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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. I predict by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    that he will stay rich, but leave his wife for Steve Jobs.

    1. Re:I predict by eln · · Score: 4, Funny

      Look, I don't know how you got Mr. Gates' private diaries, but you can expect a call from his lawyer shortly.

  2. Re-tooling words a little... by packetmon · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the article... "You'll watch a program when it's convenient for you instead of when a broadcaster chooses to air it." I wonder if he'll soon say... "You'll watch a program when it's convenient for your broadcaster to decipher whether or not by you watching it, it is not pirated, the operating system pushing your media center is not pirated, it has passed the then behemoth MPAA/RIAA/DoJ/DHS joint task force aptly named NOMIND or "National Oversight on Mentally Intergrating National Deficencies" benchmark tests which include:

    1) Methods to ensure proper copyrighted procedures (RIAA)
    2) Methods to ensure proper filtering and re-programming the American Apple Pie way (MPAA)
    3) Methods to ensure political correctedness (addenDumb to new DoJ/Christian Law "Thou shall not criticize thine government" doctrine)
    4) Methods to ensure Osama is not in your living room and or you are not exporting crypto to him or his terrorist via any methods including telekinesis.

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  3. Re:What's the problem here? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    /me can't believe you didn't RTFA.

  4. Re:What's the problem here? by tecie · · Score: 5, Funny

    /me can't believe you didn't RTFA. You must be new here.
  5. Re:CEOs are not seers by hiryuu · · Score: 4, Funny

    Would Oedipus have killed his father had the Oracle at Delphi never prophecied that he would and thus his father never sent him to die in the wilderness? Had the witches not said that Macbeth would not be harmed by any of woman born, would he have gone down the path that led to him being killed by the C-section-birthed Macduff?

    Awww, man, would it have killed you to put a "SPOILER" warning on that?

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  6. Re:On CEOs as seers. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    > Martian religion

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology