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Microsoft At Middle Age
gordyf writes "The Seattle Times has an interesting article concerning Microsoft's current position in the market. It describes how its customers and parners are reacting to its heavy-handed tactics, and how 'you can point to Linux being one of the major drivers for this decade.' An interesting read."
...creating new software to entice people to buy more powerful computers
That just about says it right there.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
Turn the number backwards, subtract 1957 - the year DEC was founded. The number is now 21777.
Subtract 7491 from the number - this is the year Aleister Crowley paid a longer visit to hell, written backwards. It gives 14286.
Multiply the number by 002 - this is the symbol of greed, from right to left. It gives 28572.
Turn the number backwards, divide by 6 - the smallest perfect number. The number is now 4597.
Turn the number backwards, and add 1927 - the year Fidel Castro was born. The number is now 9881.
This number, read from right to left, is 1889, or the year Adolf Hitler was born.
No further questions. QED.
By home-improvement, I hope he means replacing that NT cluster he has running everything with a more reliable system. I figure he's got to be sick of getting locked out of the john at 3 AM by a system crash...
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
From the article:
Gates said he plans to retire "somewhere in my late 50s" but will probably remain associated with the company, perhaps in an advisory capacity, a role he described as "ongoing support."
So when will he be EOL-ed?
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
The little blurb at the side tells us that Mr. Gates' net worth is a bit over $50 billion. That's a lot of money, in fact, I've read estimates of the cost of constructing a small moon colony that run below that.
So think about this: if you had the chance to liquidate most of your assets, and then finance a moon colony how could you say no? Oh I'm sure there are more humanitarian things he could do with that money, but he isn't really doing that either. But come on, Bill, a *moon colony* you could do it!
In Capitalist America, bank robs you!
I can see it now....
These articles make me sad. I mean, think about it. Doesn't Bill Gates seem like the type of guy you could kick back and watch LotR with? Seriously, he seems like your standard cool dork guy. I wonder how he could have ever sold out like that...
Oh yeah, the billions of dollars he's worth. I'd sell out too for some of that kinda loot. If someone gave me just $1 billion* I'd spend the rest of my life convincing people how cool Microsoft is.
*=obviously, I'm just kidding. My price would definately only be around the $1 million mark
"It describes how its customers and parners are reacting to its heavy-handed tactics..."
So.. what'd they do? Research gunpowder? Build more villagers?
If 27 is middle age, then I guess it's about time for me to buy a flashy new car and have an affair.
-- This and all my posts are in the public domain. I am a lawyer. I am not your lawyer, and this is not legal advice.
In competitors, agreed.
God help us when they go through the teen years and start experimenting with drugs and plotting to kill us.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Right, of course it's conceivable that the word 'Windows' is used to describe something other than Microsoft's Windows, like let's say, windows. Whereas for Linux, you just pretty much get linux... oh, and this thing (and I doubt it generates a lot of the hits)
sic transit gloria mundi
My prediction: In fifty years junior high school kids will be learning about the Gate's vaccine for Malaria. (named after the benefactor for the research)
After, of course, those schoolkids plunk down $25 for a 15-minute limited copy of the Gates Vaccine MS-PDF (tied to their computer at school - if they want to read it at home, it's $50 for the "extra license") on their Trusted Computing Tablet PC (c)
So just legalize marijuana and you can fit linux into your analogy...
- the best crops are created through a community effort in cross breeding
- the only thing you'll have to actually pay for are the initial seeds (think CD's)
- works well in server environments (bong) as well as desktop (hash pipe) and portable (joint) implementations
- companies will initially be leery of this but inevitably everyone's going to have to wonder what this "linux" thing is that's becoming so popular
- a sense of kinship is felt among users (read: Free Love)
Direct away from face when opening.
In MS own hometown The Seattle times doesn't use any MS products to host.. http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=seattlet imes.nwsource.com