Microsoft After Gates. (And Bill After Microsoft.)

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.

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?

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?

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ah must be nice to retire with a few trillion in the bank! Lucky guy!

JT
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It will be exciting to see how Bill Gates will yet again change the world for the better.

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...