Bill Gates steps down.

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 clear that Mr Gates … Continue reading “Bill Gates steps down.”

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 clear that Mr Gates prediction has not been borne out. If anything spam has got worse.
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In 1995 Mr Gates co-wrote a book entitled The Road Ahead which gave little mention to the rising tide of interest in the net and its looming influence.
Later editions of the book were re-written to correct the omission
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It is something of a myth that Microsoft is a hive of innovation that regularly pumps out products that take on the world.

I’ll be sad to see him go. Evidently the industry has just lost one of their great visionaries.

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  1. so mr gates headed the creation of an operating system that can be used on any cheap hardware available.

    the end.

    everything else he has ever thought of (tablet pcs will rule?) has been wrong.

  2. I’d be more charitable. He was the best justification for a “Business IT” course in the history of mankind.

    As he inferred separately, he won not because his technology was better, but because his competitors didn’t know how to bring their product global.

    That’s an important distinction.

  3. >>>but because his competitors didn’t know how to bring their product global.

    I hope you mean OS there.

    For a lot of the rest, he simply stole stole stole.

    Oh, wait. He called it “adding value to Windows.”

    And this is not entirely sour grapes even though someone told me in 1980 that Micrsoft was a company to watch. If you don’t realize, 1980 was waaaaaay pre-IPO. Hell, pre-DOS! MS was still doing MultiPlan for the C=64!! Aw, I didn’t have spare money.

    Time machine, please.

  5. I can’t get worked up about Microsoft. They’re so irrelevant to the modern world that they’re barely worth the bandwidth. The only person who talks about them with any respect is Robert Scoble and even then I think that’s a favour to previous colleagues.

  6. It’s a bit like talking about IBM or HP. While they are all capable of innovation, they are such a behemoth with so much baggage that anything innovative that does come from them is drowned in the sea of enterprise bullshit. None of the three are, dare I say it, agile.

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