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- Cupantae, on 01/09/2008, -0/+11Buried you first!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- inactive, on 01/09/2008, -10/+20Every time I see Bill Gates I want to give him a wedgy.
- techweenie, on 01/09/2008, -3/+10Every once in a while Bill tries to be a "visionary."
He asks his PR team to write him a vision.
This one is as lame as all the prior ones.
Gates has always and forever had only one vision: your money moving to his pocket
Buh bye. - crackedplastic, on 01/09/2008, -0/+7Use Adblock. Problem solved.
- EntropyFan, on 01/09/2008, -4/+10No big company does. Apple had to buy Coverflow. Hire someone else to come up the the iPod wheel. Christ, their OS (OS9 and previous, that they created) was such a staggering piece of ***** not even they could make it work, and had to cut and paste FreeBSD.
If you want invention or innovation, look to small companies. The tech giants just copy, buy, and consolidate. - Medusausi, on 01/09/2008, -0/+6LOL. I'm with you on that. It's obvious that BG didn't think about user-centricity before putting Vista out.
- aiten, on 01/09/2008, -0/+5I see a world market for maybe... 5 Computers.
- bcamp1973, on 01/09/2008, -0/+5Actually, neoform is right. Mr. Gates, although a wonderful person for his philanthropy, is HORRIBLE at predicting the future. Steve Ballmar...as annoying as he is...is really the engine behind getting Microsoft to where it is today...
- Berkana, on 01/09/2008, -0/+5"There is nothing holding us back from going much faster and further in the second digital decade."
Hmm. How about Peak Oil? A collapse of the dollar's value and the crash of our economy? - adamrgolf, on 01/09/2008, -0/+5http://www.amazinganimal.co.uk/wedgy-p-1224.html?c ...
- catalysis, on 01/09/2008, -7/+12Yeah he was way off on that whole windows thing.
- VenTatsu, on 01/09/2008, -1/+5Success != foresight
Gates and Co. have always been good at picking a successful strategy. On the other hand he has also been good at producing laughable predictions and grossly missing technology trends.
Two examples:
First, in the 80s he was quoted as saying 640k should be enough for any one, referring to the limit DOS had of only allowing a maximum 640k of memory at that time.
Second, in the mid 90s he re-released a recently released book about the future of the technology industry so that he could include a chapter about the Internet.
In both cases MS managed to drastically miss the trends of the technology industry. However his business sense mitigated that damage done and allowed him to realign his company to the new trend quickly.
Bill Gates is a businessman not a technologist, people listen to his views on technology not because he's right, but because even when he's wrong his views have a dramatic impact. - aiten, on 01/09/2008, -2/+6Nobody will ever need more than 640k of RAM.
- GeorgeStone2, on 01/09/2008, -8/+12We will listen to you when your technology company has made hundreds of billions.
- cbreaker, on 01/09/2008, -0/+4I sent feedback about it to digg's feedback e-mail address, and they replied saying they were working on removing it. It's probably something they have to work out with an advertisement vendor or something.
- wyrdness, on 01/09/2008, -4/+8Which was copied from Apple. Most of Microsoft's 'innovation' is from copying others. MS-DOS, Windows, XBox, Zune etc. They hardly ever do anything really revolutionary.
- winmywii, on 01/09/2008, -1/+5How many times can he predict the same exact thing? The important thing to find out is who won the Guitar Hero III battle?
- devoss, on 01/09/2008, -0/+4I'm already in my 3rd.
- cdawzrd, on 01/09/2008, -0/+4That's the most nebulous prediction I've heard in a while...
- arduenn, on 01/09/2008, -0/+3There will be no more spam by 2006.
- lookingatlife, on 01/09/2008, -1/+4Its about time they think about being "user centric"
- diggernaught, on 01/09/2008, -0/+3And it will take another digital decade to figure out why they shouldn't change their OS's UI and bloat it immensely every revision. But by that time they will be a thing of the past. Fools
- vofuse, on 01/09/2008, -2/+5Great predictions. Maybe they'll all come true and make up for him missing the boat on that whole Internet thing.
- thal3s, on 01/10/2008, -0/+2Why does anyone listen to a word this dipwad says. He's NEVER been right about anything in 30 years.
Just because he headed a monopoly does not in any way make him an expert at anything. - jhails, on 01/09/2008, -3/+5Bill Gates is a smart guy who has accomplished much but his visions for the future of technology have always been lacking.
Anyone remember the "The Digital Road Ahead"
Stick with the Gates Foundation Bill. Thats the future for you. - EdgeOfEpsilon, on 01/10/2008, -0/+2In related news, The Pirate Bay issued a press release today welcoming Microsoft to 2004.
- guidewire, on 01/09/2008, -1/+3I think the only thing holding the "second digital decade" back will be the lack of energy to power those systems.
- regularsteven, on 01/09/2008, -0/+2Seriously - the headline - is he going to be anything other? Imagine, Gates, "Yeah, thats about it.... I guess, what do I know?"
- inactive, on 01/09/2008, -3/+4What? Was he supposed to wait around for others to catch up??? This is business. Survival of the smartest is the motto for this century.
- smek2, on 01/10/2008, -0/+1And companies who deliberately holding it back to maintain their market monopole.
- jsd8cc, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1Heh, there's an OLPC behind him.
- toxicityj, on 01/09/2008, -3/+4 There were mp3 players before the iPod, there were smart phones (superior ones) long before the iPhone. They bought software to use as their own (itunes). They bought out technology developed by other companies. They're just as "innovative" as MS is.
And while MS's creation of the first Windows is often scrutinized, Windows has become its own thing that continues to innovate computer use to this day. and the xbox isn't innovative? Really? because the xbox definitely established the whole purchasing games and media from your console thing. And created the first successful united online play system. And don't even get me started on the Zune. - smek2, on 01/10/2008, -0/+1You mean the Gates Foundation who invests in companies whose acts directly opposing the motto and what the foundation officially stands for? Like his company, this foundation is hypocrite.
- toxicityj, on 01/09/2008, -1/+2I guess I'm the only person that likes Ballmer. Enthusiasm like his is rare these days amongst "the big guys" in companies these days.
- neoform, on 01/09/2008, -1/+2Selling 1 product does not make you have vision for the future.
- smek2, on 01/10/2008, -0/+1Shut up Billy Boy. You and your company deliberately hold back true innovation for your own greedy schemes. Shut up and go away already.
- nicnic77, on 01/09/2008, -1/+2Information Age Two Point Zero /groan
- superrcat, on 01/09/2008, -0/+1Did I miss the first? I thought this was supposed to be the future.
- smek2, on 01/10/2008, -0/+1And how do you think they made their gazillions of buck? By innovation?
- Yage2006, on 01/10/2008, -0/+1Nothing but data limits and high prices of course.
- lademic, on 01/10/2008, -0/+0Don't do it, he'll give you a wet willy back! He's the coolest nerd of all time! http://www.jisto.com/?j=nlap6
- inactive, on 01/09/2008, -3/+3Congratz on your new found Internet fame!
lucky bug.. - Zolk, on 01/09/2008, -7/+7Yes, Bill is right. I can't wait to see what Google and Apple come up with.
- neoform, on 01/09/2008, -9/+9Being a brutal and predatory businessman does not make your thoughts insightful.
- EdgeOfEpsilon, on 01/10/2008, -1/+1Nice troll. Apple bought NextSTEP, which used some of the FreeBSD userland tools, but was mostly original work on the part of NeXT. Much cleaner libraries than anything in the Windows world, to boot.
Apple hired someone else to *manufacture* the click-wheel. Big difference.
Coverflow? Ugh, worst idea ever. Why they put it in the Finder is beyond me, other than to show off their new everything-gets-previewed thing. Tech demo, not usability decision.
I agree with you that OS 8/9 was a POS, but at least get your facts straight. - neoform, on 01/09/2008, -16/+15Gates has never been right about ANY of his predictions. Can we please stop listening to his crap?
- Claverhouse, on 01/09/2008, -1/+0It's still as vigorous as ever in la Cosa Nostra.
- entrophize, on 01/09/2008, -3/+2Wow so in order for me to predict the future all I need to do is found a multi-billion dollar software company?
Who knew? - inactive, on 01/09/2008, -4/+2lol guess that why he retiring would be harder to steal from others:))
PS: the retiring thingy from CES http://www.clipta.com/play?v=deddf63c1684a3b6d0c5 - GeorgeStone2, on 01/09/2008, -5/+3Then why is the 360 the biggest selling game console?
Why is Windows on 92% of all PC's?
Come on now. -
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