Posted on 05/06/2008 1:46:14 PM PDT by kingattax
LOL, I was about to post that he must not be including the Air Mosaic years. Ah, the first bulletin boards (precursor to newsgroups) were such fun.
Huh? Only ten years? Where’s he been?
counting his money i guess
The Internet has been operating now for 10 years,” Gates said. “The second 10 years will be very different.”
Leaving aside the question of how long said internet has been operating, this statement leaves me breathless in terms of its going way out on a limb? Going to be very different? Do tell, Billy. I coulda told ya that - where’s my 50 billion?
Yeh, the net’s going to improve by orders of magnitude as soon as we successfully remove all malware (read Microsoftware) from it. Step one is proceeding, Microsoft has demonstrated it’s inability to dance with Vista. Their next stumble shojld be fun to watch.
Bill Gates was the same person that had a big show when they released WINDOWS 3.0
He announced it was the ‘first Graphical interface for computers’.
Which was a surprise to Apple, and Xerox.
On the internet claim, I remember using Tymnet and Telenet, and.. well. I am preaching to the choir.
The internet has been around since the early 60’s.
It was the HTML programing language and browsers (Netscape, I.E) theat gave us the World Wide Web
Is there going to be a “punish” button added to Outlook so I can shock all my friends that spam me with crap every day until they quit sending me stuff embedded with malware and giving my name to mass spammers?
That would be handy if you ask me.
Just a dweeb with too much money and a desperate need to feel really relevant...
Boy, Gates is really going out on a limb here. He’s a regular Madame Cleo.
“The second 10 years will be very different.”
“We’re doing some very interesting work on automobile software. That’s a really wide open area where some very exiting [sic] things will come out of.”
“We can expect that the variety and quality of software will accelerate in the years ahead.”
... citing as an example speech commands to computers.
“The whole environment will be very, very different,” he said.
I just bought a brand new SUV with the Microsoft "Sync" software and on board navigation system. I haven't had to reboot the vehicle yet, but I expect it any day now. lol
Microsoft wants a vast toll gate.
CISCO has done 10,000 times more than microsoft to make the web what it is today - heck porn providers have done more than the Redmond rangers. I predict NetFlix will do more in the next decade than Microsoft who thinks the internet is a nifty way to fix security holes, software conflicts and OS problems that slipped through development. IE is Gates vision for the internet and Vista for the desk top, no wonder Gates is looking over seas for suckers.
Your right. He really went out on a limb without confering with Algore.
Shuddup and program BASIC, Billy!
I was suggesting that the result of the “natural interaction” of hardware and Windows is the BSOD. :-)
LOL
Over 10 minutes to type a few lines of text.
It's the Bill Gates reality distortion field. Every time I see the guy do an interview or make some speech, he never fails to utter some self serving jaw dropping inaccuracy.
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