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20 Years of Bill Gates Predictions

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tell-me-a-story-oh-powerful-oracle dept.

NewsCloud writes "The Seattle PI's Microsoft Blogger Todd Bishop asks "How does Gates shape up as a seer?" None strike me as particularly clairvoyant, but the missed ones are winners: "I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time." and "Two years from now, spam will be solved." But in fairness to Gates, for many years Microsoft's tagline was "a PC on every desktop and in every home.""

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  1. Oh, the irony by ffreeloader · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    On the same day we have /. articles about how Bill Gates predicted how content would be available for fair use and about how the DRM in MCE is shafting users by keeping them from viewing content. Way to go Bill. You killed your own prediction. That is brilliant business planning....

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    "while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." de Tocqueville
  2. Re:OS/2 by dreamchaser · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Because of people with mod points who were still sucking on their mother's tit for sustenance when the events in question happened, and who never bothered to learn computing history.