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Bill Gates Speaks Out
neoform writes "The Seattle PI is running an interesting interview with Bill Gates." In the article Gates comments on Vista, Google, and a few other pertinent topics. In an amusing bit of related news, an anonymous reader let us know that CNET is also running an interview with Gates. In the CNET interview Gates gives a very interesting response to one of the interview questions. "CNET: So that would be the philosophical difference between Microsoft and what Google is up to at this point? Gates: Well, we don't know everything they are up to, but we do know their slogan and we disagree with that."
billg, per the article: "we do know their slogan and we disagree with that." If the great software maker can't or won't specify any better than that what he disagrees with, we have to go look for it.
Would you prefer "We don't believe in pop-up ads"? or are you arguing that neither google nor billg are going to give people tools to let them organize the world's information?
Do you really want to blame Apple for the atrocity that is Windows?
No, what I really think is that people don't give the market as a whole a fair shake when it comes to UI heritages.
They pretty much all started from Xerox PARC, and percolated out from various sources, everyone taking a little from here, a little from there. To say that MS stole from Apple is to ignore all the other superior graphical systems at the time that MS chose to borrow from (my personal favorite being the GEM window system). Also, it implies that Apple had something really innovative as far as UI, which is largely untrue (Apple definitely did CREATIVE work in the development in the UI, but conceptually, architecturally, I don't think there was anything truly new).
Inconceivable!