Pompous ass whose decided that spending more money on govt education will solve the problems caused by govt education.
Wrote that "pay me now" letter to people who were using Microsoft Basic the same way that Gates had used Basic in the first place. His excuse, that he stole it first fair and square. Exactly the way Apple sued Microsoft for doing something Steve Jobs took away from Xerox.
For copying the BSD TCP/IP stack bodily into Win95, then calling Linux a "cancer". Oh, but he just LOVES BSD, which he can cherry-pick from at will. What he hates is the GPL and anything licensed with it, which prevents that cherry-picking.
His foundation which, while proclaiming that malaria is a scourge, then has never pointed out that DDT works great against mosquitos.
Unlike some, I can't fault his business sense. He's a master marketer, but there is still no way he can force me to buy his sub-standard products. For me to display real hatred, you'd have to name a bureaucrat or politician.