Gates says iPad users are frustrated, iPad should be like the Surface

Here is the general algo: Make a ton of money, surround yourself with yes-men/women, make asinine statements based on intensive market analysis (sample size of 1), use your PR machine to recast tax avoidance as philanthropy.

It's worked for centuries. It does require some amount of large-scale violence and/or business domination, that's kind of the missing ??? step you forget in your algo.

How could I forget large scale violence!

Probably need to add celebrity, which is another type of business domination.

I know what he means. Bill wants those iPads sat in warehouses across the globe going nowhere.

One thing I like to thank microsoft for is that they keep their overpriced productivity suite off the devices we actually use - iPads and Android tablets. They do that for their own selfish reasons (they are delusional enough to think it'll make surface fly off the shelves). But at the end of the day this will convince a growing segment of the device buying population that office is no longer needed - something us tech-savvy people knew for a long time.

So yeah, thanks microsoft. /s