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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."
"Well, we don't know everything they are up to, but we do know their slogan and we disagree with that."
From context he's probably not referring to "Don't be evil" -- but seriously, who can turn down a sound bite (sound byte?) like that?
"I'm Feelin Lucky"
They were so cocky about it, they even put it on a button...those bastard!!
"When I am king, you will be first against the wall..."
We'll match what they do
Ha! I knew it! This whole time we were right about Microsoft's plan! Their only goal is to copy! (or buy, whichever is more economical)
Honesty may be the best policy, but by process of elimination, dishonesty is the second best policy.
So, and I'm not trying to be a smartass, the same guys whose flagship product can't empty a recycle bin without seizing, are trying to be leaders in speech and video recognition?
Clippy AV: "Hello User/Bear/Shrub, I see you've brought a Hammer/Salmon/Exhaust Manifold. Would you like me to assist you with it?
[No] [Cancel]
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
Better news would have been the 'face off' with Napoleon Dynamite.
He meant to say as Office gor Bloated and I got Richer...
OK, we all know Gates is the biggest douchebag in Silicon Valley, but who would win in a fight: Larry Paige & Sergey Brin vs. Gates & Ballmer?
I'm fairly certain Paige would thoroughly pound Gates into the floor; but Ballmer is really freakin' scary. That one I'm not so sure of. I'm picturing Ballmer being able to take out both Paige and Brin at the same time.
Then again, Ballmer having Gates as a tag team partner would actually be a hinderence, so I'm thinking Paige and Brin would just barely be able to People's Elbow his ass into submission.
IGB: More fun than eating oatmeal!
Well, we don't know everything they are up to, but we do know their slogan and we disagree with that.
char* slogan = "Don't Be Evil";
char* corporateSlogan;
if(corporateID == GOOGLE)
corporateSlogan = slogan;
else if(corporateID == MICROSOFT)
corporateSlogan = &(slogan[6]);
Bill Gates and his legions of lie-spouting filthmongers deserve the financial grave they're digging for themselves.
Bill should take his ravishing (ahem) wife and go off and do good deeds (as he does, all of my insanity aside) and cure the diseases of the world rather than **RANT BEGINS AGAIN**
fucking the world again and again through the manipulation and domination of the world's computer systems. THAT m'friend is power and Bill Gates is an all too willing handmaiden to the Bushie impulse in the United States. Lying arrogant bastards all of them. Clawing their way to power and woe be he to tries to moderate their lust of the blood of their customers or their citizens.
I'm so frickin' angry I could SPIT!
I hate the way they portray us in the media. You see a Slashdotter and they say we are looting, you see a farker and they say they are looking for food. And, you know, its been five days because most of the people ARE Slashdotters. And even for me to complain, I would be a hypocrite because I would turn away from the TV because it's too hard to watch. I've even been shopping before even giving a donation, so now I'm calling my business manager right to see what is the biggest amount I can give. And just to imagine, if I was down there and those are my people down there. If there is anybody out there that wants to do anything that we can help about the way America is set up the help the poor, the Slashdotters, the less well off as slow as possible. Red cross is doing as much as they can. We already realize a lot of the people that could help are at war right now, fighting another way. And now they've given them permission to go down and shoot us.
I wonder if Bill goes off any sweet jumps...
coding is life
be lawful evil.
"Waste not one watt!" - CZ
It's too much work, even with better tools, I've got things I'd rather be doing. While I may not trust Google to do it the way I'd like, what they end up with will be more than I have interest in doing by myself...
And just what does Gates mean by "tools to organize"-- I doubt he means web-spider programs that will generate your own search engine database-- would it not likely mean that the tools would access a Microsoft database (that they apparently, haven't even bothered to organize) and you could then organize your links into Microsoft's data? Yeah, that sounds better than what Google's doing :-)...
Bill should take his ravishing (ahem) wife and go off and do good deeds...
Google image of Melinda Gates
Damn you for even making me curious!
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
GeneralEmergency
Some just keep patching holes.
The smart ones know when to bail."
This means that Microsoft is actually good, because the new slogan for Google is "Don't be evil, unless it's necessary for the greater good."