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Jim Lynch from ExtremeTech wrote a rant collumn about Bill Gates leaving Microsoft, here are some parts:
Gates' operating system products were second-rate copies of more elegant, stable, and technologically superior products such as Mac OS, Linux, and Unix. Gates' retirement will be remembered as the beginning of the end for Microsoft.
And it's not coming a moment too soon. So much damage has been done by Gates and Microsoft that it will take the computing world years to finally escape their grasp.
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It seems that some writers have been bamboozled by Gates' "charitable" foundation and have decided to give him a free pass for his past sins.
Well that's certainly not going to happen in this column. Gates' predatory behavior, sheer ruthlessness and willingness to leverage his office and desktop OS monopolies to destroy his competitors has to be noted in any assessment of his career. He made the choice to behave that way for his own financial gain and for the accumulation of power and market share for his company.
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Remember everybody, Bill Gates is who you all have to thank for Windows and all the misery and unhappiness it has brought to your lives.
Bill Gates doesn't want to be remembered for what he truly is: A robber baron and convicted monopolist. So he's deploying his ill-gotten billions as he prepares to buy-off as many people as possible to create an alternative view of himself in history.
He hopes that future generations will hear his name and think "wow, what a great guy he helped so many people with his money." Gates prays that they will forget the employees who worked for companies like Netscape who lost their jobs and he hopes that the pain and hell that he has put ordinary computer users through for so long with Windows will also be forgotten
Bill Gates is no fool. He sees the hand-writing on the wall and he knows it's time for him to go and let the blame for Microsoft's decline and eventual demise fall on Ballmer's shoulders. Who better to use as a scapegoat than the clueless and often embarrassing buffoon Ballmer?
When the history of Microsoft and its place in the industry is written, Gates doesn't want to have his tenure there linked with the decline of the company. He wants to be remembered as the guy who grew Microsoft and made it "innovative" (well don't get me started on Gates' silly claims about Microsoft being innovative, that could be its own separate column about how absurd a claim it is).
Full Rant at source
Also read the comments in his Microsoft IIS powered forum
I guess he doesn't use Windows. :-)
He can also forget about getting any further interviews at Microsoft.
Personally, I never heard of him. So I don't give a damn what he says. Now if a *REAL* columnist that I heard said something, that would be different.
What a blowhard. So DOS is a copy of Mac OS? And yes, Microsoft copied Linux YEARS before it was even created...
Whoops... and you don't get convicted of antitrust. It's a civil matter, not criminal.
i have never seen a more blatant attempt to get ad revenue. apparently things are going so well at extremetech. Are they that desperate for hits?
Steven - why would you even link to this crap?
I am really surprised to see such a post on Bink, i have been on bink on daily bases for years now and this is the worst non sense I have seen so far !
Why is anyone surprised about what gets posted here? I suspect that this site is to only tailor to those with blind trust in Microsoft?
That's what I don't understand... those out there that see Gates as some kind of god.. that without him the world would remain flat and that the Earth would still be the center of the universe.
Facts are fact people.. live with it. Just because you don't like someone turning on the light to see the roaches scatter.. doesn't mean they aren't there!
Sour, blind hate.
How can it not be clear that standardizing on one OS has reduced costs for everyone? Imagine walking into Best Buy to buy Quicken only to find that they've written it for 10 of 20 popular OS's and yours isn't among them. Or you send a document to a friend, but they can't open it because they don't own the same word processor you do.
I respect success even though its vogue these days to hate rich people.
I am defending the right for people to speak their mind regardless of how others dictate they should.
But the person who wrote this article,.. isn't writing about how easy it is to open a .docx document in Word 2003 (without the converter pack).. or whether or not WoW runs better on Windows than it does on Linux. The person is writing about "HOW" MS was successful.. and even though most of us use these tools pretty much every day now.. doesn't mean that all of us have turned a blind eye as to how the company actually made it there.
Let me guess.. because all your games run on Windows.. and you've NEVER had ANY issues with ANY software.. or had MS EVER take your work and modify it for their purposes.. all those out there that have filed suit against them are just jealous?
Right......
And the people who search out any blog or news entry with a comments section that talks negatively about Microsoft is going to defend the article to the death just to have something to do.. Theres always another side to a story and trolls feed on it.
I see it as another MS hater trying to get attention. Windows does have its flaws....that goes without saying. However, what this guy obviously needs to realize that if Linux or Unix or Mac OS were to be as mainstream as Windows, they would be in the same spot that this guy puts MS in. Virus writers would have Linux, Mac OS, etc. bombarded with viruses and worms if those OSs were mainstream and not Windows. The fact is while Windows has issues, having a common OS has helped. MS has helped bring computing more mainstream. Lets all not forget its human nature to see the big and mighty fall. Also, there is also a lot of people that are just jealous of such success and it shows as hatred. The entire column is nothing but a bunch crap written to generate attention and more hatred for MS and to get people jump on the 'lets hate MS' bandwagon.
Whether or not you like it or not, Gates is a very smart/shrewd guy. Look at his age when he started the company. Apple just released the infamous Lisa [named after Jobs' daughter Jobs didn't want to be near!]. MS had really nothing going. But with his marketing savvy [and other things] Windows took off with Windows '95. Even before Windows '95 Apple fell behind Microsoft in the OS side. Why? You can install Windows on any Intel/AMD PC. Mac OS? It's overpriced Apple hardware only. Things would of been different if Apple allowed other hardware. I'd call that one of the biggest blunders in computer history. [BTW, get a copy of Pirates of Silicon Valley with Noah Wyle.]
cant a guy get a retirement without all the people bashing... i mean come on regardless of how he got us their, we've come further than anyone ever thought would be possible, i mean do you honestly think we'd be looking at one laptop for every child if it wasnt for windows pushing desktops as far as its been in the past.