Does Bill Gates know how to program?

Hi, I've heard many times that he did the BASIC for the Trs-80 Model 100. At that time I think Microsoft put out pretty respectable product [I thought so anyway]. Perhaps it makes sense that since he became strictly-management oriented, Microsoft products have been backward, unimaginative and often downright creepy. Well, at least unlike the other Bill, his vices are limited to economic pursuits. I just hope that someday soon they help to modernize computing again. :-( Outside of web browsers and Java, things have been pretty dull for the last couple of years. I would say that that's okay for a maturing industry, but there are so many helpful technologies on the backburner right now that it's just unreal. What was it somebody said? "The popularization of the Internet slammed modern software development back ten years." Or something like that. Thomas