Microsoft trots Bill Gates out to sell Windows 8

He may no longer be the CEO, but in most people’s minds Bill Gates is still Microsoft.

That’s probably why the Redmond-based tech giant took its co-founder away from trying to kill malaria with lasers and sat him down for an interview to explain how incredibly important Windows 8 is.

Gates seems to buy into current CEO Steve Ballmer’s vision for the operating system, so much so that he already has a Surface. He calls the tablet “an unbelievably great product” and seems to love the marriage of touch and keyboard.

And if you thought Gates was going to go for one of those lumo pink or blue covers, think again. He went for black, although he says that was just so he could get one early.