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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 aussie_a · · Score: 0, Redundant

    that he will stay rich, and beat his wife for Steve Jobs.

  2. He can't see the future of governance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I'll bet he didn't see the open source government coming. It's too open for closed-source/money-grubbing/power-hungry people to understand.

    Now that it is starting, you can damn well bet he and/or Rupert Murdoch will try to coopt it. Like something that open and distributed could ever succumb to a single entity!