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- slayerab, on 01/08/2008, -7/+33Of course Microsoft is an underdog, they bought the term and own the exclusive rights to use it.
- Waskonator, on 01/08/2008, -7/+25Definition: One at a disadvantage and expected to lose
- RogerStrong, on 01/08/2008, -15/+32Having been in the computer industry when it was dominated by IBM, I'm very glad that Microsoft is as successful as it is.
Having said that, I'll go back to Apple when they bring back the openness of the Apple ][, ][+ and ][e. I'm hoping that the "screw the users, we're locking everything down" attitude they've had since the Mac I is just a passing management fad. - norman619, on 01/08/2008, -2/+17How dare you bring facts into this?! Have you no shame?!!!
- stuntmaster84, on 01/08/2008, -1/+16Bill Gates scratches his head a lot.
- bluenullity, on 01/08/2008, -1/+14Where I'm sitting they aren't underdogs... Surrounded by MSSQL servers and Sharepoint servers.
- Digg90210, on 01/08/2008, -1/+14Bill was in the right place at the right time back in the early computer days, and obviously he's pretty sharp.
But it's hard to grow a company from 80 employees to 80,000 employees. Malcolm Gladwell's book "The Tipping Point" is a good read. It talks about 150 being a magic number -- called Dunbar's number: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
Beyond 150 people, it's hard to form a cohesive social group (Digg excluded :-). Even if you divide a company into departments of 150 people, Microsoft would have 500+ of these! A massive challenge!
This is another reason it's better to have 10 super-smart people than 100 semi-smart people.
It'll be interesting to see how Google grows, without becoming bureaucratic. - MeatBiProduct, on 01/08/2008, -6/+16More Vista installs than OS X and most Linux Distros so if you call that failure....
- EthylAdded, on 01/08/2008, -16/+26hasbeen != underdog
- CloseTheCode, on 01/08/2008, -5/+15Microsoft is too big to be an underdog, with far too many resources, in terms of both expertise and money. They will of course continue to face challenges, with some being stronger than others, but enough for them to be considered the underdog in the face of such challenge? Never.
- norman619, on 01/08/2008, -7/+16Wrong the reason they are getting slammed by people is the fact that they are so successful. Talking trash about MS is the popular thing to do. Never mind all the FUD most of the crap is based on.
- rudy23, on 01/08/2008, -4/+12they are a multi billion dollar underdog
- RogerStrong, on 01/08/2008, -3/+11Correct - when compared not only to Apple, but most companies.
Compare the iPhone with my Windows Mobile cell phone as a typical example:
There a wide variety of development systems for Windows Mobile, including an excellent one from Microsoft. The programming APIs are well documented on the web for all to see. And so there's a huge library of software - including free software - available for my phone. I can (and have) even upgraded it from WM5 to WM6 - even though my cell phone provider didn't release such an upgrade.
The iPhone on the other hand is notoriously locked down. You can't write for it, or install your own custom software. Those who have installed custom ROMS have had a tendency to have their phones bricked. (I understand this is changing - a bit.)
Then there's the supported document formats: My Windows Mobile cell phone will play MP3, MPG, AVI, WMA and WMV. With free software it also plays RealMedia, OGG, and a wide variety of other audio and video codecs - the iPhone can't touch it. And of course there's free document readers for PDF, Mobi, Lit and more. Another program lets me stream music from my desktop PC via WiFi.
Where the iPhone has ONE version of the hardware, Microsoft has licenced Windows Mobile to a wide variety of hardware manufacturers. There's consumer PDA/Phones from companies like HP, Dell and HTC, and more rugged versions from Symbol Technologies etc.
It's same story with Windows PCs vs Macs.
It wasn't always that way. The Apple ][ was open. The manual even came with a ROM listing and a schematic of the motherboard. - Nerfdude, on 01/08/2008, -0/+8gizmodo is writing a fluff piece about people picking on microsoft? that's cute, considering gizmodo is the biggest apple fanboy site on the planet.
- dn11, on 01/08/2008, -0/+8What are you people going on about?? Bill never says anything about being an "underdog" in this video. he's just talking about the ups and down of being one of the biggest corporations in the world. If anything he is talking about his rivals as the underdog. did anyone actually watch it?
- musters, on 01/08/2008, -4/+12You really don't understand what he is talking about do you...
- MeatBiProduct, on 01/08/2008, -2/+9thats ***** - it was in MFC and just complicated. Internet communication has been around since windows 3.x and easy to interact with and documented in MSDN. For 10 years you tried searching search engines instead of reading the book.
- fantasticFlan, on 01/08/2008, -0/+7Vista might be considered an underdog against XP.
- fallenone05, on 01/08/2008, -2/+9Sorry, he's married..
- Breepee, on 01/08/2008, -0/+7He's a diehard mac-head.
- inactive, on 01/08/2008, -1/+8At one time Microsoft was an underdog early in its History, and that’s what Bill Gates referring too. Why is this so hard for digg users to comprehend, and stop Being Microsoft and Apple fan boys.
- NCSUspoon, on 01/08/2008, -5/+11Short answer: No, Bill Gates is the richest man on the planet. By no means is he an underdog in any sense of the phrase.
- norman619, on 01/08/2008, -1/+7No way! Vista is full of prolems didn't you hear?
- inactive, on 01/08/2008, -0/+5You'd have to toss something under the table first.
- norman619, on 01/08/2008, -5/+10Actually yes. I run Vista Ultimate at home and Vista Business on my work laptop. I'm a network admin and a freelance CG artist. At work the AD network tools I use actually run FASTER than they do under XP. Vista has yet to crash on me. It's pretty damn stable. On my home PC I play games, edit video, edit photos, and do 3D modeling and animation. ALL of my games run great. Notice I said ALL not some. My 3D modeling and video editing apps all run flawlessly. Why haven't I run into the problems people like you always seem to cry about? It could be that I am not trying to run Vista on an underpowered system. My Vista install was painless and pretty amazing compared to my exp with XP installs. Vista actually found all my hardware drivers w/o any help from me. XP never was able to do this even tho you can tell it to look online for drivers. I have a LAN at home and have a couple of LINUX servers I use as firewall box and media server. Sounds like you aren't as tech savvy as you'd like us to believe you are.
- inactive, on 01/08/2008, -2/+7Underdog? Pshhhh Yeah right
- oldhick, on 01/08/2008, -3/+8Never had a problem with Vista.
- RogerStrong, on 01/08/2008, -1/+5And just what tech would that be?
Bill Gates saw the Xerox GUI, just like Steve Jobs did. An early version of Windows was given public demonstrations the year before the Mac was released. A mouse was bundled with Microsoft Word long before the Mac was released. - musters, on 01/08/2008, -0/+4ya I agree with you on this one, I think the submitter was just trying to rile up the commenters
- pcpimpster, on 01/08/2008, -0/+4It's a nervous twitch, i do something similiar with my nose.
- SiNN4R, on 01/08/2008, -0/+4I'd still hit it. If he tossed me a little money under the table.
- kwr007, on 01/08/2008, -1/+5Acutally no Bill Gates is no longer the richest man on the planet, Carlos Slim is. Hes valued at $59 billion while Bill is valued at $58 billion.
- CloseTheCode, on 01/08/2008, -2/+6"old money" stretches back more than a few decades.
- MeatBiProduct, on 01/08/2008, -5/+9I use it @home & @work and love it. Anything below Vista is old clunky junk.
- CloseTheCode, on 01/08/2008, -0/+4Perhaps it's itchy?
- MeatBiProduct, on 01/08/2008, -3/+6Seriously you're a ***** tool. If it wasn't for MS you'd be typing green letters on a phosphorus monitor.
The reason 90% of all personal computers use Windows is because its the better choice for the majority. Just like why 90% of people us iPods cause its the better choice for the majority. If you can't understand that you're a little cry baby bitch that lives in pretend land eating candy cakes with your gumdrop eyes.
Does OS X ship with Internet Explorer? So why the ***** should windows ship with Nutscrape navigator. There can be only 1 winner and when that winner isn't your team you need to suck it up and keep cheering for your team, not trash talking the competition. - pcpimpster, on 01/08/2008, -3/+6Considering i can write software on any Windows Mobile device compared to a locked up iPhone... Microsoft locks it source down but has the biggest library of first and third party APIs in the world. They have saved my ass on numerous occasions.
- norman619, on 01/08/2008, -4/+7@Breepee:
Care to share? I'm betting your problems were USER issues. - guy6600crazy, on 01/08/2008, -3/+6He didn't kill your cat. Nor did he invade your neighbour hood and destroy your home. He is the reason you are using your Windows XP, that too for free (pirated).. He is responsible for the Computer revolution that happened in 90's. Otherwise you would have been still using the Abacus. Stop following the "Thrash Microsoft, Bill Gates, Vista And become famous" trend.
- razor150, on 01/08/2008, -1/+4In a sense MS is an underdog. Partly because they are so big. They'll talk of a feature they'd like to add to Windows, and talk it up. That feature shows up in a couple of weeks in Linux and if it appears in Windows it is a few years later.
- jakem1, on 01/08/2008, -5/+8You can say more once you've actually gone out and used it.
- Loonacy, on 01/08/2008, -0/+3He's actually not the richest man on the planet anymore, although I believe he's still the richest man in the US.
- dn11, on 01/08/2008, -0/+3gizmodo might be apple fanboys, but to be fair, I don't see a lot of MS trash talking over there either - not from the staff. gizmodo commentators - that's another story.
- inactive, on 01/08/2008, -1/+4Why is it that i hear people say "Vista sux" but they can never seem to give a legit reason?
- MeatBiProduct, on 01/08/2008, -4/+7go run your 600mhz computers and leave the real programming and computing to the rest of us who know wtf we are doing.
You'll eat your words in 10, 25, and 50 years. MS isn't going anywhere.
The #1 Computer Operating System
The #1 Gaming Console
The #1 PC Gaming Platform
You need to get the ***** real and quit hitting the rocks cause your argument of Vista doesn't run on my 600Mhz computer is enough to make me laugh my balls off.
Guess what - my Xbox 360 games won't run on my Nintendo Entertainment System? I WONDER WHYYYY????????? The nintendo plays games!!!!!
Do you see how stupid your argument is? I never expected my 13mhz Tandy to run windows 3.x and you shouldn't expect a 12 year old computer to run an operating system built that far after its life. Your stupidity is writing on the wall. - RogerStrong, on 01/09/2008, -1/+4>> That access I'm sure gave them some intellectual property to be
>> monkey wrenched into Windows 1.0, which came out a year after the Mac.
Has anyone made the accusation? Anyone involved, as opposed to Mac fanboy conspiracy theorists making stuff up, that is.
>> Windows 1.0, which came out a year after the Mac
And was demonstrated to the public the year *before* the Mac. With Commodore, Act, Digital Research and others all producing GUIs at the same time. Sorry, but not only did Apple not invent the GUI, they had little influence on the others. The hardware for GUIs became available, and everyone developed one.
>> Imagine Apple giving up a major prototype to MS today
You mean like Microsoft regularly does for Apple? (And others, via public Alphas and Betas.) Gee, by your logic, that means Apple is ripping off Microsoft!
>> There was a whole string of lawsuits
Sure. And they proved to be without merit. Apple lost. - inactive, on 01/08/2008, -1/+4Let's face it though, the Xbox division made Microsoft in some ways cool again. I think Steve Jobs has just become a big douche and Ipod is not hip anymore, it's annoying.
- NCSUspoon, on 01/08/2008, -1/+4Darn, caught me. I was worried about putting the world, but oh well. He is still a pretty rich ***** eh?
- inactive, on 01/08/2008, -2/+5Why?
- MeatBiProduct, on 01/08/2008, -4/+7lol and i bet you code better - buried!!
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