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Posted on 03/03/2009 4:03:34 PM PST by SeekAndFind
You'd think the children of the world's richest man could get anything they wanted.
But Bill Gates' kids aren't allowed to have any Apple products, the Microsoft founder's wife tells Vogue magazine.
"There are very few things that are on the banned list in our household," Melinda Gates, a Microsoft millionaire in her own right, tells interviewer Michael Specter. "But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for our kids."
It's pretty clear Bill Gates is familiar with Apple products — after all, Microsoft Word was first written for the original Mac. Yet the silken tentacles of Steve Jobs do not sully the well-timbered, high-tech lodge of the Gates family on the shores of Lake Washington.
According to MocoNews.net, Gates may have also banned BlackBerrys from the high-minded halls of his philanthropic Gates Foundation, issuing Windows Mobile-powered smartphones instead.
Still, the former Melinda French, a Microsoft millionaire in her own right before she became Mrs. Gates, admits to a little Apple envy.
"Every now and then I look at my friends and say, 'Ooh, I wouldn’t mind having that iPhone,'" she tells Vogue.
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They do use then same uprocessor ARM which is built into the ASIC which is the controller of them both
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Microsoft bought $150 million of restricted Apple Preferred Stock in 1997... and sold it at a profit about three years later, after the restriction was lifted. The stock purchase was part of a lawsuit settlement that Microsoft essentially LOST.
So, how are those rootkits that came with the Sony kit faring?
This is strictly a "Dog Bites Man" story. I had a friend whose dad, a Scott Paper exec, went ballistic when he found Kleenex instead of Scott's tissue boxes in my friend's apartment.
... and most of their interface and marketing support is designed on Macintosh...
Speaking of Crackberrys, anybody remember when the iPhone was first released so long ago and all the Crackberry users were maligning the iPhone touchscreen?
Haven't heard anything out of them since all the new Crackberrys look like iPhone clones................
Except the blackberry touchscreen is apparently not done as well.
I’m sure my kids would give up their iPods to be billionaires, too.
Well, so far they appear to not be reporting any for the MP3 players.
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