Bill Gates III was the son of wealthy parents, his father was a partner in the law firm Preston Gates & Ellis, his mother was on board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem (bank founded by her grandfather), IBM, and the United Way. He went to Lakeside school Seattle’s most elite private school. The current tuition is $28K (not including food, books, bus, laptop, and field trips). The tuition was way more than Harvard at the time.

Bill got a sweetheart deal from IBM, in part due to his mother serving on the United Way board with Jon Opel, chair of IBM.

So...he went to prep school and Harvard like all middle class kids, no wait, only wealthy folks can foot that kind of bill! Oh, and you're right his trust fund was only $1M so he wasn't anything like rich eh?
http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/

He wouldn't even have created windows had Xerox wanted to keep and market the outputs of their Palo Alto Research Center that made many millionaires and billionaires.

BS? Yep you did.......