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Your Chance to Meet Bill Gates

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i'd-love-to-interview-him dept.

tcak writes "From the CNET article: "You could meet the chairman of Microsoft, but you'll have to profess a passion for Windows first. Microsoft is looking for true stories about people using Windows computers to pursue a passion or hobby. The company plans to use them in a marketing blitz tied to the 20th anniversary of Windows' debut. ""

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  1. Re:Apple's Switch by linuxci · · Score: 4, Interesting
    It's good to see Microsoft are worried on all fronts at the moment, they must be spending more than they ever have on improving products and advertising. You can't visit a tech site (even slashdot) without seeing ads that are saying that Windows is cheaper than Linux (unless you block ads*). Now they're doing an Apple style campaign to respond to people switching to Mac or maybe Linux on the desktop. They've revived the IE team and spending a fortune trying to patch the security holes in their swiss chesse products.


    *I'd never block Microsoft's ads, sometimes I even click them in order to give the site some free money from Microsoft.

  2. Re:Passion by xtracto · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Oh man, that is because you did not worked in this place where I used to work, they are trying to be Microsoft Gold partners or something like that and the Chief is certainly a Microsoft Windows Fanboy (tm).

    So yup, I have had the chance to work with two or three MS and Windows fanboys/zealots, whatever

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    Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
  3. Passion = yes, gratefull = yes, Annoyed = HELL YES by B5_geek · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A lot of us got our start with non-MS OS's, but we all owe Billy a thank-you for making PC's available to non-business's.

    If it wasn't for MS, IBM would prolly still be stong-arming the MainFrame Only sales pitch. Yes Apple was first, but it just didn't catch on the way that Windows did.

    I don't like his products (although Outlook2003 is damn spiffy), I don't like his embrace/engulf style, but I do love the fact that without him I wouldn't have the career that I do today. I owe him thanks.

    C64 -> WFWG 3.11 -> OS/2 v3 & v4 -> Linux

    I believe that MS-DOS 6.22 was the best OS that Microsoft has ever made.

    Without the millions of home PC's running Windows, we would still be using 486's running at 100MHz.

    Thank-you Bill. Now please just go away.

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    "The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~Plato (427-347 BC)