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Gates Says "A Lot of Work" Ahead In IT Development

Posted by Zonk on from the last-continental-words dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Bill Gates concluded his last Microsoft-associated public appearance in the EU today with comments about the future of IT. The long-time company head said that there's still a lot of work to be done before Information Technology resources truly come into their own. '"There's another side that is how software is allowing people to be more productive at work. It's the empowerment of these people to do their jobs more effectively." Gates also commented on the potential of the Internet, calling it a "huge democratization tool". But Gates said there is still a long road ahead for tech development. "It's come a long way in the last 30 years but we're not even halfway there with building the systems we need to have."'"

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  1. Coincidence? by Phillup · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I'm sure this has absolutely nothing to do with it.

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    --Phillip

    Can you say BIRTH TAX
  2. Just fucking retire already! by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I spent all day today tracking down the reason why one of our lab XP machines would only respond with "Access Denied!" to any attempt to log in remotely. A web search produced at least four dozen distinct possibilities from simple sharing settings to obscure security flags you need a team of digital Sherpas to even find

    *My* problem turned out to be one of the really obscure ones, and by sheer luck it was the second one I tried or I'd be working this tomorrow as well. The problem with *IT* is that the dominant OS is a deliberately obfuscated pile of week old baboon jism.

    I had to use RegEdit last week to make Visio behave the way I wanted to. WTF is that? Is that supposed to be even remotely sane? And this week it's reverted back to its old behavior for no known reason.

    1. Re:Just fucking retire already! by GreggBz · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Welcome to IT. Today, I had to: 1.) Figure out what "not in top of zone" meant in my BIND logs after tweaking a zone file. 2.) Get awk to not barf on an address book import script that happened to have 1 swiss character to deal with. 3.) Rebuild my RPM database cause Mandriva's update utility crashed on my workstation. 4.) Tirelessly search Cisco's website for an undocumented IOS command that I needed. Mod ME up!