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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.

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

    /me can't believe you didn't RTFA. You must be new here.