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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]);
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
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."