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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.
Microsoft has created absolutely no products that weren't copied or predicated on someone elses work. So, it isn't that it has been that way for the past few years. They have never during their whole history. I wish people would just look at Microsoft for what they are--a copycat. They are destined to failure because they have become such a behemoth that they are bound to collapse in on themselves.
Not only that, when you consider how much money these guys are hoarding everyone should be questioning whether we want more of the same mentality that goes into this form of hoarding. Can you imagine a man with a trillion dollars to his name while most of the rest of the world starves and all this trillionaire can do is tell countries that he'll help them as long as they commit to buying his products?
You can lead a man with reason but you can't make him think.
Phonetical joke, seven-digiter.
Microsoft put the "sucks" in "success".
"Bill Gates has contributed more to modern computing than any other ten people together. Most people in IT owe a debt of gratitude because without his contribution most of you wouldn't have jobs"
You over-estimate the impact of bill, someone would have come along. Many technologies are simply wiating in the wings for the right person to come along, as long as new people are born into the world, there will always be more bill gates. The fact is he is not the sole reason for his success, the early adopters and the population count for a lot as well. The culture of the population matters just as much. If we lived in a culture of strong luddites I doubt he would have succeeded.