No, the best thing Windows could do is make a version of Windows that works and doesn’t need patching every five seconds.
He entered the networking market long after Unix/BSD!
I am a linux user, and generally spare no opportunity to talk smack about MS, but one area where they excell is the quality of their programming language documentation. It’s top notch.
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Create a conclusion first and then fit the reality to it. Gates is resigning from Chairmanship voluntarily. Don’t need the hassle.
Stopped reading right there.
Told a 13 year old neighbor kid that if IE could ask to be his default browser, he could ask the cute girl to go out with him...
/johnny
If I was his age and had his money, the last thing I’d be doing is going to work every day. Life comes around faster than you think, remember Steve Jobs.
Bill Gates is a smelly little ape. I detest the man. His products, e.g., Word, try to tell me what to do, and it is hard to overcome the defaults in his software. He is a totalitarian.
What is conveniently left out of the article is that Microsoft would have faced antitrust action by the Justice Department for any horizontal or vertical expansion...eg in fact did get slammed for it’s browser packaging.
Euthanizing the devil would have been more appropriate.
A lot of very successful people are one trick ponies. You see it in the arts a lot where an artist is new and avant garde, only to never change for the next 50 years (if they live that long).
Gates is and always was a one trick pony. It made him incredibly rich, but didn’t make him incredibly smart. There are a lot of those, but their cookie cutter approach works for decades or across markets.
Gates has always been vastly overrated. He got where he is by slimy business dealings not technical genius.
gotta watch these Indians , they are taking over .
India is overflowing , spilling out into the entire world .
Anyone been to India ? Then you know what concerns me .
Bill Gates should be EXILED to his”Garage”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Microsoft has a historical culture of moving slow and not failing.”
I’d like to visit the alternate universe the author appears to be visiting from. Perhaps, he’ll let me use his worm hole.
Microsoft has a historical culture of shipping half-finished product out the door, then using service packs to fix the bugs. Most people know that a new Windows version is actually still in beta testing; and you have to wait for SP2 (at least) to have a product that’s ready for prime time.
A couple of decades ago, I read a book contrasting the MS culture, with that of IBM. IBM really did move slowly, and methodically (comes with the mainframe business). MS was known to rush things to market, and patch over the problems after they’d gotten the jump on competitors.
It’s too late for Microsoft to ever resurrect its early success. There just aren’t enough MS employees who care anymore. Once a company loses its entrepreneurial spirit, it’s on a downhill slide.
Still is.
Just ask Steve Barkto.