He got even richer by constantly forcing us upgrade his 01110111 01101001 01101110 01100100 01101111 01110111 01110011 00100000 01101111 01110011, as well as all our our other 01101101 01101001 01100011 01110010 01101111 01110011 01101111 01100110 01110100 programs.
I don't know if he is a genius ... but he seems to be very market savy. Most Microsoft products were actually invented by someone else, and bought out by Microsoft. EG: most Excel features came from Lotus. GUI was invented by Apple.
He's certainly a slick operator, given that he got away cold with stealing the entire Windows concept from Apple (who didn't invent it either, but at least Wozniak PAID Xerox for it). Word is also a dumbed down version of WordPerfect, and Excel of Lotus 123.