Was Bill Gates a good CEO for Microsoft and why?

In almost every metric, Bill Gates was a great CEO:

1. He created tens of thousands of high paying jobs and is a hero among the developers at Microsoft, even now.
2. He built an excess of $200b for the stockholders and MSFT had one of the dream runs in stock market history (from 1980 to 1999).
3. He brought PC and computing to the common man, and without his push it is arguable that the computing world would be a much different place.
4. He is a great philanthropist who has contributed a lot both to Seattle's local community (through United Way & others) and to the broader world.
5. While the tech world hates him, you have to accept that he is the most well-known CEO in the world. Even in the developing world, a random guy would know who Bill Gates is without knowing anything about the US economy or technology.
6. If there were no Bill Gates but just Apple & IBM, it is less likely that the computing revolution would have entered the developing world. In countries such as India, we would have never been able to afford the Mac or a proprietary IBM box on a larger scale. That means we would have continued to stay in poverty with no hope.

He was good for workers, customers, shareholders and society at large.