The icon of the tech world will focus on philanthropy as the company he founded faces turbulent seas.
Comment: Like a pearl on the beach.
A sandy shore,
when the soft wind
arrives presenting
a sound and a
luminous torpor,
converts in a feast
the crying of a
swallow, going to
bed, and always
recalling the present
idea.
Francesco Sinibaldi
Comment: BILL GATES one of the human history shots WHICH left more of the effective foot-print on the rocks - on the books- on the electronic messengers AND made the largest civilization in Childs hand with open sky
BILL GATES ONE OF THE FIRST ELECTRONIC MESSENGERS AT THE END OF THE TWENTY CENTURY
AS NO RETIRING FOR MESSENGERS NO RETIRING FOR HUMAN MIND WHICH A FEW OF PEOPLES LIKE BILL GATES PROVED IT
WHEN BILL GATES EXITS MICROSOFT TO FOCUS ON CHARITY WORK THAT IS THE NATURAL ATTACHMENT TO BE AS NATURAL MESSENGER
Comment: I'm holding "The Plot to Get Bill Gates" I'll go through it again. Read pp. 328-9 and laugh out loud, but with the LOL comes a warm tug at our hearts at how the weirdos democratized the IT highway for the masses even way out here in the Philippines. If not for the weirdos, IT would have been exclusively for the economic elite. On December 7, 1978, I gave birth to my firstborn Nadja, now in Dubai cooking for Emirates Air. Hurrah !
Comment: It is my firm believe that the so called end of the ERA has ended with Microsoft is foolish too say the least. Yes it might be that Google is the next company to sore huge heights but Microsoft is here too stay just waite and see mark my words the future has not seen the best to come from MICROSOFT !!!
Comment: Got Linux?
Comment: Linux does your body good is just a propaganda campaign for the dairy industry. Gives you buncha gas. Drink Silk!!
Comment: HAHAHAHAHA Haterz this is funny how people spend other ppl's money with their mouth.lol
Comment: Zanax you're nuts. If Bill makes the money he should get to spend it how he sees fit. It is his money - every dime. The last thing this world needs is more government regulation on how people can spend their money. Yes, he's super wealthy, but where would you draw the line? The government controls you if you make $1B, $100Mil, $10M? The thing that scares me most about the US now is that many people seem not to look up to people like Bill Gates and aspire to be like him instead they spend their time thinking about how they should be able to take his money away and control it.
Comment: You are right:There is no entity that can force Bill Gates to donate one penny of his money by way of charitable contribution if he CHOOSES not to....HOWEVER we need to change that. And remember this is not about some common man having the right and freedom to do as he wishes, but an extreme wealthy man of extreme power that can make a great difference in how the world solves its problems. On your other comments, well one could go on and on in your inconsistancies. ex: a-typical opinion based on personal belief....come on Rametyn, you are doing it yourself. A suggestion: start thinking "how do we solve the problems facing us" instead of worrying about retaining the freedoms of the Giants with Power. Insults only produce reactions
Comment: I am stating fact, not opinion. If you want to point out the "inconsitancies" please feel free to do so.
I have.
Freedom is not CONSITANT with creating entities that can delinate what others do with the money they have made. Like is said, that is socialism. People have tried that system. It doesn't work.
Try studying history while you're at it, because you are abundantly bereft of knowldedge in this subject.
You see when you start down the path you are talking about, YOU have to remember--someone has to decide how wealthy is wealthy. Billions? Millions? What if some idiot like you decided people that made $100, 000 a year is too much? What if a man started with nothing, and then worked hard to become wealthy. Explain why he should be forced to take the money he worked for and use it to make a difference in the world. Freedom gives that man the perogitive to do so, OR NOT to do so. That is choice, and that is freedom. Because a common man BECOMES an extremely wealthy man does not mean that the world becomes HIS responsibility. They're are those who choose to be philanthropic, like Gates, and those who do not. Like I said, your open opinions in opositiion to the facts of economics, and how capitalist societies work make you look stupid. The more you bloivate your contradictions to what freedom means, the more you make that point for me
Comment: .The name comes from my favorite jeans: Zana jeans, then there is the film maker Zana making films for humanitarian reasons in India, then there is you who thinks insults are a methods of shutting someone down and using ridicule. Remember Chief Pontiac, who said these anglos use ridicule when I am begging for my starving people
Comment: Bill Gates did it not do it by Karma but by unethical behavior. It is the modern world; it pays to be lying, cheating and doing anything in order to succeed. He and the other outlandish rich have more power than many countries.
Comment: Zanax should take his own medicine. Outlandish? So you think cheating and lying yields unprecedented success? So, it's a bad thing that Microsoft positioned itself to be a denominator to many innovative, creative and problem solving numerators? And to think I was slightly embarrassed about my comments here on newsweek yesterday. IT IS NEWSWEEK!
Comment: Give the money to the impartial United Nation that know more than anyone or agency where the money is needed in order to help and done without any vested interest attached. (Ted Turner did so; he gave 1 Billion to the UN)
oh, the wanna be elite or true elite, judging according to spell check or not. in order to continue their hierarchal thinking and judgmental thinking
Comment: I have one word for you all-SpellCheck. No, wait, that's two words. Hell, where is that IE spellchecker? Never mind, I use Firefox.
Long Live Bill Gates, Vista, Microsoft Bob, Windows ME, and so much more!
Comment: Carlin was rich but not a Billionaire. Sure everyone has the right to buy or not to buy however in a monopoly that is extremely difficult to do. We do not have the FREEDOM to challenge the one's with unbelievable amount of power which affect each and everyone. The idea that only the selected few (the ones richer than many countries) have the right to make decisions on the fate of us humans and the earth is lopsided and does not afford solutions to our many problems.
Comment: Zanax: You have the FREEDOM not to buy his product. Get over it, if you want to be a free nation, you have to have money. Geroge Carlin (RIP) was also a rich man who used his influence and money for personal gain.
Comment: I guess George Carlin was right when he said something to the affect that it so frustrating to speak to the ignorant.
Whether he is designing to control the world or not, is not the point. The end result is that indeed he has a great amount of power over our lives. All Billionares have that power and we do not have any way to challenge their power since we do not vote for them. Just because you say he does not have to give away a dime is your perspective, it does not mean it is written in stone. The Earth is at a crisis and we need to reduce the powers of a few extreme wealthy individuals. His money, you say, but not according to capitalist rules, a company has to be non-monopoly, which he has broken here and in other countries. You say by whatever means, well that is what many who attained great wealth have said at the expense of all of us. Then you equate FREEDOM with making money. Freedom is so much more complex and underlining the concept is the idea of fariness and dynamic in its ability to change when confronted with a problem in order to fix it. ( You say moron, that is the tactic used when one is challenged and cannot reply rationally lets hear more from this voice of reason oops meant without reason.
Comment: I say moron, because you are diplaying a-typical opinions based on personal belief and not fact. Stop twisting the words. I never said I believed people should make money by whatever means--I said by whatever means in which he made it, it is his money. You see how that flew right over your head, and you construed it into a trite argument that had nothing to do with what I was saying. Socialism, which is what you are talking about, is not freedom. That we should supress the accumulation of the few, because it is not fair to the many, is a socialistic notion and not bound withing the constructs of freedom. Restraining the abilities of anyone is not freedom. You can't understand that because you're application of this knowledge is based on those who have, and those who have not. But if someone came and told you tomorrow that they had to decrease you earned income, because it was not fair to people lower down the ladder than you, I doubt you would make the same argument. Because, somehow, making too much money only applies those making incredible amounts of it. Everyone in a free society has the oppurtunity to do the same. That is what capitalism is all about. What you are talking about doesn't work. Period. Just look at how many socailistic societies exist in harmony today for frame of reference. Even Russia found the communistic lifestyle to be undproductive, and have since switched to capitalism. You want to be intelligent, provide cause and effect, fact based , components to your arguments, instead of just spouting off what you think.
Saying that you can become rich--just not too rich--within free societies is an oxymoron. Restriction is not freedom--and it makes no sense to say that someone can make billions--but after they do--WE should decide what they can do with that money. That he does not have to give away a dime is not perspective, genius--IT IS A FACT. There is no entity that can force Bill Gates to donate one penny of his money by way of charitable contribution if he CHOOSES not to. If there is tell me one.
Go back to college. Study economics. Learn the difference between Socialism, Communism, and Capitalism. Then come back and see me. You will find "freedom" is limited in the first two, much more so than the third.
See, I don't equate freedom with making money. It is the catalyst that provides a nonrestrictive means to make as much as you want. Deciding when someone has made too much, and then deciding to "reduce" them is restrictive, and therefore NOT synonomous with the word freedom. And if you actually followed the case of Bill Gates, then you would also understand that the court cases against him are over, and the merits of monopoly practice is now a redundant issue. He is still a billionaire, it is still HIS money, and he is still FREE to do with it as he pleases. That is a fact, not an opinion. And school is out.
Moron.
Comment: He's great, the Foundation is wonderful, Microsoft is on top of the world. But wait: As JJJJJ notes, the third world will benefit, and deance calls it straight up. Everyone's right -- it IS his money and isn't that just great and wonderful!
But doesn't he notice how many of his very own countrymen/women have been damaged by the loss of jobs to other countries (Microsoft)? And that the United States, his birthplace, his home, was the original source of his fortune? We bought in to his ideas and dreams. Still do, but throw us a bone!
Let some of us answer the customer service phones. I guarantee your US customers will be happier just to understand the conversation. That's customer service.
Let some of us answer the technical questions. After all, isn't the US the birthplace of most of the technology that built Bill Gates, Microsoft, and now, the Foundation? This might let a few of us keep our homes.
Comment: Zanax: I think it is time to take another dose. If you think Gates is bad, try looking up the other billionaires who got there money from their parents. Bill Gates is a generous man and if you want to give millions of dollars to a miserable organization like the UN, then go invent something. This is the US, you have that opportunity.
Comment: 35 Billion and counting! Imagine the lives Bill will save with this money. U2's Bono was correct for his acclaimation of Mr Gates.
No taxpayer dollars will be used, no inefficient governmental clerks wasting it, just Bill Gates, using his own money to help those in the third world. What a guy and what a huge gift to humankind. Thank goodness the goverment did not interfer with his business as it was growing or starting up. Get goverment out of the way and make ways for innovation and charity.
Comment: Gates. What a great man! Outsoursing jobs, bringing in unskilled labor and taking over smaller firms who don't have the money to fight back. What a true gentleman. Makes Seattle proud. What a waste of skin!
Comment: It's called capitalism zanax, and you are contradicting yourself. He is not trying to use his money to design or "control" the world. He is wanting to give money away to improve the quality of life for others. YOU forget, he doesn't have to give away a dime you imbecil. He chooses to. He could keep it all. How he made it doesn't matter. IT IS HIS MONEY> Just because he found away to emass it, by whatever means, doesn't make it yours, or the UN's, or anyone elses; and it is up to him to decide what HE wants to do with it.
You are one of the dumbest people, making the dumbest statements I have ever come across. You are arguing the point of democracy, then saying we should challenge those who become rich in our "free" society because we don't VOTE for them. That is absolutely moronic. It also shows the jealous nature of people--cause in the end--it just makes it look like you're madm cause he's rich and you're not.
If he has influence, it's because of his money. That's what money can buy. Sorry, but it's a fact of life in capital societies. He didn't start off a billionaire. He made himself one. If you want that kind of influence, then go out and make a billion yourself, then you can decide what to do with it.
Oh, wait. Scratch that thought. I just remembered--you're a moron
Comment: years ago i wrote to the foundation in hopes to get a computer for my boys whom i homeschooled. I still use it as a learning tool for them, they are Autitstic. I was so hurt by Microsoft for turning me down. I was so angry because- I know I qualified. I live in a poor neighbor,receive ssi for my boys and live in the projects. I never wanted anything fancy- just a learning tool for my boys. I dont think it was too much to ask! I learned to put some together and thats how we managed. I dont beleive in philantropy-charity or how Microsoft the company wants to help educate children! It is all lies!
Comment: There are many companies who change out their computers quite frequently, especially law firms and accounting firms. Get in touch with their Marketing Director -- this type of donation is usually done in exchange for a press release.
Comment: Democracy means all the people. Democracy lets say in Britain began with Magna Carter where the system was open to more people. (back then it was the merchants) the process continues in hope that even the ones without can be part of the system. Presently they are not. His money is made from our system and throughout. He has not only admitted to stealing the operating system at Harvard (which sets a unhealthy moral precedent) but he has also has used monopoly methods to achieve his goals. He is one individual, ONE, who has had enormous influence on how our country and world should be designed. He is one of the Billionaires that we do not vote for, and yet, they have extreme power over our lives. these Billionaires need to be challenged. They are not the guy next door that has some money and should be free to do as he chooses, they are powerful and determine our human existence and we have no say so.
Comment: I want to thank Bill Gates for making the computer and it's software. I'm one of the individuals who evolved with business machines from the old typewriter, to electric typewriters, mag cards, MTSTs, Lotus 123 and all that other stuff. I was amazed. Then came Microsoft, the Internet's information Superhighway, and the whole world changed. He set a good example, and has lived life on his terms. I'm sure he will to great things in philanthrophy as well. Besides, he's just a phone call away if his company should need him. Good Luck to Bill and Melinda as they travel on to the next phase their life's journey.
Comment: For Bill,
Never thought you would leave so soon ( a little shock !!). It is indeed a fantastic feat. Today I may not be able to write this without your softwares.
The world has many pioneers in software but few to match yours / microsofts.
There are freewares but still I see your software in use everywhere - every country.
Competitors come, competitors go, yours remain. Philanthropy needs you badly now !! Do a Microsoft on that !
I have been using software ever since I saw / touched a PC.
Thanks again, Have a great retired life !!
Sridhar Iyer, India / Dubai.
Comment: For Bill,
Never thought you would leave so soon ( a little shock !!). It is indeed a fantastic feat. Today I may not be able to write this without your softwares.
The world has many pioneers in software but few to match yours / microsofts.
There are freewares but still I see your software in use everywhere - every country.
Competitors come, competitors go, yours remain. Philanthropy needs you badly now !! Do a Microsoft on that !
I have been using software ever since I saw / touched a PC.
Thanks again, Have a great retired life !!
Sridhar Iyer, India / Dubai.
Comment: I've heard all the scuttlebutt about him but I still think the man is a genius, he is the Edison of the 21st century. Besides, brainy guys are extremely hot. And he gets a thousand points for marrying an average looking woman instead of a super model.
Comment: I have followed Bill since the time of the start of Microsoft, and the products that were produced from the company
were superior to anything else on the market even with their faults. I also think the Xbox and Xbox360 will survive
because of the way they are built. Remember Microsoft is a company not just one person and things change within the structure of a company after awhile when it gets to big to handle. Bill Gates is still one very smart person and lucky to
have been at the right place and time in information history.
Comment: has poster bearh heard of competition as the prefered behavior in a capitalist system. Not monopoly but competition. And also the phrase "the means does not justify the end"
Comment: Bill Gates should give it all away to some world organization, preferably the United Nations. To have one individual decide even philanthropically who should get the money is contrary to democracy and impartiality. Humanism is defined by the UN DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS.
Comment: To Bill Gates: CONGRATULATIONS! I think it's admirable that you will be dedicating the majority of your efforts toward philanthropy! To reply to the comment, it is ridiculous to declare that any one body should become the sole proprietor of the foundation's total funds. There are several worthy causes, organizations, foundations, and groups of people that could benefit from these funds; and without Bill and Melinda deciding together, any one organization with total control of these funds risks being corrupt. 3.7 Billion dollars is a lot of money, that wouldn't be there without the Gates, so let it be used to support causes across the spectrum, worldwide; instead of narrowing its support to causes through the perspective of an organization narrowed by its identity. Furthermore, Humanism is a CLASSICAL term, dating back to ROMAN times [revived during the Renaissance]. It denotes a philosophy where the following causes are heralded/supported: The Arts/Humanities, Education, Civic Duty, Individual Achievement, Progress. This funding is due to Bill and Melinda's individual achievements and should continue to reflect that, in the true spirit of humanism. These funds, therefore, should also support causes, as I said, ACROSS the humanist spectrum, not funneled into one area. And to the "comrade" comment, GET OVER YOURSELF. True communism, as true republic is based on the SAME classical model. It is only due to their skewing and becoming EXTREME that these philosophies are BOTH corrupt. Just as Hitler's notion of 'ethnic cleansing' was evil, so is an atrocity like the CIA's Operation Condor - [it's operation where military despotic forms of government were set up and supported by the CIA in order to "deter/stop the spread of communism" in South and Central America from 1973-1980's]. It is thanks to both of these despicable operations that heinous crimes and genocide occurred. The only difference is one was done sub-versively [Condor], and in the name of "national security"; while the other was purported in the FALSE AND SKEWED name of a philosophy it perverted. ANY philosophy perverted and taken to the extreme becomes corrupt, and evil.
Comment: Stunning - Comrade let us know how things are working out in your socialist or communist regime. Has it been the utopia you hoped it would be?
Comment: How is it contrary to democracy you moron? It's his money, he made it. How retarded to say, now that he wants to give it away in charitable measure, that he should have no say in where the money HE made goes. This statement is probably one of the dumbest I have ever seen in here. IT"S HIS MONEY! Something contrary to democracy is someone telling him what he can or can't do with the money he made. Explain where the freedom is in that?
Comment: Tell that to your taxman.
Comment: First off, this is for Mr. Gates, I truely hope you enjoy the rest of your life. You most certainly well desirve it. The brain power and talent you have is assume. Not to blow you head up to well because knowing you, you take things at strid like any good person would. You brought the world into the next century with style and grace. If not for you and your ideas, invention and dedcation I do not think the world would be as advanced as it is today. So YES GO enjoy the fruits of your labor. For we the people of the world have been enjoying it for years.
Now, for all you crackhead snub nosie babies who wrote negitive comments on this article and about Bil Gates. Over priced softwares? Ask your stupid self this. What would you be send this message on if Mr. gates had not been able to do what he did. For the price you pay for that software this man spent years and hours, and man power inventing. You think you can do any better "Noodlebar" Where is you software? No shun a man becasue he invented something and made milions. If that be the case what kind of care do you drive? You shunning the CEO of the car you drive becasue he made millions off you? Grow up. For the price we paid for a software that does so much and save all of us so much time we got offf cheap.
Comment: Bill Gates Is a S O B .. His Charity work is all a Tax write off !! I still hope he ROTS IN HELL. He should give the share holders back the money we lost, then whats left he can donate ! ROT IN HELL BILL GATES !
Comment: What a lovely sentiment. I would so much rather have a beautiful soul like you get your blood money than some child who is starving or dying from disease. You sir, restore my faith in humankind.
Comment: Yea, That S.O.B. is giving away BILLIONS of dollars, while the stock holders are left holding the empty bag ! I lost Thousands of dollars investing with MSFT, along with thousands of others ! Why doesn't he give us OUR MONEY BACK ! I HOPE THAT S O B ROTS IN HELL !!ALONG WITH HIS UGLER THAN HELL WIFE !
Comment: What are you the cooler ? I certainly don't want to go to Vegas with you! How in the world does one lose money investing in MSFT? I know the stock has been flat the last 5 yrs, but seriously? There are lots of "bad" stocks out there, but Microsoft?
Comment: Last time I checked, investing money doesn't always mean you make money. There are no garuntees. It is a well studied form of gambling and nothing else--and you can't lose what you don't put in. So, take some responsibility for yourself. If you hadn't invested it, you wouldn't have lost it. Not every stock makes money. That's an economic fact, not mine. Amazing how someone can willingly put money into something at THEIR own risk--then blame someone else for not yeilding them a profit. LOL.
Comment: This world is full of ungratefull people. No matter what anyone says, no matter what we are afraid to admit because we may have had our fair share of hatorade, no matter all the propoganda. Technology would not be this advanced if it was not for Bill Gates and the microsoft. It does not matter which OS you use, thats your choice but come on at least stop bringing sour grapes to the table. His buisiness ethics were not always the best but, tell me you would do different. Tell me Apple is donating anywhere close to the amount of money he has given to charity. Tell me withought microsoft the other OS manufacturers would creat such a wonderfull product also.
The man is great and their will never be a better well rounded genius in a long time to come. Look at sony struggling to keep up with Xbox. Wanna know why? Because though ps2 was a great system sony flooded the market with alot of crappy titles. And pls dont think i am even saying sony does not have good game title *cough* god of war. I am just saying they concentrated on mass production rather than quality. and now the only Nintendo is really competition, thats because nintendo had always been innovative and made quality their priority.
His charity work speaks for itself. This man may well be the man behind the new vaccine for aids and malaria. Atleast i know that though vista is missing a few screws, it is lots of fun to use and pretty neat with new features i love already. In addition the money i spend making this man richer will save millions of lives in the future if his funded research is successfull.
All in all i would like to say to you haterz grow up. The Os wars are now for kids and sour ppl who lost. Moving into the new age Bill Gates is the reason that some of u even can type ur comments over the internet. Its is only becuase he pushed Microsoft so hard that other companies are forced to deliver great Quality to us in order to survive.
BYE BYE BILL. I appreciate your contribution as a buisiness man and HUMANITARIAN.
Comment: Get a clue. Bill Gates stole or bought just about anything that ever came out of Microsoft. And if you think the XBOX is quality, talk to a red ring of death xbox owner. And if you think Vista is great, you are a rather basic user who likes "pretty" over "pretty awesome". All the innovative touches that were supposed to be in Vista never made it there. You're just used to crap, you've been brainwashed by crappy software.
Comment: And this is what i am saying in response to your sad cries. Who cares, you either step into the game when you are ready to play with the big boys. If you cant keep up then know your place. Bill is a big boy and he kicked alot of butts into their place. The bleachers are for people like you. Stop talking about the man like you coulda ever acomplish half of what he did. And i a computer sciennce major going for masters in IS i use all 3 systems Mac, Linux and Windows. Windows is my least favourite so be carefull cuz u dont know what u are saying i am not a windows fan i am just crediting the guy for changing the world
Comment: Philanthropist? You mean the guy that's been ripping us off for years with monopolistic practices and overpriced software? You mean the operating system that IBM created? All these creeps are the same through time....they all want to leave an image behind that belies the true nature of the beast!
Comment: Bill Gates rules. If it was not for the guy, we would be still working on a bunch of incompatible, incoherent pieces of crap software where 90% of the time would be spent trying to make a printer to work with a given piece of software, or recompiling the OS core.
Everyone can have an idea. Turning an idea into usable product is an entirely different issue. There is a lot of people whining about Microsoft, but you have to remember that was a time that MS was just another company. Anybody could have done what they did, if they had enough brains to do it. It is not like we were forced to use MS products in the 80s or 90s. We wanted to, because they were superior to anything else available on the market.
Heck, you can still use Linux and OpenOffice and C++ and MySQL and PHP if you want to. Its just the industry has moved beyond the geek-hobby stuff. Now we want reliable support, problems solved and service packs on time, so we can focus on our jobs, not on re-writing OS or dev tools for ourselves.
And with the programmers from India - that's BS. If you are good, people will beg you (quite literally) to work for them of a reasonable rate of $70 to $85 an hour.
Comment: Suggestion on Windows 7 - so you aren't doing a what can we do to improve the image after the fact -
1. LISTEN when someone says it is slow- compare it to XP (not Vista). I'm fine with it using more memory than XP but it better not consume one iota more processing power and it dang well better not thrash my drive.
2. TEST - don't just test on 8 Core 4 GHz liquid cooled PCs with 16 terabytes of RAM, test it on what most companies have - 3 GHz P4's with 1 or 2 GIGs of RAM (no more than 512 should be the footprint for the OS- people need to run apps on top of the OS). If it isn't faster than XP then you did something wrong. Sure you added more features but you should have been able to make it more efficient. Can you imagine if car manufacturers said - I added new features to the car this year so it requires twice as much gas and 94 octane. If you think that is bad wait until next year's car. It gets 1mpg and requires jet
fuel - but only goes 60mph just like your old car.
3. Don't force Windows 7 on us either. No more this OS only sales deals with the major manufacturers. If your next OS is good - people will demand it - you don't have to artificially create the demand just to boost your ego.
4. Maybe go to a more universal file system such as ZFS.
Comment: 8. Apologize as though your relationship depended on it. If any guy treated his woman like MS treats their customers you can be pretty sure she'd be gone. MS should stop trying to FORCE Vista on us ??? They know it is bad and yet they want to discontinue sales of XP!?!. If your clients don't want Vista don't make them get it. You can sell them XP - they actually want it, and it isn't as if you have to do a lot of R&D on XP it is a completed product. Can you imagine how thrilled car manufacturers would be if people wanted to buy their 6 year old designs still - that is some serious cost savings. Ballmer claimed he would listen if clients said they wanted XP - what part of 200,000 petitions, a class action suit, industry news reports, IT lack of acceptance, general buzz is escaping your notice? And what the heck is with MS on a decision - for about 3 weeks every other day was a different thing on the web - MS is extending XP sales, Ballmer says no, Bill says yes, MS sources say.
9. Prevent Ballmer from doing any more public speaking. You might as well ask Charles Manson to be your spokes person - it is now difficult to overlook Ballmer's false claims of the past, his sidestepping of questions and take anything he says as the truth. Bill was very clever and strategic. Ballmer seems like a manipulative bully. However even the robber barons of days gone by realized the tighter you squeeze, the more that slips from your grasp.
10. DRM - how does that help the end user? Even if it isn't the source of the incredibly bad performance of Vista - how is it helping the client? If it has the potential to help us - give us a choice or running it or not - make it a service or application. Did you ask for it in features you'd like to see in the next OS from MS? I know I didn't - pretty sure priority for me was FAST - they missed that by a long shot.
Comment: 1. Fix network copies (not patch but FIX) should be at least as fast as XP for large file copies and groups of many files.
2. Fix direct copies - should be able to copy files locally as fast as XP - (once again for people who keep saying MS fixed that, do some benchmarks - improving is not the same as fixing.
3. Always make what I want to do priority number one - you can adjust performance for background vs. programs etc but it still seems preoccupied - don't tell give a lame excuse like this app opened slowly or files copy slowly because vista does so much in the background - unless it is finding a cure for cancer in the background - what I want it to do is more important and that should be done with all due speed.
4. Make Vista take advantage of new hardware - not require it. Since XP many nice new things have hit the market - faster processors, more 64 bit apps, core 2 processors, great new video cards. Instead of leveraging the new design in hardware, Vista requires it just to run as fast as XP on old equipment - poor design. Vista should identify core 2 processors and install a version of Vista with better parallel processing code - so it runs even faster than a version of vista designed for a single core.
5. Examine all the Vista code for efficiency. Instead of heaping more code on top of the old XP code for certain tasks and calling it Vista - examine the code - make it more efficient. I'm not really a developer but my IT staff told me I would need a T3 to transfer the data in time for compiling so that the completed data reports could be ready for 5 AM order distribution - I came up with the crazy idea of just compressing the data before transmission and adding a decompress before compilation. Saved my
company a fortune and it really didn't take any fancy code - just rethinking the way you do things. Don't require 2 GIGs of ram and a super processor if the code can be leaner and more efficient. I can live with the additional memory more so than constant processor utilization to sit idle. I???ve yet to meet a good developer who didn???t review someone else???s code and find ways to improve it. If I???m writing a formal document, I often ask someone else to review it ??? always room for improvement.
6. Since MS is unlikely to fix Vista even with SP2, give a discount on Windows 7 to anyone with a valid license for Vista - it is the least MS can do for the victims. (if you read my other posts you'll know that Vista doesn't have to be slow as Server 2008 based on Vista SP1 is quite a bit faster than Vista SP).
7. Try telling the truth a bit more in the future. People immediately told MS and posted that Vista was SLOW. MS denied it -told users it was their firewall, antivirus or drivers that were the problem - are you telling me MS can't afford a couple of PCs to run comparisons of Vista vs. XP?
Comment: In the beginning Microsoft had great ideas AND was a great company. Now it is a big and rich company , its idea are exhausted, quality is rather low, its products are made by principle "fast and dirty." This is clearly and obviously a way down. Can Microsoft find new leading ideas and recover itself? harly so - to many things are to change.
Comment: fast and dirty? REALLY? are you excluding xbox and xbox live? What you utilize in lieu of Microsoft's products must be just amazing. Why don't you market it and show us what you got? or better yet, give it away for free. If it's that awesome, it'll catch on like wild fire. and when it does catch on, only take donations for support that is needed so some folks can get support for free, and hopefully the larger donations will offset the free donations so you can hire adequate talent that work for almost free FULL TIME. How they provide for their living beats me..maybe they're already semi-retired geniuses that are doing it for the love of it. Somethings can be a community effort, others have to operate behind a business model, and embrace a community effort where it sees it fit. OH, can Microsoft find new leading ideas and recover it self? Recover from what? Am I missing something here?
Comment: Yes, you are. But there are plenty of other people on this site that agree with you. That doesn't make you wrong. The fact that you are wrong makes you wrong.
Anyone in the industry (except consultants, that's how they make their money, you know them as Microsoft partners) knows VISTA is crap. Word is a Pig. Access is slow, even with technology theybought from Fox software. But you keep on believing.
Comment: I think Bill Gates is just one person in a zillion who we may never see the likes of again for another zillion years. His ideas have touched every person on the planet regardless of who they are since we are and will always be in the age of computers. I can't believe he is 52. If I were him, I'd certainly use my money and fame to better the world. Personally, I wish him well and hope he can contribute to the world the way he has to technology.
Comment: me too. I'm sad that I didn't make 1 Key notes he addressed in my field(yeah a bit selfish on my part). I hope he isn't completely retiring from public speaking.
Comment: they say those that can do "DO", and those who can't do teach. I'll gladly take those classes, minus the naysaying sessions. You want to find explointation of gullibility of the trusting American people, go to ascentive software's website. That's exploitation. I happen to embrace Microsoft's products and the key POSITIVE role they have played in uplifiting our human capital. There are a lot of haters in the world..sometimes the undeniable evidence in front of ignorance is well indeed overlooked, especially when the ignorance is driven by envy, greed and ego. There's nothing greedy about Microsoft. Perfectionism maybe, but not greed. I don't recall Microsoft having a .org, however a .org is associated with Bill Gates, no?
Comment: Bill Gates is such a genius. I wish that everyone would just leave him alone. The man has helped so many people in the world. I will never believe that the Gates era will ever end. The man will always rock on and he is one of my heros!!
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Comment: Wow. It's unbelievable reading the comments here. Clearly, some people don't have a grasp for how big business works or global scale philanthropic efforts, not to mention the fact about the fantastic amount of complexity involved in bringing an operating system to market. I am not a Gates fanatic, but honestly, if there was a company that could that just as well as Microsoft could, there would be a place for them in the market. Such a junior high mentality around here. Grow up people.
Comment: that was said VERY WELL!! I am a Bill Gates fanatic however, yet my opinion is unbiased..really.
Comment: Yeah, i loved my xp up unitl we got a virus and now we have a vista and that seems to have a problem with everything I do, even if Im not doing anything. Im kinda dissapointed in Microsoft for this. Even without Bill Gates they should be able to pull off a decent computer.
Comment: now looka here pin lady,,there no excuse to get a virus ,that aint bill gates fault .use a good anti virus ,,keep it updated ,,run xp firewall, keep ypu temp files aand cookies dumped daily ,,history too, and stay off them porn sites ,and dating sites ,,thats where most the virus come from,,dont open any message from anyone you dont know ,,delete -delete,, and you will never has any trouble,,
Comment: Microsoft has never really been about innovation. It has always been about copying and strong arm tactics.
Just because the financial world is impressed by a rich corporation does not make right what Microsoft does and has done over the last more than 25 years.
Even after copying and grabbing / and buying innovations of others, the products that Microsoft has produced have been substandard. This is evident from the posts below and from personal experiences.
Microsoft is an example of what a rich company can do with marketing and lots of publicity.
WE IN THE U.S. ARE BEHOLDEN TO BIG TALK AND FLASH OF THE DOLLAR AND WE ARE PAYING THE PRICE FOR THAT HAVING TO USE MICROSOFT PRODUCTS.
Bill Gates has enriched himself exploiting the gullibilty of the trusting American people.
But some of us know them and what they represent.
WHICH IS WHY BOTH HE AND BALMER HAVE BEEN THROWN FOOD AT.
Comment: Yeah, I really like that Pie in the face of Gates video. But I am surprised that's as bad as it's been. It's especially surprising because he's ruined so many lives and companies that worse hasn't happened to him. But then, there is Karma enroute.
Comment: The history books will tell us they he is the one single person who did more than any person to destroy the careers of American software engineers. His huge importation of Indian and other southeast Asian engineers to save money and make more profit was the major contributing factor of the decline in the annual number of awarded American computer science degrees in the past 15 years.
Comment: you're kidding right? Save money in exchange for qualified talent? I don't think so. I ran into so many backwards progressing software developers that complained how much work it took to stay right behind being ahead of the curve, here in the US. That lazy sumbi*%& attitude doesn't cut it when innovating. If you're on top of what you do in the software industry, YOU WILL HAVE A JOB!!
Comment: I am also a Microsoft shareholder and am disappointed in Microsoft. I have two computers with Vista, both downloaded an automatic "service pack" that really messed up things. I spent over two hours with tech support (was transferred 4 times) and didn't get it resolved. Is this Bill's way of doing business? or will things get better now? Lets hope so.
Comment: Gates created Microsoft in his own image - Paranoid Megalomania. He and Microsoft have done more to damage, delay, and deter the true potential computing than we can even imagine. Hopefully his philanthropy won't be as damaging - but it's really just the same megalomania turned to a different topic.
Comment: well,i'se tells ya ,,that windows xp sp2 am the finest operating system that ever could be ,never has no problems with it and been runnin on sevearl computers ever since it was ,many friends and asscosciates, now bill wsnt around much when they doin up vista ,,so we just stays clear of that one too, xp gonna be around a long time ,,too bad they couldnt tuned and tweaked it a bit rater than fool with that clumsey cow vista, dont know about sp3 yet for xp,, bill wasnt around much when they be doin that,so it may be not so good ither ,,,anyhow when bill there ,ever thin seem to just get better ,and better .95? it wasnt nothin compare to xp,, ike comparin a t**d to a cream pie,,
Comment: I've been a Microsoft shareholder the last 7 years, and can tell you that I have been underwhelmed not just by the company's stock performance, but with the quality of their products. So much so, that my last two computers have both been made by Apple. Windows Vista has been an unmitigated disaster, and Microsoft Money, which I continue to use on my iMac, has gotten steadily worse over the last few versions in terms of reliability. How can any company expect to survive when their new product is worse than the one it replaces? It reminds me of America's auto makers who kept pushing new iterations of garbage, and getting distracted with diversification and acquisitions. Meanwhile, the foreign competition kept taking away market share with better product. I for one will not miss Bill Gates' "leadership" of MS, and hope his successor understands that shareholders and consumers are quickly losing patience.
Comment: I think Bill Gates is one hellava individual. I wish I could have accomplished 0.1% of what he has done. Many people complain about him, but he has probably done more for humanity in the past 20 years than anybody else on earth. I respect the man. If these other jokers think they can write a better operating system they should go ahead and try, but I bet it won't fly.
Comment: Bill Gates is just a lucky ***. He was in the right place at the right time with the right people that made him. Since Dos and Win 95 he knows nothing about what people want in software and a computer. Win XP was just a lucky guess. Windows Vista is disgusting. Very Disgusting. Why should I have to give up my video card, sound card, scanner, and many other hardwardware and software items to run a slow, crappy, and disgusting operating system ? I want an upgrade in speed. I want my software to work. And most of all .. I DO NOT WANT TO MAKE THE HARDWARE COMPANYS RICH AT MY EXPENSE. Vista is a DOG and people should get their money back that bought it and went back to XP.
Comment: It is good to get rid of this ***. He was only in the right place at the right time and really knows nothing about computers and what people want ! He was OK with Dos and Win 95. After that ... Forget it !
Comment: He didn't create DOS. He bought it.
Comment: Ah must be nice to retire with a few trillion in the bank! Lucky guy!
JT
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Comment: Bill gates was offered the cure for malaria in 1996 and he declined to support it. The inventor of the cure (Jim Humble) has moved forward without Bill. More than 75,000 people in Africa have been cured of Malaria for a few pennies. What will Bill do now? Suppress this inexspensive cure in cooperation with Merck so that he can attach his name to something that only treats but never cures. There is certainly more money in that approach. The world will be watching Bill to see if he trully means to help humanity or just make more money. I realize that this comment will not be posted. So I have copied it to post at other blogs.
Comment: Just because Bill doesn't care about Malaria, or people, or being innovative, or other small companies does not make him a bad man. Just because he only cares about money does not make him a bad man. Just because his software sucks and he pushes it like drugs, and the EU thinks he has monopolistic ways does not make him a bad man. But add it up and it does make him a bad man.
Comment: It will be exciting to see how Bill Gates will yet again change the world for the better.
Comment: Bill Gates is an honorable man. He'll do more good in the next 5 years that than the first 50, but without the first 50 he wouldn't have the capacity to help people to the extent he is now...
Comment: now mista bill gates is fine man,,he teaches me everything i knows bout computer, i donyt know much ,but i still knows quite a bit ,if not for bill gates wouldnt know nothun,,bout computers ,he not teach me in person ,but what i learn is what was made by him, he created it all. smartest man in the world ,we respects him,, we wishes him the most finest!
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