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Bill Gates's Last Speech
Ian Lamont writes "Bill Gates, in an address to the TechEd Developers conference, talked about Microsoft's plans for hosted services, and revealed that the company is planning data centers on 'a scale that we haven't thought of before' that will apparently enable the company to offer all of its server-based products over the Internet. The talk did not include details in terms of capacity or scale. This was Gates's final publicly scheduled speech as a full-time Microsoft employee, and he acknowledged that Microsoft's success is 'due to our relationship with developers.' On July 1, he will start spending most of his time at The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation." After that date he will be devoting his "20% time" to Microsoft.
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From now on, Microsoft's success will be due to their relationship with developers, developers, developers, developers.
Five eights availability!
Are you sure that that isn't just what he says he will be doing and he is really trying to become the Debian project leader?
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...and revealed that the company is planning data centers on 'a scale that we haven't thought of before' that will apparently enable the company to offer all of its server-based products over the Internet.
So THAT's where the MSN Music Store servers went! Way to recycle, Microsoft. Go green!
till one of these giant datacenters has an electrical fault like the one last weekend, and instead of 9,000 servers, it's 90,000 servers gone at once...
I hope the 80/20 principle doesn't apply here.
"Developers, developers, developers, developers," the robot, developed using Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio product, repeated over and over, in an homage to Ballmer's famous rant. The robot also raised his arm, showing how he has the ability to "throw eggs," according to the MIT student controlling his movements. Throw eggs. Heh. Throw chairs is more like it.
What changed with Ballmer coming in as CEO was that they became more brash about it. Have you heard of the "frog in boiling water" experiment? Gates was like that - slowly turning up the heat, then before you realize it, you're cooked. Ballmer is more like, first boil the pot of water while cackling maniacally and pointing at you, then pour it directly on your head.
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> Five eights availability!
It's not so impressive when you realize that they actually mean 8.8888%
Indeed, IIRC they even had an internal slogan -- "it's not done til Lotus won't run", or something like that.
:)
If you've used Lotus, you'd know that's not evil.
does this mean he's gonna shut up now?
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Please let it be a flying chair
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Mr. Gates, You get a lot of flack here on /., but one thing is undeniable. Without Microsoft the IT world would be a vastly different and poorer place.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
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I guess this is being announced because after said speech, Gates will lose his voice. ;)
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Microsoft already has 'Millions' of Servers. It's called the Storm botnet.
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Oh yeah, a wide network of linked P2P servers. Simple for every user, just pop on and your desktop is anywhere or everywhere and all you have to do is pay someone else a monthly fee (that they will dictate) and they will take care of you (like our government?) and no one will ever try to break it (like our enemies) or hack your grandma's files (like some young punk with too much time on his hands) and the world will be all spiffy and clean and well ordered. Of course all participants will be well behaved and we'll all be happy and the yoke of M$ will be lifted and the angels will sings.... Your notion is analogous to public mass-transit and will work in about the same manner.
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