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[News] [Rival] Microsoft Fails to Spot Technology Trends

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Fails to Spot Technology Trends
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:06:58 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Don't bet on Gates' keynote predictions

,----[ Quote ]
| Before you rush to the edge of your seat Sunday, consider this: Gates is a 
| mediocre prognosticator. 
`----

http://www.bnd.com/business/technology/story/219045.html

'Smart' watches, tablets, Vista (hehe), and the end of SPAM... fine
predictions, no?


Related:

Despite filters, tidal wave of spam bears down on e-mailers

,----[ Quote ]
| "Two years from now, spam will be solved."
| 
| — Microsoft's (MSFT) Bill Gates, 2004, World Economic Forum in Switzerland
| 
| [...]
| 
| "I never said it would be solved," Gates said in an interview with USA TODAY 
| last month. "I said it would be substantially reduced, and in fact it has 
| been reduced a lot."  
`----

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2007-11-22-spam_N.htm?csp=N008


Bill Gates Likes To Lie About Vista

,----[ Quote ]
| Denial! C'mon Billy Boy, you know things suck in the land of Vista.
| Just admit it and we'll be on our way.
`----

http://crunchgear.com/2007/02/21/bill-gates-like-to-lie-about-vista/


Gates deposition videos

,----[ Quote ]
| Boies: Do you remember that in January, 1996, a lot of OEMs were
| bundling non-Microsoft browsers?
| 
| Gates: I'm not sure.
| 
| Boies: What were the non-Microsoft browsers that you were
| concerned about in January of 1996?
| 
| Gates: What's the question? You're trying to get me to recall
| what other browsers I was thinking about when I wrote that sentence?
| 
| Boies: No, because you've told me that you don't know what you
| were thinking about when you wrote that sentence.
| 
| Gates: Right.
| 
| Boies: What I'm trying to do is get you to tell me what
| non-Microsoft browsers you were concerned about in January of
| 1996. If it had been only one, I probably would have used the
| name of it. Instead I seem to be using the term non-Microsoft
| browsers. My question is what non-Microsoft browsers were you 
| concerned about in January of 1996?
| 
| Gates: I'm sure -- what's the question? Is it -- are you asking
| me about when I wrote this e-mail or what are you asking me about?
| 
| Boies: I'm asking you about January of 1996.
| 
| Gates: That month?
| 
| Boies: Yes, sir.
| 
| Gates: And what about it?
| 
| Boies: What non-Microsoft browsers were you concerned about in
| January of 1996?
| 
| Gates: I don't know what you mean "concerned."
| 
| Boies: What is it about the word "concerned" that you don't
| understand?
| 
| Gates: I'm not sure what you mean by it. 
`----

http://wincent.com/a/about/wincent/weblog/archives/2007/02/gates_depositio.php


Bill Gates Busted - Microsoft Lies to Press/Congress

,----[ Quote ]
| Bill Gates has been busted in a big fat lie and we've got the 
| statistics to prove it.
`----

http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/2/7/184312/5388


Talking Linux IP with Bill Gates

,----[ Quote ]
| Niall:
| 
|     OK. Two questions.
| 
|        1. Was Microsoft ever directly involved with the SCO Group
| in their lawsuit against IBM, either through BayStar Capital or others?
|        2. Why is Microsoft recently choosing to go after supposed
| patent violations with various operating system companies?
| 
| Bill:
| 
|     I don't know BayStar.
| 
| Niall:
| 
|     It's an investment company. One of their executives testified
| Microsoft invested $50 million to offset SCO's costs in the lawsuit.
| 
| Bill:
| 
|     When?
`----

http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2006/12/microsoft-linux-patents.html


The Fear biz is the computer security biz

,----[ Quote ]
| A few days later, I saw what Bill Gates had to say in a recent
| Newsweek interview about the Mac as compared to Vista.
| 
|     "I mean, it's fascinating, maybe we shouldn't have showed so
| publicly the stuff we were doing, because we knew how long the new
| security base was going to take us to get done. Nowadays, security
| guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come
| out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I
| dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine."
| 
| My reaction, like most knowledgeable people who read this, was
| open-mouthed astonishment. Now, either Bill is heavily drugged and
| delusional, which I don't believe, or he's just completely ignorant,
| which I also discount, or he knows exactly what he's saying and has
| an ulterior motive. That's my best guess.
| 
| Bill Gates knows that he's at best exaggerating and at worst
| completely lying through his teeth. So why's he doing it? Because
| he also knows that Apple's new ads are helping Macs to sell like
| hot cakes, and that security is a big reason why a lot of people
| are throwing up their hands in disgust at Windows and switching
| to Apple's computers.
| 
| Who reads Newsweek? Not computer pros, but Joe and Jane
| Computer-user, and Joe and Jane tend to believe what they
| read in the mainstream media when it comes to computers,
| especially when that nice, smart philanthropist Bill Gates
| is the one saying it. He's Mr Computer, after all, so he
| must be right!
`----

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/11/computer_security_fearmongering/


Gates Deposition Audio and Video

,----[ Quote ]
| Here is our local copy of the depositions of Bill Gates in the
| Microsoft anti-trust suit. We did our best to convert the
| original Windows Media files into an Open format, ogg. Your
| webmaster is responsible for the video transcoding, the
| audio-only files are contributed by a Groklaw member that
| requested to stay anonymous.
`----

http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=GatesDepo


,----[ Quote ]
| From:       Bill Gates
| Sent:       Saturday, December 05, 1989 9:44 AM
| To:         Bob Muglia (Exchange); Jon DeVaan; Steven Sinofsky
| Cc:         Paul Mariz
| Subject:    Office rendering
| 
| One thing we have got to change is our strategy -- allowing Office 
| documents to be rendered very well by OTHER PEOPLES BROWSERS is one of the 
| most destructive things we could do to the company.
| 
| We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office
| documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.
| 
| Anything else is suicide for our platform. This is a case where Office has
| to  to destroy Windows.
`----

http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02991.pdf


Bill Gates Blunder on Vista Pricing

,----[ Quote ]
| If you watched the above video you will recall that bill gates
| said that british consumers will not be paying more than US
| customers, and that any price difference is merely due to
| differences in exchange rate.
`----

http://www.digitalpunks.co.uk/fullnews/35/Bill-Gates-Blunder-on-Vista-Pricing.php/


Dark cloud over good works of Gates Found

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gatesx07jan07,0,6827615.story?coll=la-home-headlines


Is There a Shortage of U.S. Tech Workers?

,----[ Quote ]
| Speaking before a Senate committee earlier this month, Gates said
| that America is facing a critical shortage of tech workers. He
| recommended boosting the number of H-1B visas to allow more foreign
| tech workers into the U.S.
| 
| [...]
| 
| "I think that has created an environment where the population of advanced 
| skill workers has shrunk a lot in the U.S., because we just haven't created 
| a fair system," he says. "Where if you go to other countries, you'll find 
| national policy around broadband deployment, which creates a much more even 
| playing field for people of all income levels to learn by and work by."
| 
| "We did it to ourselves," he says.
`----

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/career/article.php/3667376


Study: There Is No Shortage of U.S. Engineers

,----[ Quote ]
| ...a new study from Duke University calls this argument bunk, stating
| that there is no shortage of engineers in the United States, and
| that offshoring is all about cost savings.
`----

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2111347,00.asp

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