] Bill Gates, whose net worth of $46.6 billion makes him
] the world's richest person, is betting against the U.S.
] dollar.
]
] ``I'm short the dollar,'' Gates, chairman of Microsoft
] Corp., told Charlie Rose in an interview late yesterday
] at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. ``The
] ol' dollar, it's gonna go down.''

... at the point he divests his holdings to Euro, the US Gov should start dropping MS software contracts.

Bloomberg.com: Bill Gates ditching dollar