You know Bill Gates hasn’t had anything to do with Microsoft in over a decade, right?
Bill Gates was in charge when they released Windows XP and booby trapped it. As time passed, I had to make a hardware change on that desktop. The lack of support and the booby trap design of XP, locked me out, and made a perfectly good machine into a total brick.
The least an outfit should do when they abandon support is to unlock the piracy prevention traps they built into it.
This all was under Gates.