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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. Re:CEOs are not seers by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 0, Troll

    These sorts of comments can often be successful at moving the industry because people automatically equate wealth and power with wisdom.


    People? Who people? Speak for yourself!

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  2. Give it a rest by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    the problem with the editorial staff here on /. is their obsession with MSFT. DO you guys realize that your infatuation with mac stems from an artificial hatred of MSFT? Linux is a standalone movement but the more annoying fringe is the hatred of MSFT... this hate is fabricated and entertained by the editorial choices made here. You are fed shit and keep on asking for shit?

    Give it a rest already! The MSFT bashing is just like geek teenage acne, an ugly phase. You are obsessed with anything MSFT, it is unhealthy.