If you’re interested, the BBC’s Newsnight programme is leading tonight with a profile of Bill Gates and Microsoft in general. In the UK its on BBC Two starting now (10:30), or you can watch it online at the above website for 24 hours. In their own words:

Imagine the world without Microsoft. It’s not easy, if you have anything to do with computers. Now we’re going to have to imagine Microsoft without Bill Gates, who is leaving to spend more time with his charity work.

We’ll devote a big slice of tonight’s programme to the Harvard drop-out who came up with Windows and changed our world. Is Microsoft too powerful? And will its founder be remembered - like Andrew Carnegie - less as a ruthlessly competitive businessman and more as a philanthropist?

Update: The item was quite good. It had Scoble on (title Microsoft Strategist) who eulogised Gates, and some economist who said that in some cases he stifled innovation. I was just waiting for Scoble to get fed up with this claim, and list all of the innovations Microsoft had ever made under Bill Gates, but he didn’t (probably a good thing). It will definitely be available for UK users until 10:30 pm BST, and maybe longer. I’m not sure about the US and rest of the world, though.