Mark Zuckerberg vs Bill Gates

Zuckerberg definitely has the potential to become like Gates or even better them. But Bill Gates through Microsoft achieved something so groundbreaking and revolutionary. It fundamentally changes the face of consumer electronics market. Although Windows is no-where in Mobile OS, but the kind of domination achieved in desktop and laptop is tremendous.

For me Microsoft was the company making software that made it possible to use computer at homes. Intel was the company that made the hardware and Microsoft made software, they bought the revolutionary disruptive technologies to home computer market which till today continues despite the severe competition from mobile OS & hardware companies.

Facebook is yet to reach that level stature for me. Although i use facebook to post this message, and firefox to actually open the website, i cannot do either without booting my computer. Windows and Intel will die a slow death when more than half of the population of earth start using Smartphone/Tablet. Despite the smartphone/tablet revolution, that is still some time away.

If facebook has 1 billion users. Windows has 89% share of this entire worlds population using computers. there are probably more computers running windows  than computers connected to Internet.

Bill Gates with Microsoft creates the Internet Explorer in 1995 with Windows 95,and Mark Zuckerberg creates a site named Facebook on 2004