Bill Gates has left the building

Bill gates faded from the scene at Microsoft. Here is what some leading journals say about his insights:
From the New York Times:"Mr. Gates grasped and deployed two related concepts on a scale no one ever had in the past: the power of network effects and the value of establishing a technology platform.
"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/technology/27soft.html?_r=1&scp=5&sq=bill+gates&st=nyt&oref=slogin

From the Economist:"As with many great innovations, Mr Gates’s vision has come to seem so obvious that it is hard to imagine the world any other way. Yet, early on, he grasped two things that were far from obvious at the time, and he grasped them more clearly and pursued them more fiercely than his rivals did at Commodore, MITS or even Apple.The first was that computing could be a high-volume, low-margin business.Mr Gates also realised that making hardware and writing software could be stronger as separate businesses."
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=11622119