Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates was recently interviewed by Charlie Rose for 60 Minutes, and one of the topics of discussion was the late Steve Jobs. Mr. Gates became quite emotional when thinking back to his last meeting with Mr. Jobs, and he said he wished he had Mr. Jobs's sense of design.
Bill Gates Thinking Back to His Last Meeting with Steve Jobs
When he was sick, I got to go down and spend time with him,” Mr. Gates said. They talked about, “what we'd learned, families…about anything. […] He showed me the boat he was working on, and talked about how he's looking forward to being on it, even though we both knew there was a good chance that wouldn't happen.”
Charlie Rose asked Mr. Gates about missed opportunities, and he acknowledged that Microsoft had done, “tablets, lots of tablets, well before Apple did, but [Apple] put the pieces together in a way that succeeded.”
60 Minutes put together a mini-video dealing predominantly with the parts of the interview that involved Steve Jobs:
Note that the video requires Flash.