wired.com — Bill Gates, we'll miss you. Not just because you're the ultimate geek-villain-pioneer-entrepreneur-monopolist.But because you've always been there for us.To love. To hate. To envy. To pick on. So this month, your last as a full-time Microsoft employee, we realized it was only right and proper to look back on your storied career.
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javito27Jun 17, 2008
big shoelaces
trollhammarenJun 18, 2008
Ah, classic. <a class="user" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN0K58EfJSg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN0K58EfJSg</a>
thesabreJun 18, 2008
Let me guess... you tried Longhorn beta 1 back in 2005 and you base your entire opinion of Vista on that. Right?
madm0nkJun 18, 2008
Why is it that nobody has mentioned Xerox (Palo Alto)? THEY were the ones to come up with the gui and mouse interface, early versions of ethernet, oop, postscript (which evolved to pdf), etc.
nekoJun 18, 2008
"July 1994Microsoft agrees to a federal consent decree, pledging to abandon particularly egregious anticompetitive business practices (such as requiring hardware manufacturers to pay for MS-DOS for every machine they produce with a particular microprocessor, even if the operating system isn't on it)."Wow. I hadn't even heard of this one. Like the blank media tax, but for processors that -might- be used for MSDOS? The Wow starts now...
cjflashmanJun 18, 2008
I was born in the early 90's, and the first system I got my hands on was a Pentium II and a Celeron at a good 533 MHz. I remember when that was the equivelent of a Phenom in this current time.I was born in the time of the OS Wars, but for christ sake I realized that an OS is an OS, and two companies are two companies.Come on, you people who prefer Apple or Microsoft (I prefer Microsoft and again, I have had a Macbook Pro for two months when my friend let me borrow it) wouldn't go to a supermarket and punch somebody in the face for buying Wonder bread instead of Earth Grain or something, So why a fricking computer?
smashhellJun 19, 2008
right ...... cheerybounce but you're wrong.Without Bill, computers wouldn't be nearly as popular.And if not many people use it, no one will invest in advancing transistors and making them economical.Heck ! Without Bill there wouldn't even BE a personal computer market. =_=
mrsjayJun 23, 2008
<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/politics/Proof_our_civil_liberties_are_already_being_violated">http://digg.com/politics/Proof_our_civil_liberties ...</a>
knowlteyAug 25, 2008
Alright, fine, he made them more "user-friendly" with the craptastic Windows, which drove more people to seek out purchasing them, making more manufacturers develop more for them and make them faster and better, thus making them more economical.