"The Internet? We are not interested in it" -- Bill Gates, 1993
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Bill_Gates
Today:
Gates: Internet Bubble Is Back
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| "We're back kind of in Internet-bubble era in terms of people
| thinking: 'O.K., traffic. We want traffic. We want traffic,'"
| Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said. "There are still some areas
| where it is unclear what's going to come out of that."
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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/OXeSW60uKg5mvA/Gates-Internet-Bubble-Is-Back.xhtml
Sour grapes, of course.
Ozzie: Vista, Office must adapt to Web era
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| Ozzie said that the transition to integrate online services into Microsoft
| products has been a challenge but that changes within the company are
| happening.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6133895.html
Also today:
Gates heralds the next revolution
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| 'I'm just sitting here, pulling up the information, showing
| it to people, and there's no paperwork, there's no old information,'
| enthused Gates.
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Other glorious predictions from the indisputable oracle:
TV will be shut in 10 years, says Bill Gates
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| Television as we know it today will become obsolete in the
| next 10 years, said Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
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http://bink.nu/Article8798.bink
The End of Auto Accidents?
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| According to Bill Gates, there will be no more car
| accidents within 10 years. This is a direct statement
| from the software giant himself.
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http://internetbusinessdaily.net/?p=29
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060316/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_gates
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| Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates sketched out a vision for the future
| Wednesday in which a cell phone will become a "digital wallet," able
| to receive e-mail and even scan business cards, while computers and
| TVs will merge.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060316/tc_nm/microsoft_gates_dc
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| Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates on Wednesday mocked a
| $100 laptop computer for developing countries being developed with the
| backing of rival Google Inc. at the Massachusetts Institute of
| Technology.
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Here are some from [H]omer:
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| I'm still waiting for his "eradicate spam" prediction to come true:
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| http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/24/gates_spam_death_prediction/
| http://cavemanog.livejournal.com/29316.html
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| Then there's this corker; "he also predicted that Microsoft search
| technology would soon outpace that of its rival":
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| http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3426367.stm
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| Or the classic "640K ought to be enough for anybody.", although he
| denies saying it:
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| http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
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| From that same page, I was delighted to discover that one of my
| favourite authors (Douglas Adams) shares my opinion of Gates:
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| "The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour
| to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly
| ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate
| technology, led them into it in the first place."
|
| Maybe someone as clueless as Gates should just stop making
| predictions, but then he doesn't always get it wrong:
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| "What is holding things back right now is software," Mr Gates said.
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| http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3426367.stm
|
| He got that right.
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