Mr Gates I owe you a lot....
27 June 2008 was the last day of Bill Gates as full time Microsoft employee. I am sure it must be a roller coaster ride full of ups and downs. Detailing what he has accomplished, is something out of my writing caliber. But I would certainly like to thank him for what he did for me and many more people like me.
For those who are still unclear about this connection, here are few hints.
Remember first time when computer caught your fancy, I can still remember my first ugly dreadful drawing in ms paint. I believe windows and Internet are the strongest reasons for bringing Computer out of scientific labs to the common people and making such a wide medium of information sharing.
Even after decades of presence of Unix/Linux and Macs, number of people using these Operating systems for personal usage is minimal. Accept it, 99% people using Internet are not very tech savvy and they are happy using MS windows which is hundred times easier to understand and work with compared to geeky UNIX or Linux (taking exception for few flavors). There is no reason why a common user should be nerd. Why one should know computer architecture for buying music from amazon or camera from eBay. Internet is just a medium and facilitator for enhanced information sharing and communication.
Coming back to Mr Gate's contribution to my life.
Today siting in Stratford and writing programs for our banking client, I feel Mr Gates and his company is hugely responsible for this amazing phenomenon where a guy from (so called) third world nation is brought to this unknown small place(believe me I never heard of this place before coming here) to give technical consultancy to an enterprises in developed nation. I can not deny many other strong factors such as cost but at the same time these reasons alone could not made it possible.
From being fascinated with computer for first time to writing enterprise application its all connected and link surely reaches to Mr Gates. The reason which brings me here and make me do what I am getting paid for, is lot to do what Mr Gates has created or rather sold ( I heard he bought windows OS from someone else not sure of authenticity of this so please excuse if otherwise).
Microsoft is often blamed for lacking innovation and using unethical way to maintain market leadership, and there are good amount of facts available to support it.
But despite all these, as an individual Gate's contribution in providing common platform to collaborate and share is enormous.
India can attribute a lot of its progress to services and mainly IT and ITES which is directly or indirectly related to availability of skilled human resource. And part of credit for creating this resource pool obviously goes to Mr Gates.
I read some where if you can make someone's dream come true, god will bless you and I am sure Bill must be highly blessed for making so many dreams true.
Thank you Mr. Gates.