@divegeester
Jobs was truly visionary. Gates is an imitator. The first versions of Windows were clearly reverse engineered from Mac. Gates is the reason there is now common boilerplate in every OS and APP prohibiting reverse engineering. The first several iterations of Windows were cumbersome to operate and were notoriously buggy. Poor imitations of the Mac OS.
Both men had a tremendous impact, but in different ways and market segments.
Gates’ big breakthrough was the step up from W98, which was a toy OS designed for gaming, to NT, the corporate platform supporting MS-OFFICE. Word, Excel and co. have established themselves as industry standards.
Jobs revolutionized the way we listen to music (iTunes, and now streaming), and communicate (iPhones, with numerous chat apps). Microsoft’s entry into the smart phone market flopped badly; again, imitation and badly. Jobs also set the standard by which others were judged. No one ever took IBM’s OS/2, or SuseLinux, for example, as the one to beat.
@divegeester
It is also worth mentioning that it was Jobs who created Pixar, after he was booted from Apple. Pixar's movies were what rescued Disney when Disney was in the doldrums and desperately needed an injection of creativity: they acquired Pixar and the rest is re-animation history. Just look at the list of Pixar films:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pixar_films
PS want to sell your MacBookPro?