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- Bill Gates bids a teary farewell to Microsoft
- Bill Gates bids a teary farewell to MicrosoftHe didn't dieYou guys make it sound like he died. As much as I bash MS, I do admire what Bill did by founding this company and guiding it to do what it's done for the world. I hope the company well in...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, UNIX, Strategy, Bill Gates, teary farewell, farewell, Billg, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry Ford
- Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry FordDeservedly so. He is a modern day Henry FordLike HF, Bill Gates has truly made a historic impact on the high tech industry and his philanthropy work is already making an incredible difference.Good for him.Having said that, Microsoft has missed the internet boat...
- Tags: INTERNET, Microsoft Windows, Leadership, Strategy, Bill G, personal computer revolution, Bill Gates, Billg, Henry Ford, modern day, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- BillG sings blues over open standards, becoming obsolete
- BillG sings blues over open standards, becoming obsoleteWell, there's one open standard[pre]ASCII[/pre]And unicode. Other than that, none come to mind...I wouldn't say thatM$ adopted the BSD TCP stack for their networking. That was an open standard.I say never[B]Winblad carefully avoided commenting on BillG’s reluctance to embrace open standards but hinted...
- Tags: open standard, Microsoft Corp., Billg, sings blue, BillG sings blue, shorter list, standards
- Discussion threads 2007-09-28
- Gates plans his leave amid great change
- Gates plans his leave amid great changeGates forced out as US Antitrust RemedyWe do not tolerate barons and kings in the USA. What has happened to Bill Gates is not of his choice. Robber barons like him do not belong in our polite society. The USA was founded on this...
- Tags: Strategy, Servers, Billg, Bill Gates, Abramoff, great change, leave
- Discussion threads 2007-07-30
- Gates stepping down from full-time Microsoft role
- Gates stepping down from full-time Microsoft roleGates is preferable to BallmerGates is ruthless, but he's also intelligent, competant, dignified, and understands something about the importance of serving the customer. I'm not convinced Ballmer is anything but the first.I agree, though, that MS needs a major change in direction, but...
- Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, Operating systems, Linux day, Gate$, Microsoft Corp., Gates IS, Steve Ballmer, stock, Billg, Bill Gates
- Discussion threads 2006-06-15
- Gates looks to expand view beyond Windows
- Gates looks to expand view beyond WindowsDon't understand your thinking...Microsoft drives all standards and innovations in the computer industry. How can Microsoft be late to anything? More to the point, when Microsoft adopts something, that means it is ready for prime time. So for example, tabbed browsing in Firefox was...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Novell Inc., Billg, multi-core processor, Microsoft Corp., AJAX, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2006-03-20
- MS Office chief responds to my post on continuous improvement
- Steve Sinofsky, senior vice president at Microsoft for Office, responded in a Talkback to my post to BillG about making some of the interface improvements available now rather waiting until Office 12 ships in late 2006, or 2007 if it slips.Hi Dan,I hear you and we are super commited to...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Steve Sinofsky, Billg
- Blog posts 2005-09-13
- Linux entrepreneur tries again
- Linux entrepreneur tries againLinux entrepreneur tries againSorry, but I wouldn't trust anything this guy does. Just look what he did with VA Linux. THey nearly went bankrupt and lost millions of dollars. No vision means no future.I predict total failure...This guy is an obvious fraud. First he gets...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Entrepreneurship, Operating systems, Strategy, VA Software Corp., SteveB, Billg, Linux, information technology
- Discussion threads 2005-08-16
- That's rich: Gates tops Forbes list once again
- That's rich: Gates tops Forbes list once againWhat do you need 48 Billion for?Honestly why? What can do with it? I can't see much good for it for 1 person. Sure a Million is nice and I could spend it pretty quick. 100 Million and I've have to work again,...
- Tags: Investment, Microsoft Corp., Billg, Forbes
- Discussion threads 2004-09-24
- The rise of Sun services
- The rise of Sun servicesServices around dead platform??Solaris is completely dead, destroyed by the scalable, secure and robust Windows Server 2003 platform. The only service I can see one offering around Sun is migration to Windows. Microsoft's brilliant move to settle with this non-innovator of a company was strictly done...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, Servers, Microsoft Corp., Billg, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris
- Discussion threads 2004-04-14
- Microsoft plans to work on cash pile
- Microsoft plans to work on cash pileYou must be confusing them with Sun."It gets the monopoly thing off of Microsoft's"They don't seem to be worried about it."do actual investing"$6.2 Billion in R&D IS investing. Buying out Great Plains IS investing. Producing the XBox IS investing. (Get the...
- Tags: Linux, Desktops, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Billg, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2004-02-26
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- Bill Gates bids farewell
- Bill Gates bids farewellHe brought a lot to the computer world!Yeah, vicious predation, greed, and arrogance.iMiss BilliWill miss Bill. He brought a lot to the computer world!Bill Gates bids farewellA fine speech from a magnificent man! He had visions, he had missions, he had it all! The IT...
- Tags: Strategy, Microsoft Windows NT, Bill Gates, Abramoff, Preston Gates, vision, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- Do you need to be a programmer to run a software company?
- Do you need to be a programmer to run a software company?It's back to square oneIn fact, the new Internet-based platforms (Google App Engine, Microsofts upcoming platform to complement SSDS) are creating an entirely new platform. This change is as profound as the change in the early 80's. To succeed...
- Tags: Development tools, programmer, software, software company
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- Do you need to be a programmer to run a software company?
- Joel Spolsky, the CEO of Fog Creek Software -- and a one-time member of Microsoft's Excel team back in the early 1990s (Microsoft's "glory days") -- has a really great look back at the significance of the famed "BillG" reviews. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Software, Bill Gates, Programmer, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- Gates+explains+why+Microsoft+needs+Yahoo
- Gates+explains+why+Microsoft+needs+YahooGates explains why Microsoft needs YahooGates always has a good vision and plan of the future. This vision of Microsoft acquiring Yahoo will help them tremendously. Although they do not have to fear losing any of the Yahoo engineers. A lot of those guys are top...
- Tags: Research & Development, Yahoo! Inc., R&D, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-20
- Ballmer%27s+swan+song
- Ballmer%27s+swan+songBetter keep your tin hat onI thought you would have had enough from the last blog you did on this.Anti-Trust Oversight / Kibosh?[url=http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206100319]FYI[/url]Google needs the competitionGoogle needs some good competition. I'm not sure if this will result in true competition for Google, but it's not a bad thing.Having said that,...
- Tags: Western Civilization, World of Warcraft, Internet, Microsoft Corp., Ballmer%27s+swan+song, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- Gates: Curtain call for crystal ball
- Gates: Curtain call for crystal ballI say, goGates, Ellison, McNealy, lightning rods of controversy and fighting whereas the industry could have been something different and mostly better, IMO, without any of them or their ways and means.Link to video doesn't appear to be workingTried it in FF and IE; neither...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), 64-bit, Strategy, Processors, Curtain, Gates IS, Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-07
- Five reasons why the Bungie-Microsoft split is a smart move for Microsoft
- Five reasons why the Bungie-Microsoft split is a smart move for MicrosoftI think you need ritalin, and a refresher on the caps lock key. nt.You're not Mike Cox, 0.0 NTNTRE: Five reasons why the Bungie-Microsoft split is a smart move for MicrosoftOMG THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER. OH EM...
- Tags: Games, Bungie, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-05
- BillG sings blues over open standards, becoming obsolete, Winblad says
- Venture capitalist Ann Winblad said open source and open standards has made life tough for Microsoft's co-founder and other kingpins that used to rule the software industry. "The beauty of the software industry today is that not one, two or three companies that control the agenda. This...
- Tags: Software, Open Standard, Bill Gates, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-09-28
- Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee Unplugged: Semantic Web better than APIs for data access
- Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee Unplugged: Semantic Web better than APIs for data accessEven when referred to as 'Sir', I bet...He's more gracious than the other BillG, and should go down in history as the real innovator of our times IMO.Linked Data - a clear value of the Semantic WebIt was...
- Tags: Semantic Web, Linked, Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee Unplugged, data access, API, Web
- Discussion threads 2007-06-06
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