Gates says big changes in store for Internet in next decade

Associated Press ^ | 5-6-08 | KELLY OLSEN

[Las Vegas Ron]

Nah...that’s what micro waves are for LOL

[antiRepublicrat]

Why does anybody care what Gates thinks on this subject? He has never had a clear vision of technology. Cue back to the early-mid 90s when he thought closed online communities like AOL were the future and this “Internet” thing wasn’t going anywhere.

Now have Gates speak about the software business and I’ll be listening.

[sionnsar]

Remember “Imminent death of Internet predicted”?

[antiRepublicrat]

Microsoft didn't invent the Internet in 1998

He probably sees the Internet through a Microsoft lens -- dating its existence back to when Internet Explorer was achieving dominance in the browser market.

[sionnsar]

Ah, the first bulletin boards (precursor to newsgroups) were such fun.

Especially after upgrading to 300 bps!

[sionnsar]

Geezer Geek ping.

This is a very low-volume ping list (typically days to weeks between pings).
FReepmail sionnsar if you want on or off this list.

[antiRepublicrat]

The infamous BSOD is caused by incompatible hardware drivers. Poorly written software can also crash Windows.

The former is somewhat understandable in a monolithic kernel architecture, the latter is inexcusable.

[Rebelbase]

Translation: “I’ve found a way to make another sh_tpot of money off it”.

[mjp]

"The Internet has been operating now for 10 years," Gates said. Billy boy, you just don't get it, do you? Microsoft didn't invent the Internet in 1998...

Free Republic was founded in 1996 and opened to the general public in February 1997.

[Rebelbase]

I heard a tele-modem sound in some piece of equipment a while back and had flashbacks!

[null and void]

Arrogant little prick, isn't he?

Yes sir! (And if any FReeper knows Arrogant)...

[antiRepublicrat]

He announced it was the ‘first Graphical interface for computers’. Which was a surprise to Apple, and Xerox.

And Atari and Commodore and MIT and Berkeley Softworks, to name just a few more GUIs that predated Windows 3.0.

[null and void]

Why does anybody care what Gates thinks on this subject? He has never had a clear vision of technology.

Sure he has. He was certain that no one would ever need to address more than 640K of memory.

He's always has a clear and incorrect vision. Indeed, there is quite a Vista from his office...

[JoeSixPack1]

Voice commands?? That’s it? Mobile software with voice commands?

Computer, STFU!!!
(Sound of S&W round sliding into chamber)
(click)
BAM!!!

[rabidralph]

So Microsoft is Cyberdyne and they will soon build Skynet?

[steveo]

Bill Gates drinks Budweiser and has Starbucks every morning.
He's really an illegal alien and has no right to anything in this country.
He thinks he's better than Chuck Norris.
Bill buys cheap laptops just so he can load some flavor of *nix and then run over them with his go cart.
He always has 11 items in the 10 items or less checkout.
His toilet paper is put in the wrong way.

[shorty_harris]

Well, hopefully that software controlling you car isn’t ‘trialware’. I was looking at a new car a couple of weeks ago, which had an XM satellite radio, and a free 3 month subscription. But what happens after that subscription runs out, and you decide not to continue? Do you just have no radio?

[webschooner]

The world waits breathlessly, hanging on every prediction, from the world savant Gates, whose company had its most recent raging success with its fabulous and exiting new operating system, Vista.

Vister is blazing with kewl eye candy, but rumor has it that some consumers just haven’t yet realized how much they love it.

[2111USMC]

We were late comers to the Internet.

By the time we got on-line, Prodigy and Compuserve were taking over the world.

[null and void]

Point and click...