Gates to step down

Bill is an icon of this world, he will be remembered for ever and ever, I am sure his bad will be forgotten with time passing
 
I think it is great as he will now have more time to focus on his charity work.
He had a good innings. The man changed the world.
 
I thank Bill for:

* countless headaches with his crappy OSes (Win '98/ Win ME, Win 95)
* Tons of overtime in my troubled youth
* Gigabytes of lost data and work
* Slow computing
* Bloat
 
Turiko said:
I thank Bill for:

* countless headaches with his crappy OSes (Win '98/ Win ME, Win 95)
* Tons of overtime in my troubled youth
* Gigabytes of lost data and work
* Slow computing
* Bloat
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Well, think of it this way. Without him, where do you think PC's would have ended up? Do you think that it would be so advanced as it currently is? As much as we hate to admit it, Bill Gates did contribute to about 90% of all computer progress over the past few decades. ;)
 
I think Bill Gates has actually suffered for being the 'face' of Micro$oft. We simply don't know if he was really responsible for many of their borderline unethical (and sometimes blatantly so) business practises. I'd say most of Bill's actual work was during the DOS ages, and he gave PCs a great boost because of it. So kudo's to him.

But yeah...he should get a job at Google and run Linux on his machine. Seems almost like he's getting out while the going is good...M$ has a lot of tough problems to solve soon, or else they die.
 
To Uncle Bill

Thanks for bringing us windows, it's much more superior to that old Amiga, BBC, ZX Spectrum crap that we played with when we were little, and with windows and dos we got all those Sierra quest games, the lan sessions where we played quake 2, etc. If not for windows, our lives wouldve been much more crappy today.

As for the linux guys, keep dreaming, you're fighting a lost war long long ago. The fact that linux has soo many version etc etc, isnt gonna help your cause.

To Steve Jobs, thanks for bringing the MACS back, and yes MAC OS is much better than linux. Cant wait to have your OS FULLY WORKING ON PCS. I believe someone got mac osx running on a asus eee pc. Well done.
 
Thanks gates, you played a good part in that one movie, pirates of silicon valley! (hehe)
 
He came, he saw, he conquered. :D

Few men can say that they have done that in their respective fields of work.
 
Well Done Gates....but

Well done Mr. Gates you certainly changed the world and made it your oyster....and produced many, many pearls. Although I am not technically knowledgeable on the ins and outs of Microsoft packages it is a fact that it being used by lots and lots of people.
However, it is a monopoly.....I am really interested in why people are quick to criticise Telkom on monopoly and then in the same breath praise another monopoly.......Business day has an article about the hypocrisy that reigns in SA, is this just another one of those?
Here is a man that didn't create Microsoft by himself (some say he stole some of the concepts from a good friend), proceeds to dominate the world through dictatorship and literally squash competition, gets away with holding the world to ransom with an operating system that has never been stable...and we call him a hero.:rolleyes: makes one think...
 
Sorry people it was in the Sunday Times and not Business Day...my bad.....
 
Nuxxy said:
But yeah...he should get a job at Google and run Linux on his machine. Seems almost like he's getting out while the going is good...M$ has a lot of tough problems to solve soon, or else they die.
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I am willing to bet that Bill knows more about penguins than most penguin lovers. :)
 
Elfpierre said:
Well done Mr. Gates you certainly changed the world and made it your oyster....and produced many, many pearls. Although I am not technically knowledgeable on the ins and outs of Microsoft packages it is a fact that it being used by lots and lots of people.
However, it is a monopoly.....I am really interested in why people are quick to criticise Telkom on monopoly and then in the same breath praise another monopoly.......Business day has an article about the hypocrisy that reigns in SA, is this just another one of those?
Here is a man that didn't create Microsoft by himself (some say he stole some of the concepts from a good friend), proceeds to dominate the world through dictatorship and literally squash competition, gets away with holding the world to ransom with an operating system that has never been stable...and we call him a hero.:rolleyes: makes one think...
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Don't confuse 'monopoly' with 'de-facto standard'.

You're probably not old enough to remember, but there was a time when Microsoft competed in the computing market just like everyone else and was a young start-up trying to find a niche (anyone remember ROM-based MS-BASIC?) in a world dominated by IBM.

Novell thought they were always going to dominate the network and did not realise the threat of Microsoft. Remember Lotus 1-2-3 or Wordperfect?

The point is, love them or hate them, Microsoft got where it is on it's own steam. And changed the world forever.
 
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Someone talked about Gates contributing towards advancement of computers bla bla, and that "Amiga" crap. Well let me tell you - the Amiga 1 was the most advanced home computer in the world when it came out in 1985. It had 4096 colours with a dedicated graphics chip, compared to the PC CGA 3-colour yuck. It had full multichannel sound compared to the PC beeper. It had a GUI OS that fitted in 1 meg compared to DOS and the bloatware called windows that came out years later. But no due to aggressive marketing of rubbish, Gates took over the world and innovative companies like Commodore fell by the wayside. I can only imagine what we would have had today if the Amiga was allowed to evolve. SGI would have looked like nintendos compared to what computers should have been. Guys don't comment if you don't know the history.
 
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vodacom3g said:
Don't confuse 'monopoly' with 'de-facto standard'.

You're probably not old enough to remember, but there was a time when Microsoft competed in the computing market just like everyone else and was a young start-up trying to find a niche (anyone remember ROM-based MS-BASIC?) in a world dominated by IBM.

Novell thought they were always going to dominate the network and did not realise the threat of Microsoft. Remember Lotus 1-2-3 or Wordperfect?

The point is, love them or hate them, Microsoft got where it is on it's own steam. And changed the world forever.
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I have to say, I agree with that one 100%, Microsoft did change a lot of things some for better.

LancelotSA said:
Can I take a different view to the usual "we hate microsoft" stance that we usually take and say that we do have to acknowledge what the man has done for the personal computer... yes in the latter years we may object to the attempted monopoly and other business practices but he played a part in getting a pc into every home.

For this I thank Bill Gates. Enjoy your retirement!
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This might shock you, but I agree with your post. Very well said and I have to totally agree with you, I feel the same way.

Corelli said:
Thanks for bringing us windows, it's much more superior to that old Amiga, BBC, ZX Spectrum crap that we played with when we were little, and with windows and dos we got all those Sierra quest games, the lan sessions where we played quake 2, etc. If not for windows, our lives wouldve been much more crappy today.

As for the linux guys, keep dreaming, you're fighting a lost war long long ago. The fact that linux has soo many version etc etc, isnt gonna help your cause.

To Steve Jobs, thanks for bringing the MACS back, and yes MAC OS is much better than linux. Cant wait to have your OS FULLY WORKING ON PCS. I believe someone got mac osx running on a asus eee pc. Well done.
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Not something you see everyday an MS fanboi and a Apple Fanboi all in one:eek:
 
People are just upset because they cannot do what he did ! he saw an opportunity and he took it ! he and jobs thinks in the same manner, like jobs quoted razidsky a few days ago, he said he does not skate where the puck is but skates to where the puck is going to be and bill gates is a person that did that !
 
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People are just upset because they cannot do what he did ! he saw an opportunity and he took it ! he and jobs thinks in the same manner, like jobs quoted razidsky a few days ago, he said he does not skate where the puck is but skates to where the puck is going to be and bill gates is a person that did that !
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The thing Gates got right was to balance technical innovation with business. Over a very long period. I started using his products first in 1978, 30 years ago! I'm typing this on Vista. (As much as I KNOW Unix is better, I still get the best *overall* experience from MS)

There are way to many disgruntled geniuses out there who could not turn their ideas into sustainable business.

Unfortunately one of my personal heroes (Sir Clive Sinclair) is one of them. A genius of note but has been bankrupt more times than not.
 
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GreatBigMouth said:
Well, think of it this way. Without him, where do you think PC's would have ended up? Do you think that it would be so advanced as it currently is? As much as we hate to admit it, Bill Gates did contribute to about 90% of all computer progress over the past few decades. ;)
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Microsoft held back real innovation in the PC space. Long before windows 95, we had AmigaOS which was a 32-bit true multi-tasking OS that did not break everytime you tried to use it for anything interesting. Around the time of Windows 95, we had BeOS. BeOS was a very impressive and performant OS. It could do things with media that Windows still cannot do.

Both AmigaOS and BeOS are streaks ahead of desktop Linux, even today, and if their widget sets were upgraded, would blow Vista out of the water.

The problem with Windows is that as an OS, it has all flash and very little substance - instead of an integrated and functional system of services, Windows is a set of facilities that were mashed together like Frankenstein's monster; it works, but is not very nice to work with.

A true OS should just work, and should provide real solutions to problems faced by the users. Example, instead of anti-virus, we should have sandboxing and auto-threat evaluation. This has been possible for years but neither Windows nor Linux has bothered.

True OS innovation has stagnated and with Windows NIH syndrome, you won't be seeing much progress until a new OS arrives to dethrone it.
 
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