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Bill Gates Talk From 1989 Surfaces
70sstar writes "A 1-1/2 hour recording of Bill Gates addressing a crowd of university students in 1989 was recently found and digitized, and has been circulating in some IRC channels for the past few weeks. The speech has found a permanent home on the web page of the University of Waterloo CS Club, where the talk is reported to have taken place. Gates covers the past, present, and future of computing as of 1989. While the former two might be of interest to tech historians, the real fascination is Gates's prediction of computing yet to come. Like the now-legendary '640k' remark, some of his comments are almost laughably off-target ('OS/2 is the way of the future!'). And yet, by and large, he had accurately, chillingly, prophesied an entire decade or two of software and hardware development. All in all, a fascinating talk from one of the most powerful speakers in CS and IT."
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Hey Microsoft. The internet is here. It's 1995. You seemed to have forgotten about us!
FYI: Bill's stupid book: "The road ahead" seems to forget to mention the internet. Kudos MS. You seemed to forget the whole fucking thing!
"I was sort of unimpressed because he didn't discuss anything that was new or that I didn't already know about."
Wow. Maybe you should have been the one doing the presentation...
Any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
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Bearing in mind that M$ software, services and support were far cheaper and of a much higher quality in those days. The manuals were excellent, tutorial disks were provided free etc. then the good people left and the ass wipe remained and basically M$ now reflects the morals, integrity and qualities of a typical failed jockstrap insurance salesman.
Those same qualities will of course bring about the fall of company from being a leader to a historical note in the evolution of computer technology.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
What is it with all the Microsoft propaganda here recently? Vista vista vista vista. Bill Gates this, Bill Gates that. Now this crap. Slashdot used to be about Linux. Now it's half a Microsoft blog.
Original Geek that is. One of the few.
One of the extremely few smart enough to get rich doing it.
Of that very small bunch, he did it the best.
Get over it, Bill is geekier and smarter than you.
Pwned.
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
Hey fucktard, it's GB, not GiB. GiB is one of those fucktarded terms like KiB, MiB, and TiB; and it is as fucktarded as you. So why don't you save darwin the trouble and go slit your fucking wrists fucktard.
If I'm not mistaken there were some versions of DOS that, as released, would break legacy versions of Lotus 1-2-3. There were even reports of Microsoft executives saying "DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run."