How Microsoft Has Changed Without Bill Gates

mightysquirrel writes "It's been a year since Bill Gates left Microsoft in his official capacity. At the time many speculated his departure would spark a significant shift in Redmond. But how much has really changed during Microsoft's first year without Gates?"

Comments

Not much...

[Ringthane]

Judging by the pricing of Windows 7 Ultimate, it's business as usual at Microsoft.

Furniture positions?

[Skiron]

I guess a few chairs have been moved around a bit...

Re:No Mention of Bing or Natal?

[VGPowerlord]

Bing is just a rename of MSN Search or Live Search or whatever it was called before. Microsoft products have gone through name changes just for the sake of it under BG too.

No they haven't! Now, stop distracting me; I'm trying to finish this month's budget in Multiplan!

Microsoft Corporate Headquarters

[actionbastard]

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious."

Re:How soon we forget

[Big Hairy Ian]

Having to press the "Start" button in order to shutdown your PC was surely M$'s only great innovation :)

Re:How soon we forget

[dmarcov]

I didn't. My first computer was a 8-bit machine.

My first computer didn't even have 8-bits. It had 2, but you couldn't use both at the same time. You had to go up 7 floors to get the other bit and then swap them out.

Re:How soon we forget

[Thing 1]

OT: I think your sig would be a lot more amusing if the lines were swapped. :)

Re:Don't teach the myth; Learn the truth

[rezalas]

go ahead and think that, but I never had issues with 95 beyond rigging it up so I could use the upgrade edition to install instead of the full edition. Manually creating empty files with the appropriate names and folder structure allowed you to trick it into thinking you had windows 3.11 and it would then delete them and install as a full version. But keep your illusion I'm sure it feels good to assume everything about people.

Re:How soon we forget

[generic.individual]

MS is a huge innovator, just not in the sense your are thinking. MS innovates in the way it brings emerging technologies together and markets them to consumers.

Ford didn't invent the automobile, but it was sure and innovator of the automotive industry.

Re:How soon we forget

[jcr]

I use Keynote. It saved my life. If I'd had to do one more WWDC presentation with Powerpoint, I'd have shot myself.

-jcr

Re:How soon we forget

[Zero__Kelvin]

"If it crashed continually, then only retards would have been buying software that reboots infinitely."

Wow! Even I wouldn't be that harsh on you for being an admitted Windows user! Don't be so hard on yourself. You're not a retard, you are just going way out of your way to stay grossly misinformed (and far too proud and eager to let it be known to the world.)

"If you want to blame someone for 9x crashing then perhaps you should blame the fucking dumbasses who kept buying it and programming for it instead of supporting something else. :)"

We already do blame you, but thanks for the suggestion ...