Bill Gates before Microsoft

I feel that Bill Gates had a huge impact on life in the twentieth century. Who knows where the computer industry would be right now if Microsoft hadn't been formed. He made many routine jobs computerized, such as accounting, research, data management, and many more. This would have still taken place, but who knows how long.
Not only his programming skills and hard work, but also his business aggressiveness made him one of the leaders in developing computer technology. At the beginning of his career, he sped up development of computers greatly. But now, is he helping society to grow ... or is he holding us back? For example, he would force people to go his way with developing technology, or else he would force them out of business. Some of them did have good ideas though, that might have been better. So did that slow progress or not? We don't know.
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