Microsoft left at the end of last month to a royal fanfare, but not before we had time to revel in his glory (and misery).

Rock ON!

- Internet Explorer (Making the net accessible to millions of non-techies.)
- Microsoft Office (It may be costly, but it works. Most of the time.)
- Windows XP (Solid, reliable, workable, generally plays nice.)
- Xbox 360 (Score one for Redmond! w00t w00t! s0nY n00bS!)
- Open-Hardware (Not monopolizing on hardware causes problems… But it brings prices down.)

The EPIC failures

- Internet Explorer (For delivering billions of webpages in completely broken fashion.)
- Microsoft Office (Clippy landed you here… There’s no forgiveness!)
- Windows NT (Thou shalth not think of thee abomination.)
- Windows Vista (ARGH! The compatability (or lack thereof) burns… It burns!)
- Microsoft Bob (… -_- …)
- Open-Hardware (Prices come down… But the driver errors, the BSODs and the general badness suck.)
- Anti-piracy Technology (Everyone… Even legitimate users has suffered “Windows Genuine Advantage” hell at one point or another.)
- Microsoft Zune (Raise your hands if you have one? Point made.)

Of course now I’ll get a load of Microsoft-Bob-loving-Windows-Vista-sucking-Internet-Explorer-praising-(WTF?)-Microsoft-Zune-owning phreaks of nature defending their favourite products.

But life is life, and frankly, everything hasn’t gone the Microsoft way.

Some things have succeeded, afterall.