Jesus, why the anti-Gates zealotry? Are you that blinded by your hate of Microsoft to see that what you're saying makes no sense?
Bill Gates dropped out of college to create his own company. Through his efforts, he ended up the richest man in the world. Now you may say that money in and of itself doesn't make someone interesting, but there are hundreds of thousands of people trying to do the same thing he did, but only he acheived the astronomical success that he did. Why? Because he's exceptional by the very definition of the word.
Here's a question for Bill Gates himself: Don't you get tired of having so many people curse your name every time their machine crashes? I would feel very sorry if my Operating System hurt other people when I could fix it with virtually no trouble.
If he could fix it 'with virtually no trouble', don't you think he would? Do you think that he sits there saying to himself 'Hmm.. I know that NT 4.0 isn't as stable as it could be, and if I just spent a couple a hundred thousand and a couple of months, I could fix it... Nah! Not this month. I'll just let user perception of my O/S deteriorate and lose market share! Yeah. That's the ticket!' Or, do you think that Bill Gates has had his engineers look into the problem and discovered that it's a really really deep and fundamental issue that isn't easily fixed, and that the best way to deal with it (and make more money for his stockholders) is to address the bugs and issues while at the same time, rewrite the O/S from scratch, learning from past mistakes?
I don't know what is going to be done about the problem, but I do know that your assertion that he could fix the problems with 'virtually no trouble' is totally wrong and is an idiotic statement.
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Jesus, why the anti-Gates zealotry?
Are you that blinded by your hate of Microsoft to see that what you're saying makes no sense?
Bill Gates dropped out of college to create his own company. Through his efforts, he ended up the richest man in the world.
Now you may say that money in and of itself doesn't make someone interesting, but there are hundreds of thousands of people trying to do the same thing he did, but only he acheived the astronomical success that he did. Why? Because he's exceptional by the very definition of the word.
Here's a question for Bill Gates himself: Don't you get tired of having so many people curse your name every time their machine crashes? I would feel very sorry if my Operating System hurt other people when I could fix it with virtually no trouble.
If he could fix it 'with virtually no trouble', don't you think he would? Do you think that he sits there saying to himself 'Hmm.. I know that NT 4.0 isn't as stable as it could be, and if I just spent a couple a hundred thousand and a couple of months, I could fix it... Nah! Not this month. I'll just let user perception of my O/S deteriorate and lose market share! Yeah. That's the ticket!'
Or, do you think that Bill Gates has had his engineers look into the problem and discovered that it's a really really deep and fundamental issue that isn't easily fixed, and that the best way to deal with it (and make more money for his stockholders) is to address the bugs and issues while at the same time, rewrite the O/S from scratch, learning from past mistakes?
I don't know what is going to be done about the problem, but I do know that your assertion that he could fix the problems with 'virtually no trouble' is totally wrong and is an idiotic statement.
Peace.