The Bill Gates Reality Distortion Field

From an interview in today's FT with the arch-monopolist himself (subscription may be required):

We partly didn’t know what it was, and certainly what the press said it was wasn’t what we thought it was, but even what we thought it was we didn’t end up doing all of that. That’s old history. This is very simple.

Is it any wonder the real world turns off when BillG gets up to speak? And it's not as if the Powerpoint presentations make up for his weaknesses.