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Bill Gates's The Road Ahead, 15 Years Later
smooth wombat writes "It's been 15 years since Bill Gates wrote his book The Road Ahead, in which he talks about how technology would shape the future. In the intervening years, technology has changed many aspects of our lives for better and worse. So how did Bill do on his predictions? The Atlantic takes a look at the hits and misses of some of his prognostications. Overall, it appears Bill let optimism guide his thoughts, except when it came to the Internet — his biggest miss of all."
Bing and Google actually both give pretty much the same results.
Yes, if you are searching for "Britney Spears". If you are remotely interested in searching for something not mundane, guess what? Google owns Bing. Sorry.
Bing itself was innovative from Microsoft, even so far that Google copied Bing's sidebar from them,
Oh my God. Stop the presses. Now. So, this is innovation just like putting a nice background over the search bar right? Are you for real? No really, do you think two seconds before you post some garbage? I guess no Apple/Google threads to troll today. Do you want to remove your lips from Ballmer's cock for one second?
But this is true for every large corporation. Actually even more so for Apple, who haven't actually done much else than polished BSD and open source projects.
Oh shit, I knew it was coming. Another Apple troll by Ballmer's Cock Jock. Nice try, you failed. So iPhone OS and iDevices are "not much"? Sure, that's why everyone and their dogs are scrambling to copy it and improve upon. AppStore - iTunes eco system. Oops, no innovation right? Fucking christ sopssa, ever read your own posts before hitting submit?
Microsoft still spends millions into R&D while Apple does nothing like that.
Are you fucking dense? Hint hint, read this. Note the 2008 date? Note the 11000 hires for R&D. Note the 1.1 billion $ cost of it? Sure, Apple just sucks on Ballmer's cock and Ballmer gives them all the cool stuff right?
Google isn't really that innovative either.
Did you bother watching Google I/O presentation the last two days? Ever tried Gmail or other Google apps?
I think Courier was quite innovative.
A copied device using a touch screen with a copied operating system. Very innovative.
Visual Studio per se probably isn't innovative, but it's a really stable product and better than anything else on the market.
Using that logic, hey, Google Search isn't really innovative, but dude, it's the best thing on the market.
Microsoft also used to publish great and also innovative games
Dungeon Siege? Aka Diablo II ripoff? Or Halo? Aka random FPS like millions of others? Sure. Innovation! Oh wait, no, they bought those companies or got in an exclusive contract. Innovation? Lay down the crack pipe, and Ballmer's cock.
Jeebus fucking Christ, what a troll, and of course sockpuppets and idiot moderators are giving this douche +5 insightful. Good job moderators! Good job!