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Bill Gates Chews Out Microsoft
s31523 writes "All of us have one time or another been completely frustrated by certain Windows usability issues, and in many cases our experiences have driven us over to Linux, or kept us there. For anyone that has ever been frustrated, you will be happy to know you aren't the only one. After reading this leaked Microsoft memo from Bill Gates back in 2003, you will surely have more insight into why Vista is a complete disaster due to Microsoft not learning anything from their experiences from XP."
q: How do you make a billion dollars?
a: no matter who complains about how crappy the new version of your product is, force its purchase onto your captive audience anyhow. Yay!
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more entertaining than the fake steve Jobs?
I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die.
This billg guy is a known troll that bashes Windows at every opportunity. Remember him showing off Windows 95 and publicly making it bluescreen in front of an audience?
"What is a totem and WTF does it have to do with playing media?"
What's a Google?
What's a Yahoo!?
What's a WinAmp?
What's a Slashdot?
What's a Firefox?
What's an eBay?
What's a NewEgg?
What's a Lightwave?
What's a Nero?
What's an Outlook Express?
What's a Visual Studio?
What's an AutoCAD?
With names like these, no one will ever use them.
Or anything else that you can wedge between those two parts and still have it make some kind of sense.
This could go in Mad Magazine - they do a feature like this regularly. Here are some more choices (pick one from each)
There's not a day that I don't send a piece of e-mail
[after I've smoked 5 joints | praising Satan | from my Mac Book | blasting the idiots who work for me | bidding on a small island nation | trying to destroy slashdot ]
but
[only an idiot would think I wrote something | I've never been stoned enough to write anything | the PI reporter must have been really blasted to make up dreck | only my evil twin writes | Steve Jobs was in my office and sent out a bunch of stuff]
like that piece of e-mail.
It's worth noting that Microsoft would love nothing more than to bundle as many free utilities as they could, but their hands are tied thanks to those who whined to the DOJ.
Fancy 'whining' about MS using its monopoly to illegally put its competitors out of business! You should take it like a man, go bankrupt and allow MS to break the law with impunity.
Asshat.
then this is the one of the best lines ever!
Real. Life. Dilbert.
See here.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
You quote the GP saying
depending on which DE I'm using. and then ask if he knows that they are DEs and not a kernel...Not only that, but you use the term "window managers", which is just ironic, as only one of the 3 is a window manager.
Why do people like you get permission to even use a computer?
Either that or it injects music into your eyeballs.
Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me
Why iz Canada ze most lonely place in ze world? Weil es keine da gibt!
Yes, with humour like that, you can see why they started 2 world wars.
Ooo...this is too much fun...
What's a Google? A whole freaken ton of answers. With advertising! What's a Yahoo!? What you scream when you've just won the lottery. What's a WinAmp? A speaker system facing out of a college dorm window. What's a Slashdot? A fancy name for a DDOS attack. What's a Firefox? A fox that got caught in the hen house and paid for it. What's an eBay? Where eShips pull into the ePort. What's a NewEgg? One that has been recently laid. (Duh?) What's a Lightwave? Something that travels faster than a Soundwave. What's a Nero? Nemo's long lost brother. What's an Outlook Express? The biggest POS ever. What's a Visual Studio? A room with "LIVE CAMERA WEB FEEDS!" What's an AutoCAD? The instant response to a blue screen in Windows. (Auto Ctrl+Alt+Del)Thank you! I'll be here all week. Try the veal.
...like 'Vista is a complete disaster'? A complete disaster? Are you fucking kidding me? Hundreds of thousand of PCs are running Vista right now. How is that a complete disaster? Anyone who says Vista is a complete disaster has NEVER used Vista.
This is my favorite part: "Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up."
Keep up the good work!
When it comes down to it, I am completely sure that Microsoft is where it is in terms of its financial success only because of Bill Gates. Unfortunately, ever since he stepped down, I believe that Mr. Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers has no idea what he's doing. Since Microsoft is so high and mighty, it will take a loooooong time for him to sink that ship, but it will never be what it was under Captain (now Admiral) Gates. And the usability of Windows is following the trend of a negative exponential curve. If you think Vista sux, wait 'till you see 7. And the next version, I think they'll call it Windows Excalibur, that one will be so unusable that computer stores will have big dumpsters outside the front entrance, and people will purchase computers and simply drop them into that dumpster upon leaving the store, without ever opening the box. Or they'll just get a Mac, which by then will run Mac OS 12.7 Pelican. (OS 12 will go by bird names.) Maybe this usability disaster explains why Gates gave Jobs a hug sum of money to develop OS X.
McCain/Palin '08. Now THAT's hope and change!
I think I'll stop here.