Do you think Bill Gates knew how big Microsoft and Windows was going to get?

Definitely not. I'd say even as late as Windows 3.1 he still didn't know how large and diverse Microsoft would become.

In ways I agree with moonrise, still at the same time I think he & his pirate minions stole code from the public & the more reliable OS's at the time to make it what it is today. Not that any of that has stopped 'cause if you notice the more advanced the Windows OS becomes the more it mimics apple with half the performance...

	Moonrise -  1189 pts -  (2 years ago)
	PCs can do more than Macs. I can't stand all this "<3 Mac" crap I see everywhere. The components make the computer.

	LiteStyle0o -  635 pts -  (2 years ago)
	Don't get me wrong I have all vista & xp machines. I'm no fan of mac because it is less customizable but this is the basis for windows systems. Have you seen Windows 7 vs. a mac OS? It's looking more & more like an apple. Your are correct about the peripherals as well, but the OS can either use them for performance or bog them down with heavy programming...

I think he had some idea he would get rich, but not how rich he is now. He is a smart man, he figured out something billions of people needed and strived on that idea. Good for him, he is now one of the richest men on this planet.

	Guest -  0 pts -  (2 years ago)
	I agree, he predicted that there would be a computer in every household. google it

Absolutely not!
I saw an interview with Bill Gates before the company really began growing. In that interview he stated he turned IBM down flat and sent them away. But later IBM returned and convinced him to accept. Then he bought an operating system from some other company, that was DOS.