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Friday, June 27th, 2008
The BBC has a thought provoking review of Microsoft, with today being Bill Gates' last day as the Bog Man on Compus.
In early 2004, ...Mr Gates predicted that within two years the problem of spam - junk e-mail - would be solved. ... Four years further on and it is ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
...on the Windows machine in work which previously had IE6 and FF2.
The web is quick again. And anti-aliased. It's lovely.
Stupid ticketing system is hard-coded to only use IE6 or above and even changing the User Agent doesn't fool it.
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
In essence, he doesn't like them either.
Via Gruber
From: Bill Gates
Sent: Wed 4/30/2003 10:46 PM
Subject: Apple’s Jobs again.., and time to have a great Windows download service...
Steve Jobs ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right and market things as revolutionary are ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
"I once had a boss who said, 'You can't have your cake and eat it, so you have to step up to the plate and face the music.' It was in that moment I knew I had to resign before somebody got badly hurt by a pencil."
Tim, Durban
Source: The BBC
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