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."
They don't care about the users and issuing a few bytes with random characters costs them next to nothing. It gives them control over billions of human beings.
If even one media outlet told you in 2010 that Microsoft would fall from 100% (of Web requests) to about 1 in 8 Web requests, you'd probably struggle to believe it