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Among Bill Gates' many achievements, noted NBC anchor Brian Williams, was putting the "ms" in msnbc.com. Thus he introduced Tom Brokaw's profile of the onetime software geek as he leaves work at Microsoft to become a fulltime dogooder. ABC's Neal Karlinsky (embargoed link) wondered whether Gates' true mission in life was to be a philanthropist and that computer code was merely a means to an end. "No, no. My primary life's work is writing software," replied the 58-times billionaire. NBC's Brokaw tried to have Gates act modest about the staggering success of his brainchild. Gates would have none of it: "Even in those days, we wrote that it was our goal to put a computer on every desk and in every home running our software. So, in fact, the ambition level from the very beginning was pretty incredible. People thought it was crazy. Now they do not."
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