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Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point'

Posted by samzenpus on from the almost-as-good-as-3.1 dept.

BobJacobsen writes "CBSnews.com has an article about Bill Gates and Steve Balmer answering questions at the 'All Things Digital' conference. When asked about 'high points' in his time at Microsoft, Gates replied 'Windows 95 was a nice milestone.' The article continues 'He also spoke highly of Microsoft SharePoint Server software, but didn't mention Vista.' Was there really nothing else that Gates considered a high point?"

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  1. A crack-high moment. by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seriously tho' - take a look at the photo of Bill & Steve answering questions - have you ever seen such defensive body language? I almost felt sorry for them - but then I remembered they were responsible for Windows 95.

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    1. Re:A crack-high moment. by pilgrim23 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Bill didn't mention getting his picture taken in Albuquerque? http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2007-12/34454506.jpg

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    2. Re:A crack-high moment. by Opportunist · · Score: 5, Funny

      I know trojans that are better than 3.1.

      Hell, I wrote software the bugs of which were better than 3.1.

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    3. Re:A crack-high moment. by AnotherUsername · · Score: 2, Funny

      The Wheel?

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    4. Re:A crack-high moment. by KillerBob · · Score: 2, Funny

      The lever? (simple machine, not the soap... though this being /., the soap is probably the more important innovation....)

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    5. Re:A crack-high moment. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
      One day I'm going to get a Mac Pro Mini to run Duke Nukem Forever under Wine 1.0 on GNU Hurd.

      ...but when you've got 'em, you'll still be waiting for WinFS...

    6. Re:A crack-high moment. by digitrev · · Score: 2, Funny

      Ahh, but may I direct you the prior art of round fruit?

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    7. Re:A crack-high moment. by myth_of_sisyphus · · Score: 2, Funny

      You should have seen CNN when Vista came out. Gates was giving a presentation of all the new Vista features.

      One of the reporters said "Many of these features have been available on Macs for years." Oh man, Bill Gates was stuttering mad. It was great because I think the reporter was totally clueless about the Mac/Microsoft rivalry and just asked the questions on observations he made while watching Gates's presentation.

      It was very funny.

    8. Re:A crack-high moment. by LaskoVortex · · Score: 1, Funny

      I know trojans that are better than 3.1.

      I know used trojans that are better than 3.1

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    9. Re:A crack-high moment. by indifferent+children · · Score: 3, Funny

      Heck, us Linux users call that kind of machine a "graphics workstation".

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  2. That explains it. by The+Ancients · · Score: 3, Funny

    Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point'

    They were high when they developed it?

    That would explain Windows ME.

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    1. Re:That explains it. by metlin · · Score: 5, Funny

      You mean, like the Ballmer peak?

    2. Re:That explains it. by NoobixCube · · Score: 4, Funny

      There was no smoking. Bill stole Steve's Ritalin.

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    3. Re:That explains it. by tcdk · · Score: 2, Funny

      In a strange coincident, worthy of Douglas Adams, "Stole" actually translates to "chairs" in Danish...

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  3. Bob? by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 1, Funny

    Bob?

  4. What? by msauve · · Score: 2, Funny

    Has Bill already forgotten about the Softcard. That was a pretty good product from when Microsoft was in their prime.

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  5. Re:I'd've said 98se, if I were going that route... by Nossie · · Score: 2, Funny

    I agree....

    XP SP1 or SP2 was a good solid OS

    Actually so was Win 98SE

    Just proves MS cant do anything right first time

  6. Re:How about.. by Lehk228 · · Score: 5, Funny

    maybe most people on slashdot. if you start talking about breezy badges, gutsy gibbons, and hard herons in the average convenience store most people will just think you are some kind of pervert

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  7. Other High points by certain+death · · Score: 2, Funny

    Smoking reefer with all the Apple guys, Doing acid with all the Apple guys, Eating Peyote with all the Apple guys, Drinking enough alcohol to sink a battleship with all the Apple guys, and then stealing all their good ideas!! 1.)??? 2.)??? 3.)Profit!

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  8. Re:Ah, I remember Windows XP by Darkness404 · · Score: 3, Funny

    No it wasn't. XP was a finished version of 2000.

    In general though, Windows 2K is much faster then XP and so if more bloat == complete then I guess I know why Vista is so Bloated... I mean complete.
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  9. Re:Very defensive about Vista. by Godji · · Score: 3, Funny

    And Daniel Robbins! Definitely Daniel Robbins!

    emerge --sync && emerge -uND world -av ; etc-update

    ...

    Ahh.. the daily dose of GCC output...

  10. Re:leaps and bounds... by krelian · · Score: 2, Funny

    I always thought of 3.1 as a souped up Norton Commander.

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  12. I like windows by ELTaNiN · · Score: 2, Funny

    Whatever some people say, I LIKE WINDOWS, Because it's the only commercial rootkit available!!!

  13. High-point of Microsoft by sinewalker · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think the high-point in Microsoft during Gates' carerr definately has to be when they decided to remove the paperclip from Microsoft Office.

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