Bill Gates Quote:

'I've also learned that only through focus can you do i world-class things, no matter how capable you are.'

Bill Gates
http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml? channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=208505

{{{{Craig Mundie, chief technical officer for advanced strategies and policy and one of only a handful of people who report directly to Gates, recalls that Microsoft's technology and product strategy had begun to suffer what he calls disconnects: 'A telltale indicator was that there were actually product groups who never, ever got a 'Bill review' of their strategies.'}}}

Charlie's interpretation of this, Bill Gates doesn't like to run Windows anymore and has become dis-interested in PC's all-together.

If you read the article, it seems to pan this conclusion out based on what Bill Gates is saying.

Windows and PC is boring to Bill Gates now.

Same link I posted later. Sorry.

I doubt he's ever liked running windows. I mean he can't be a complete idiot. All BG is interested in is monopolising as many areas of business as he can. It ain't money but just a sick desire to control anything he touches.

That isn't how I read it. The article mentioned that it was Balmer who decided on the complete, from scratch, rewrite of everything for longhorn. That wasn't the original plan but it is clear they cannot keep hacking away at the bug written poorly designed crud they have