Someone is doing technical historical research by disassembling a piece of software written by Bill Gates. They found the software used numerous clever hacks to stay small. What proposition are you referring to?
"'Could Bill Gates Write Code?' Or was he merely the luckiest man alive,..."
Maybe I'm wrong but I found the title to be kind of linkbait-ish, trying to ride the prevalent anti-Gates sentiment. I'm no Gates fan, but to doubt his coding skills or technical prowess either shows you're ignorant or just young enough not to know. I use and like a Radio Shack Model 100 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100, a dinosaur, but the battery life on that thing is awesome, and works with stands AA batteries, too), this is agreed to be the last piece of hardware that has Gates' code on it.
I, too thought he was just a corporate raider (like our managers, sigh), but got corrected many times by friends who worked at Microsoft Research before, who said his assessment and knowledge of new technology was spot on.
I thought it was junk but then found a vibrant community of users online. Now I use it for word processing, great for focusing, like WriteRoom on Mac. Also get some interesting looks. "Retro all the way baby" :-)
