----------------------------------- josh Thu Jan 06, 2005 5:03 pm Gates makes a fool of himself ----------------------------------- This CNN article talks about how Bill Gates's presentation in at the Consumer Electronics Show was marred by technicla glitches due to microsoft products, I found it a little amuzing. Check it out here: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/01/06/ces.gates.ap/index.html ----------------------------------- Amailer Thu Jan 06, 2005 5:12 pm ----------------------------------- I thought something like this happned sometimes before also... hmm ----------------------------------- zomg Thu Jan 06, 2005 5:55 pm ----------------------------------- I thought something like this happned sometimes before also... hmm ya windows 98 just crashed on CNN live LOL i can never get enough of that and the way the guy looked after it happened... its funny tho no matter how many times MS products screw up for there own company people still buy them... :? ----------------------------------- Maverick Thu Jan 06, 2005 7:48 pm ----------------------------------- Its funny that no matter how much youa ll make fun of microsoft and Bill Gates. One thing remains.. hes a billionaire, your not. :twisted: ----------------------------------- Cervantes Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:17 pm ----------------------------------- He's also old, compared to us. :D We've got plenty of time to become billionaires. ----------------------------------- rizzix Thu Jan 06, 2005 9:48 pm ----------------------------------- i feel sorry for that guy.. he takes the brunt for his company. :P ----------------------------------- MihaiG Thu Jan 06, 2005 10:30 pm ----------------------------------- if i were him i owuld sell all my shares.... and buy a island in the carribean and retire ----------------------------------- Paul Thu Jan 06, 2005 10:36 pm ----------------------------------- Alright, but you're not him. If you were him, you'd need to think about a couple of things: 1. Having no more control in the company which is his life's work, which he created. 2. Having to care about his kids, who have the right to live a normal life 3. What image would selling his stocks give to the traders. ----------------------------------- josh Thu Jan 06, 2005 11:20 pm ----------------------------------- I realize that he is a billionare, I do give him credit for being a good businessman and managing to make all that money, although, I think that when they have that many people using his software, they have an obliagation to the people that made them rich to try and turn out higher quality software. I actaully have respect for bill gates and what he has managed to do, what I don't have respect for is the sheer crappiness that is sometimes evident in their software. Dont know if that makes sense to you , but it makes perfect sense to me... ----------------------------------- Martin Fri Jan 07, 2005 6:28 am ----------------------------------- Yeah. They say that Bill Gates is rich enough, that if he saw $1000 on the ground, he wouldn't have to pick it up, but he's smart enough that he would. ----------------------------------- zomg Fri Jan 07, 2005 8:03 am ----------------------------------- I actaully have respect for bill gates and what he has managed to do, what I don't have respect for is the sheer crappiness that is sometimes evident in their software. ive always respected the way he became a billionare. i hate the way he tries to force smaller software companies down. its his people skills that got him where he is today, he didnt even kno how to program lol, just bought dos from a friend forlike 10 bucks or something and went form there ----------------------------------- MihaiG Fri Jan 07, 2005 8:47 am ----------------------------------- they bout it from a friend for 40,000 and licesend it to IBM i think... :-D theres a movie.. some like Pirates of Silicon Valley ----------------------------------- Neo Fri Jan 07, 2005 9:47 am ----------------------------------- ive always respected the way he became a billionare. i hate the way he tries to force smaller software companies down. Isn't that how he became a billionaire? By buying out smaller companies so they have less competition? ----------------------------------- josh Fri Jan 07, 2005 2:52 pm ----------------------------------- partially, they also buy smaller companies to add their featured software into windows, such as their recent aquisition of a New York Anti Virus firm, they are going to try and develop their own AV software so they want a point to start from, and they want people with knowledge. ----------------------------------- Brightguy Fri Jan 07, 2005 8:45 pm Re: Gates makes a fool of himself ----------------------------------- After watching documentaries and reading stuff about the history of the PC, you realise just how lucky Microsoft was... Here's a brief outline: When the IBM PC was being launched in 1981, they needed an operating system to ship with it. The most popular operating system at the time was CP/M, created by Gary Kildall. IBM turned to Microsoft because they thought they had the rights to licence CP/M to them, but in fact they did not. So some IBM executives took a visit to see Gary Kildall... but Gary and his wife decided they wouldn't even sign IBM's non-disclosure agreement before negotiations could be made. Apparently they kept them waiting for hours, so they just left and went back to Microsoft for an OS. Microsoft bought QDOS (which was basically just a CP/M clone) from Tim Paterson for a mere $50,000. They turned around and licensed it to IBM, and later to a whole wave of IBM clones. Gates hit the jackpot with that deal. I really wonder what Kildall and Paterson thought after this... ----------------------------------- zomg Fri Jan 07, 2005 10:37 pm ----------------------------------- hmmm while we're on the topic of M$ here an oxy moron(or whatever): Microsoft Works ----------------------------------- josh Sat Jan 08, 2005 1:27 am ----------------------------------- LOL :rofl: ----------------------------------- Maverick Sat Jan 08, 2005 12:35 pm ----------------------------------- If he saw $10,000 on the ground, and stopped to pick it up. He would be losing money. ----------------------------------- zomg Sat Jan 08, 2005 1:27 pm Re: Gates makes a fool of himself ----------------------------------- ...I really wonder what Kildall and Paterson thought after this... i dont kno about him...but i would kill myself i kinda have a story like that to a lesser extent... aparently there is some silver american penny that was a defect or something, im not quite shure of how it was made. but anyway i swear to god i had that penny, and after i heard that it was worth like big $$$$ i cant find it... dam it it still pisses me off ----------------------------------- josh Sat Jan 08, 2005 1:35 pm ----------------------------------- I also have a story sort of like that, I bought the game for Xbox called Air Force Delta Storm, that was pretty much the only flight sim for the xbox, I did not like it tonnes so I returned it. It then becam very hrd to find thae game for a while, then all of a sudden it am out again. apparentluy the original version had the Twin Towers in it and they had to remove them after 9/11 so it was taken off shelves. Some told me that the version I had with them in it might be worht quite a bit.