Bill Gates Swears Vow Against 'Son of iPod'

Future Linux-Guru writes "The LA Times is running an article on Microsoft's efforts to preempt any single manufacturer from dominating the online video market. Among the scarier revelations is the development of AACS, a new already approved security system designed to prevent piracy on HD DVDs, which subjects users to forced upgrades." From the article: "Whichever way it shakes out, Gates vows not to play the victim in 'Son of iPod.' After learning a hard lesson in the digital music business, 'we're really having to work more closely with partners in the hardware industry and content industry, to really think through the whole end-to-end experience and make it better,' Gates said. 'That's where we've done our mea culpa. We are fixing that.'"

Comments

... done our mea culpa?

[dscho]

Not parse this sentence does.

I am your Father

[urbanshepherd]

Is the son of an iPod an iPea?

Define irony

[FidelCatsro]

Microsoft Taking a stand against monopolys

Bill gates means

[Arthur B.]

"we're really having to work more closely with partners in the hardware industry and content industry, to really think through the whole end-to-end experience and make it better"

work more closely -> control
think thorugh the whole experience -> control
make it better -> abuse our vertical dominant position

Other things Bill Gates swore by

[sl4shd0rk]

There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go.
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In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s."
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Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.
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If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
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Microsoft programs are generally bug-free. If you visit the Microsoft hotline, you'll literally have to wait weeks if not months until someone calls in with a bug in one of our programs. 99.99% of calls turn out to be user mistakes. I know not a single less irrelevant reason for an update than bugfixes.
The reasons for updates are to present more new features.

(sources)
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/bill_g ates.html
http://www.antioffline.com/HUM/bill.gates.quotes.h tml