There are many other things that the Gates Foundation does not want people to understand. Thanks to the Internet, activists like Vandana Shiva can tell us how those things really impact the population; the mainstream press (read: corporate-dominated media) typically echoes elite opinion, with occasional exceptions. ⬆
"Microsoft sees what's coming. Things like Word and Excel sort of like a drug now getting ready to go generic."
Because digital connections in third parties aren't assets; they endow another party with tremendous power over people (e.g. MElon getting to decide who can and cannot reach people or what messages to "dim down")
Narrowing down to desktops and laptops, and judging by Web requests that go through Clownflare, many people there use GNU/Linux or Google's 'bastardised' version of it (with spyware preloaded)