The Microsoft co-founder has shared a conversation he once had with the late Apple boss - who died in 2011 aged 56 - revealing Steve was less than flattering about his designs and said taking drugs would have helped improve the looks he came up with.

Bill told The Independent newspaper: "Steve Jobs once said that he wished I'd take acid because then maybe I would have had more taste in my design of my products."

The billionaire went on to admit the two tech gurus had very different skill sets and he felt jealous of Steve's ability to come up with amazing product designs.

He added: "My response to that was to say, ‘Look, I got the wrong batch.’ I got the coding batch, and this guy got the marketing-design batch, so good for him!

"Because his talents and mine, other than being kind of an energetic leader, and pushing the limits, they didn't overlap much.

"He wouldn’t know what a line of code meant, and his ability to think about design and marketing and things like that ... I envy those skills. I'm not in his league."

In the interview Bill admitted he has tried drugs, but gave up smoking marijuana because it clouded his mind.

He explained: "I stopped doing even marijuana early in my 20s just because it made my mind sloppy, either during or the day afterwards.

"I smoked pot in high school, but not because it did anything interesting. I thought maybe I would look cool and some girl would think that was interesting. It didn't succeed, so I gave it up."