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Information Overload Overblown, Says Gates

Posted by Zonk on from the warning-warning-does-not-compute-does-not-compute dept.

Aarthi writes "Microsoft's annual CEO meet-and-greet kicked off on Thursday with the company's Chairman, Bill Gates, countering the notion that the workers today are not overloaded with information.'We still want a lot of information.' He also outlined plans for Office 12, the next version of its desktop software, which is due to arrive in the second half of next year." From the article: "There is a real temptation that the thing that comes in the latest is the one you shift your attention to, even though that may be the least important...That turns you into a filing clerk."

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  1. countering ... not by Paul+Rose · · Score: 5, Informative

    "countering the notion that the workers today are not overloaded with information"
    I think he is countering the notion that workers areoverloaded with info

  2. Re:Don't you get it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Small correction. This is slashdot.
    You might physically be in America whilst i am not.

    The words just comes to me :-)

  3. Re:He's great at marketing, but sadly a poor engin by Eternally+optimistic · · Score: 2, Informative

    C hasn't "given way" to C++, or to anything. There is plenty of C programming going on today. The same is true for C++ vs. C#, there is a lot more C++ in use than C#.

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  4. grammar much? by PMuse · · Score: 3, Informative

    TFA stated a confusing idea right: Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Thursday countered the popular notion that workers are universally overloaded with too much information.

    TFAS, OTOH, garbled it: "Microsoft's . . . meet-and-greet kicked off on Thursday with . . . Gates . . . countering the notion that the workers today are not overloaded with information.

    Welcome to slashdot, I guess.

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  5. Re:family connections, genetics, and good educatio by roman_mir · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here is some of Gate's Bio. Incomplete of-course.

    'Old Money' has nothing to do with computer industry. Gate's great-grandfather was J.W. Maxwell - founder of Seattle's National City Bank (1906). Gate's grandfather was James Willard Maxwell - banker, who established a million dollar trust for William (Bill) Henry Gates III.

    From the article:

    William Henry Gates, Jr. and Mary Maxwell were among Seattle's social and financial elite. Bill Gates, Jr. was a prominent corporate lawyer while Mary Maxwell was a board member of First Interstate Bank and Pacific Northwest Bell. She was also on the national board of United Way, along with John Opel, the chief executive officer of IBM who approved the inclusion of MS/DOS with the original IBM PC.


    Remind your parents not to send you to public school. Bill Gates went to Lakeside, Seattle's most exclusive prep school where tuition in 1967 was $5,000 (Harvard tuition that year was $1760). Typical classmates included the McCaw brothers, who sold the cellular phone licenses they obtained from the U.S. Government to AT&T for $11.5 billion in 1994. When the kids there wanted to use a computer, they got their moms to hold a rummage sale and raise $3,000 to buy time on a DEC PDP-10, the same machine used by computer science researchers at Stanford and MIT.

    and so on. Does this answer your question?

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