> He had little if anything to do with the nuts and bolts of the “Windows desktop” that we know and love today.
Correct.
OTOH, his wife Melinda Gates was the force behind the pre-Windows95 desktop, the product known as "Microsoft BOB". 'Nuff said.
Well then you can certainly see why Bill fell for her. But, Bill / Bob... I think that she and Karen Fries were both sucking up to Gates before 1995, but Melinda eventually won the prize. And now she is writing such new age classics as her masterpiece, The Moment of Lift, which Barack Obama loved.